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UnforgivenRevival — BlackBar V1.0
Published: 2012-07-23 03:15:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 14689; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 1458
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BlackBar: Version 1.0NOTICE: NEWER VERSION HERE >>>[link] <<<
Semi-taskbar replacement
Tabs autohide after x seconds(Set in settings) 20 second default
Many options can be changed in Settings!
Includes all the following(In order left to right):
Start button(Includes both the windows logo and a mac apple, Set in settings)
Tasklist for open windows
Show/hide Desktop button
Config button
Time and date
System Info
Network Info
Drives Info
Weather
Shortcuts
Web links
Feeds(Facebook and news)
Music player
Systray launcher
Gmail launcher and notifyer
Volume control
Brightness control
Power information
Shutdown options
To Set up the weather:
You can go to weather.com and find your location code in the address. itl look something like USNY5136. enter that into the weathercode option in settings. Unit options are M- for Celsius, and F- for Fahrenheit.
To set up the audio player:
Under 'Player' in the settings, change to your default music player. Options are: AIMP, CAD, iTunes, WLM, MediaMonkey, Spotify, Winamp, and WMP.
To set up HDD and CPU Temps:
You need a free program called Speedfan. you can change the unit to C- Celsius or F- Fahrenheit. then set your range your Temperatures are going to be in, Usually itl be a good 30 or 40 degree range.
Credits:
Vclouds2 for weather icons
AvernusTriad for click sound and some icons
Taskbar background and 'popup' images made by me.
Comments appreciated!
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Comments: 49
Never mind I got iTunes to work!
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Weather codes arent working, and Speedfanitself wont work. Speedfan says "No display found!" a few times and then freezes. I also Dont understand what to do for the feeds tab.
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---Still working on a newer version. I have figured out how to make this so it works with all screen resolutions(Minimum recomended width 1280 pixels) added a couple of goodies here and there, and will include different colors!---
Will let everyone know when finished.
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great job! but how to make two mail icons of two different accounts? thanks
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youll have to copy the mail code in the .ini file and reposition some of the icons to get a 2nd gmail icon working properly. then you will have to set a seperate username and password for the feed.
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Is it possible to change the width to 768 or 1050 pixels?
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I am working on doing all the math to get everything to work on all resolutions(min768 width), As well as a bottom bar version. Will let you know when done!
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Is it possible to make the images pop upwards, instead of downwards? I'd rather the bar on the bottom, but I can't find the variables in the .ini to make them go up instead of down.
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Im working on a bottom variation as we speak. Should be a week or so and itl be done.
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The switch between fahrenheit to celcius for the weather is not working, always on F. I dont know if there is the same problem with the speed fan temp info cause i use core temp.
Great work anyway..
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I think i know what the problem is, Are you entering M for metric in the weather unit? the options are F or M.
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Hmm, That seems to be a problem with the weather feed. Nothing to do with my skin. I'm still looking into how to fix the problem.
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Thats interesting, Ill have to take a look. Thanks for the info
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Hmmm I shall try this out! Every taskbar I've come across came out of the box way to wide for my crappy 1280 x 1024 desktop. Maybe yours will do the trick! 
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nice one: close to my ideal but still it's not what i'm exactly looking for 
one thing: is the width intentionally left not compatible with #workareawidth# or it's just made for certain screen resolutions??
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If your asking if it will 'grow' when using larger resolutions to fit the whole screen width, It wont do that. you can center it on your screen and use the rounded edges background included to make it look its best, but I made it for my 1280x800 screen to fit across.
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Ive never used screen area width, So it should be able to work with it.
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yea i was asking about "growing" on larger resolutions
shame that you didn't use that it would look even better (on different resolutions than yours
anyway thanks for this good design it gave me some ideas
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Ill see what I can do, incorporating that into this skin, but Ive never used it before. Ill have to do some research on how to.
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use #workareawidth# and relative positioning (x=r y=r) that should probably make it adapt to other screen resolutions
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Now this is going to be included in my upcoming skin, but in a different avatar. I hope you dont mind.BTW, its fabulous.
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Thanks, What do you mean by different avatar? You can use in a skinpack, with credits to me of course. Feel free.
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Well the basic structure will be the same but the style,imagery will be tweaked a little. And you will always be getting credits,man.Like I did in my PREDATOR skin,any thing I use of other's - be it images,concept,desktop screenshot,wallpapers,skins,Fonts,icons- will always get credited.Thats why you see I have a long list of credits in that PREDATOR one.
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Sounds good. cant wait to see your next big project!
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Here's a preview
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looks cool. Not sure how my skin will fit in there, but im sure youll make it look good.
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Thanx.Will let you know when its out.
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Your skin is the reason why mine has the clicks. It gave me the idea, But I had no idea where to look for sounds! So I borrowed your clicks and edited to include you in credits.
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I'm interested: what will you add/change in the next update?
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Im not sure yet. Might add different color schemes, Make the ability to dock to the bottom with the top, of course fix whatever small bugs are in this release. Im open to any suggestions!
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Sound good
I'll keep testing and let you know if I found bugs.
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There shouldnt be any. I took the time to triple check everything to make sure, But you know how this stuff goes! Theres always something that slips by.
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No prob mate, just noticed
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This is fantastic!
Now I just need to figure out how to use this!
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Thanks. Let me know if you need help.
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I think this is a problem with my Rainmeter overall and not with your skin, but whenever I set it to Settings>Position>Stay Topmost, it always ends back up to "On Desktop". Think you know what I can do about this?
Also, just so you know, whenever the text is too big to fit in the default box of any of the popout boxes (take shortcuts for example), the words go out of the box as opposed to the box getting bigger or the words wrapping inside the box. Just FYI, I don't know whether or not you knew this.
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It has Zposition bangs, When you click on a tabname, Itl bring it to the topmost ZPosition, Then when you hide the tab, It goes back to on desktop. If you want, You can set the 'Desktop work area' so windows dont overlap it.
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As for the text, Ill add a clipstring to the names, So itl show the dots... and cut off the word if its too big for the boxes. I dont think theres a way to make the box expand with the words width.
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