Longhorn Sidebar 5.0, Released Options

[Windowsx]

This will add Longhorn SideBar on your Windows 98 or later with Active Desktop features. Please read below before continue.



SETUP INSTRUCTION

1. This program requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Runtime and Macromedia Flash Player 7 to work properly.
2. After installation has done, right click on Longhorn SideBar - Control Center tray icon and select Preferences menu to configure your SideBar
3. In Preferences dialog, you can click Manage SlideShow button and drop your pictures to display in slide (read notes.txt)
4. If you use resolution lower than 800x600, you'll see some parts of SideBar.



WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.0
-Added SideBar application core with the follow updates
:Apply skins and clocks from tray
:Built-in transparency support
:No more active desktop to slow down your PC
:No more background icon transparent and 32-bit icon problems in XP/2003
:SideBar Docking support (take up workspace)
:To show SideBar, double click tray icon
:Toggle Show/Hide SideBar
-Added Western (By Scott Eichelberger)
-Corrected month December in Tile mode
-Updated memo to be direct editable memo in program
-Updated SideBar gui displaying code
-Updated slideshow to search for all files and display it (read notes.txt)



WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.0
-Added Aero PDC and Jade and Slate (WinHEC) skin
-Added Aero WinHEC clock
-Clock was seperated from Skins for more customizing with optimized for resizing mode (512x512 pxl)
-Fixed color problem in css
-New SideBar file structure
-New Tile mode (You can choose it during installation or maintenance)
-Updated Aero PDC (Night) clock
-Updated Neowin.net skin from Neowin Transformation Pack
-Updated SideBar layout
-Updated uninstall script to keep memo and slideshow pictures



WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0
-Added "Manage SlideShow" and " Apply Skins" link in About page (You should see notes.txt in these folders)
-Added Tasks pane for more features
-Added Skinning support with new 8 skins (Aero, Longhorn SideBar, Luna, MCE Aqua, Media Center, Neowin.net and Slate and Mistic version)
-Moved Slideshow and Google Search in Tasks list and add File Mirrors Search and News Links in tasks list
-Updated Longhorn Clock looks more smoother



WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.0

-Random slideshow images
-Tuned reconfigure resolution settings (It's recommend you to resize the bar before do it)
-Updated Memo to html
-Updated SideBar to gradient mode
-Updated style cheet color
-You can change slideshow at windir\sidebar\slide and replace file to shotx.jpg (resizing fixed)



LONGHORN TILE FEATURES

Tile is a new major updates from Longhorn build 4053 It won't be pane-type as Sidebar anymore. It looks like pop-up window which holding these stuffs.

1. Longhorn Clock
This component has date as title and cool Longhorn Clock in flash!

2. Memo
This component will display your memo notes. You can type whatever you want in and click Save to save your memo.

3. Calander
Only new features for tile mode because it's too large for SideBar pane. Same as Longhorn build 4053 tile but change current date text color instead hilight background. This feature will be resized while resizing.

4. About
It will redirect to new tile which contains project information, developer information and beta-testers



LONGHORN SIDEBAR FEATURES

You'll see five components in SideBar. There are:

1. About
About is link page. It will redirect to new bar which contains project information, developer information and beta-testers

2. Date and Longhorn Clock
This component has date as title and cool Longhorn Clock in flash!

3. Memo
This component will display your memo notes. You can type whatever you want in and click Save to save your memo.

4. Slide Show
This component will display slideshow picture. It will change picture with fade effects in 5 seconds. There's default My Pictures and my Chobits wallpaper

5. Search with Google
You can use quick search in this component. As the title, you'll search in Google with 256 maximum characters. Click "Search!" to start Google search in new window.

6. File Mirrors Search
You can find your wanted file with this famous file seeker site. You also can visit website at http://www.filemirrors.com

7. News Links
If you're one who interested in PC-tech, you can visit these famous PC-tech site in these links. It could be easier to make few clicks in desktop than uses favourites.



LONGHORN SIDEBAR REMOVAL

You can remove Longhorn SideBar by this this setup again and select "Yes, I want to uninstall Longhorn SideBar and install new one" option and press OK. You can tick "Also remove slideshow pictures, memo, everything." to remove all Longhorn SideBar stuffs (recommended for installing newer version).

Attached File(s)

 shot.jpg ( 154.43K ) Number of downloads: 4541
 sidebar.zip ( 3.02MB ) Number of downloads: 37263

 

[Guest_Philip_*]

Why is the HTML in the sidebars encrypted? This is kinda annoying for thoose who want to customise it.

"protected by HTMLZip"

[Windowsx]

Because someone may take put it over their site and rip of my works. Moreover, I don't want someone else rip my work. If you have any great idea to mod it, please contact me and I'll give you uncrypted file.

[Guest_Philip_*]

Fully understood.

Yeah I had some good ideas using Flash.....

Wanted to test and try some things in the sidebar....

Thanks

[Windowsx]

You can contact me in MSN to talk about this. My address is deadknightz@hotmail.com

[Guest_Philip_*]

Cheers dude! Not sure though, I have seen www.desktopsidebar.com and that is pretty cool.

[Windowsx]

This SideBar is just active desktop sidebar based on webpage. Main concepts are eye candy and low resources.

[neo]

I love eyecandy. Photoshop wouldnt be any good without it ( naw ! )
Hehe. But personally, i dislike the taskbar thing. Windowx, believe me, the TSP would be 10x better without it

[neo]

Hmm, is the 4.0 version included with pack 7.0 ?

[Windowsx]

TSP? What is that? btw, user can choose to install sidebar or not in LTP anyway.

[neo]

Oh no, thats not TSP .. . Its LTP hehehe . I get scribbled sometimes . Anyway, would there be any skin releases on it ? If yes, then do let me know

And his idea on using FLASH would not work good on low resource PCs, so, he should keep in mind not to use much confistications. You can check my flashed sites : http://www.ehab88.net , http://www.viewcontrol.tk hmm . .yea try these two

[neo]

My whole concept of a flash interface is to supply the user with a freindly interface with a little animation . Another major fact while using flash is that its fun coz , no one can really mess with your stuff , unless or other he knows how to play .

If you make a page with html , u can easily rip the whole site, top to bottom.
( I planned to steal your images from windowsx.org and make a software section in my site for mirrors of stuffs here )

Which ofcourse i will, when i get time ... got a lot to do everyday
college, table tennis, studies . . . gaming ..blah !

[Windowsx]

Thanks. I'll check that and find what can merge into SideBar.

[Guest_Guest_*]

how do you uninstall the thing. It's eating up some mem I need to free up?

[Windowsx]

It's just active desktop and smallest sidebar stuffs you can find in this world.

[Guest_Monica_*]

how do you uninstall the thing.  It's eating up some mem I need to free up?

I just want to uninstall it.... please, this is not my computer and I like all the stuff you make, but I desperatelly need to take it off..........

[Windowsx]

Run it again and see the rest of options.

[Guest_j_whatevr_*]

I was wondering if it is possible to come out with a sidebar that integrates media player into it?

[Windowsx]

Not possible. It's just html sidebar after all.

[Guest_::TheTweakFather_*]

It is actually possible to launch apps with html but it will need some coding. Btw, WindowsX, do you plan to offer support for at least 1600x1200 desktops? Many are running these resolutions nowadays.

[Windowsx]

My resolution checking doesn't support any resolution larger than 1280x1024. Please set that yourself. Move your mouse around sidebar and you'll see border. Drag it to suitable place and stretch it to fit desktop.

[Guest_Nipa_*]

For me either it won't work.. but I can program a sidebar with some dx8 effects.. But I don't have time to work on it.. Way too busy with DX...

Nipa-Xtreme Arts

[Windowsx]

ic. If someone can find registry or windows setting value that contains resolution mode, I'll fix that with all resolutions.

[AquarianGuy]

Windowsx --

Question: Is Longhorn Sidebar 4 part of LTP8? LTP8 was my first foray into doing themes. The reason for the question is I just wondered if LS4 is an upgrade or the same thing as in LTP8.

Regardless, I did have this one experience with the Longhorn Sidebar in LTP8: There was a big empty block near the top of the LS. It look like something was supposed to be there, but I never could get it to fill in. I never did see a clock. Also in one of the older versions of LS (I think it was ver. 2) I could get scrolling headlines. I couldn't get this function to work either.

At any rate, I uninstalled LTP8 to get rid of the LS and am toying with the idea of whether or not to resinstall.

[Windowsx]

LS4 is the same thing as LTP and that box is for resizing and changing web item mode. (LS is item from active desktop) Try applying skin and clock too solve that problem.