DirectSkin Draws Raves From Developers

Published on July 15, 2002 By koop In WinCustomize News

Download Accelerator Plus, Privity Word and CKM from TecSec, Intermediate Organizer and Visual Communicator from Serious Magic are all products that use DirectSkin to enhance their user interface.

DirectSkin is the ActiveX control that lets developers use the same technology that powers WindowBlinds. Developers can choose between a single interface or can even allow users to apply their own skins. Download Accelerator Plus, for example, is looking for skinners to design skins for their application.

More information can be found at: https://www.stardock.com/products/directskin/

Links to the software applications listed above can be found at https://www.stardock.com/products/directskin/media.html

Anyone interested in designing skins for Download Accelerator Plus should visit: http://www.speedbit.com/skins/
and contact mailto:skinsubmit@speedbit.com

Developers seeking more information can contact directskin@stardock.com

Comments

Dokt

on Jul 15, 2002

You know. I appreciate the quality of the code you guys produce (for the most part), and I also appreciate that Wincustomise is a site hosted at great expense by Stardock, but these triumphal news stories are starting to sound a lot like something from 1984 by George Orwell. Doubleplusgood.

Nakor

on Jul 15, 2002

Well CNN isn't running stories on press releases about an OCX that allows you to customize the look of your application...

And the more salient bit for this particular news item is that DAP is looking for people to create new skins.

SeriousMagic just won a PCMag "Best of Show - Desktop Software" at PC Expo last month too. And DAP has a lot of users, though skinning is only in their registered version. We're not exactly talking about Uncle Bob's ColorWheel Picker here.

koop

on Jul 15, 2002

The same story was covered by CBS MarketWatch, CNET, Lycos, Yahoo and many others. It is news and it is about skinning and so should be on WinCustomize.

As has been pointed out before, as the number of skinnable apps grows and skinning becomes more mainstream, the opportunities for skinners grow.

Dokt, for example, did some really nice DesktopX Objects based on Spiderman: The Movie. One day movie studios will be looking to include skins as a crucial part of their marketing. That will benefit us all.

Dokt

on Jul 16, 2002

Yea, I can see your points ... but what is the selection criteria for news stories? Why wasn't the new beta of StyleXP mentioned, for instance?

MikeB314

on Jul 16, 2002

Anyone can post news Dokt. Feel free.

Joe Blow

on Jul 16, 2002

True, anyone can post news, but McDonald's will never tell anyone that the Whopper is on special.

MikeB314

on Jul 16, 2002

A better anology might be that McDonalds would never tell anyone that poachers are selling burgers down the street.

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