OSX Complete skin v0.10.0

[rbg08]

OSX Complete skin v0.10.0

Thanks to the many who contributed ideas/suggestions and a special thanks to Juni, who's graphics/icons are used extensively in this skin! I've included some of these ideas into the newest version of OSX Complete.  I added permanent Battery, Memory, and Storage meters to the bottom border of the main display section.  Thanks to the new if/else statements, this skin can check which memory cards are inserted (if any) and adjust the display accordingly.  I have made the Main page open by default with the current month's Calendar displayed to the right of the date.  When the new meters are tapped, the calendar is replaced by the meter's details.  The RSS section now supports Auto-Scrolling and I've disabled online/offline links for Yahoo pages (those pages don't link properly).  The Weather display on the Main page and in the Weather section shows Current Conditions if the TP data has been refreshed recently.  Otherwise, the current day's Forcast is displayed in its place.

Features:
- Weather for 3 cities
- 9 News feeds including a Stocks page
- 2 Month Calendar with Agenda Advance function
- System meters for Battery Memory, and Storage Memory
- QuickLaunch icons for 20 applications
- Launcher pages for 33 additional applications and 9 games
- Main page displaying Today's Date, Weather, last time Updated, and current month's Calendar
- World Timezones (both analog and digital)
- Agenda, Tasks, and Countdown displays
- Both main and Agenda sections can be collapsed

*Edit: this version is no longer available. Please download my latest version of OSX Complete skin.

[dhpss]

You are so quick!

Great addition of one month calendar in main region   . However, you might want to add the calendar header: S M T W R F S on the top.

color,font,-1_4_-1
calendarheader,153,9,12

I like the battery bar as well....
I am switching back to OSX now....

[rbg08]

Great addition of one month calendar in main region   . However, you might want to add the calendar header: S M T W R F S on the top.

Thanks!  I tried adding the header originally, but it wouldn't fit without looking really squished.  Besides, I figure most people use calendars often enough that they don't even bother to look at the day headings anyways.

[srs]

Hey rgb08,

great work on the skin  

two issues I noticed:

1)  the rss indicator of the number of pages (1/9 etc)... the 9 seems to be hardcoded.  (text,35,1,/9,r).  I think perhaps

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text,35,1,/%var28%,r might be better ?

2)  clicking on rss titles does a full rerender.  I think this is probably an oversight, as its not needed here.

other than those two minor issues, its working perfectly

[adbosch]

I've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?

I still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?

[dhpss]

I've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?

I still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?

Same problem here with either Calendar or OSX skin. Shortcuts seems be be an issue with V10? frequent freeze/soft reset. Please advise!..Back to V9 now..

[rbg08]

two issues I noticed:

1)  the rss indicator of the number of pages (1/9 etc)... the 9 seems to be hardcoded.  (text,35,1,/9,r).  I think perhaps

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text,35,1,/%var28%,r might be better ?

2)  clicking on rss titles does a full rerender.  I think this is probably an oversight, as its not needed here.

Thanks, srs.  The first issue was an oversight that I've now fixed on mine and will be included in the next iteration.

The second issue was intentional.  Previous versions of my skin could only manually update by tapping the RSS titles or the update time on the Weather forcast page.  Now that I've included a refresh button, this is no longer needed.  But I'm still use to tapping those areas when I want to update (creature of habit ), so I left them in for the time being.

[rbg08]

I've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?

Not sure why it is causing you problems.  In my Logika skin, I use shortcuts to links in the \Windows\ directory without any problems.  Make sure you are defining the whole shortcut name in the config.txt file as "apps-(x)-(y)" and not "apps-(x)".

I still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?

Yes, just erase the following code from the top of the skin file:

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// BEGIN ON MAIN PAGE
initregion,8,0
initregion,7,1
initregion,0,500
initregion,5,0
initregion,1,0

[srs]

actually I meant this line:

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RSS,title,18,14,207,12,%var5%,,,
button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,-1
button,15,14,210,12,-1,6,var4=%var5%


the

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button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,-1


could be changed to

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button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,0


or were you using these for updateing also ?

[rbg08]

Okay, now I see what you were talking about.  I copied that code from my Logika skin where I have to use a full-redraw because the background images for the RSS buttons extend above the region they are in.  You are right that I don't need a "-1" in this skin.  Thanks!

[ya1950]

rbg08

Here's a modification (with a few more bugs to work out) of your skin with arbitrajeu's battery/storeage region, fishboy's launcher, juni's and lightman's WA graphics. Just wanted to share what the rest of us can do with the great work you guys are turning out. I'm not able to create like you guys but I can do a mean cut and paste  

Thanks a lot to all of you guys and especially to srs. This is a great program and a lot of fun besides!

[Nielsracing]

rbg08

Here's a modification (with a few more bugs to work out) of your skin with arbitrajeu's battery/storeage region, fishboy's launcher, juni's and lightman's WA graphics. Just wanted to share what the rest of us can do with the great work you guys are turning out. I'm not able to create like you guys but I can do a mean cut and paste  

Thanks a lot to all of you guys and especially to srs. This is a great program and a lot of fun besides!

This one looks very very good.
Where can I download this skin file?

[ya1950]

Nielsracing
These types of modifications are really trivial and based on other people's hard work. I posted primarily in appreciation of rgb08's and other's efforts and secondarily because I thought it was kind of neat how many other plugins can be duplicated and replaced by Today+. Actually esthetically I prefer rgb08's original. This one is too cluttered for my taste.

Take a look at the latest skin by arbitrajeu and the tab launcher by fishboy. Trying to insert the correct parts into rgb08's skin will teach you a lot about the program and give you a healthy appreciation for other's programing skills. If you run into trouble post in the help section and I'll be glad to help.

ya1950

[Nielsracing]

Nielsracing
These types of modifications are really trivial and based on other people's hard work. I posted primarily in appreciation of rgb08's and other's efforts and secondarily because I thought it was kind of neat how many other plugins can be duplicated and replaced by Today+. Actually esthetically I prefer rgb08's original. This one is too cluttered for my taste.

Take a look at the latest skin by arbitrajeu and the tab launcher by fishboy. Trying to insert the correct parts into rgb08's skin will teach you a lot about the program and give you a healthy appreciation for other's programing skills. If you run into trouble post in the help section and I'll be glad to help.

ya1950

Hello,

Yes you are right, rbg08 did a great job making this skin. But I thought that your modified skin was ment to download for people like me, but I was wrong about that. Sorry.
I will change the (very very nice) skin from rbg08 with a tab launcher from fishboy) and I'm glad to see that you're offering your help.

[ya1950]

Nielsracing
No problem. Hint #1: find the quicklaunch section in rbg08's skin - that's where I put fishboy's launcher. Make sure to update the config file as well with the proper shortcuts. If you get ambitious you could even change fishboy's shortcuts to the new naming conventions that rgb08 uses in his skin.