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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:52 am 
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This has also been uploaded to the gallery for Winstep users/owners.

I did a circular menu but realised while I do not drag the main menu submenus, I know many do, and it subsequently stretches to the point of being ugly doing that, so I utilised a more conventional menu.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 10:48 am 
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I deleted my OLD Modern Office 1 from the Winstep Gallery.

- not because I did not like it but because I have got better at it since then and while it was moderately clean, I have completely cleaned it up even the wallpaper and found a nice font - Done other than the battery - which as mentioned in earlier posts, I will do when I get a laptop at Christmas. The placeholders are there, just simple alignment and positioning.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 10:34 am 
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Anyone who has been to a wine festival knows what is there. This theme I did a long time ago. I always liked the main menu concept but the sub menu I was never content with until now. I cleaned most of it up and as mentioned many times, will do the battery alignments ( not done) with the others when I get to view on a laptop and like the others, will upload to the gallery then.
It comes with two wallpapers. Both work and for different reasons.
I should probably put a text disclaimer inside the directory when I do graphically detailed main menu's like this. They do not stretch well if the person likes dragging an attached submenu to the middle of the screen that is large, because it turns back into the main menu. I will probably do the warning from now on. There is a possibility that there is a setting I have not learned yet that disables main menu resizing and simply adds a 'more' at the base, regardless of where it is dragged, but as yet I have not found it in the *.wst files.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:41 am 
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Damn. II really need to work on opening that Winstep Gallery to the general public. It's not fair to you, all these nice themes and (almost) no feedback.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:59 am 
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winstep wrote:
Damn. II really need to work on opening that Winstep Gallery to the general public. It's not fair to you, all these nice themes and (almost) no feedback.


That is very kind of you - Not a problem and all I ask is one small coding addition kindly please before we go there?
Is there any way possible for 'some' themes because it won't apply to all, that you can introduce a 'do not rescale on drag" function PLEEEEEEEASE? - a line that can be True or False in the *.wst files?
I make the submenus to be rescaled and there are two separate *.wst files anyway. ;)


I respect the desire for any person to move the menus anywhere they like, it is a part of the attraction of Winstep. Unfortunately, the more graphic the main menu, the greater likliehood when a large submenu is dragged from the main and turns into the main, stretched it will not look good. It's not an issue if all the graphics are in the title and endcap sections but it is an issue in the button menu section.

@Jorge - If it already exists and I can simply insert a single line into the wst file, would you kindly send it to my personal email :)

I hope it is possible? It won't be necessary for every menu, just some.

If you see the original MENU I made for Black lightning, unstretched it works great and I saved the wst file for it with settings and menu elsewhere because when a submenu stretches it, unfortunately, it does not look good and ceases to remain circular. So I had to bypass it sadly.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:30 pm 
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I did this theme for myself. I am not sure whether anyone outside of the southern Hemisphere may want it? I will put it up with the others later as indicated.
New Zealand has some very unique and incredible birds. One the more well-known is the TUI. What makes it unique is they whistle different melodies. While it is not proven 100% either way, it is believed that no two TUI Birds whistle the same melody.. there's some fun trivia.. :) The TUI's are the RAM module - there is a standard TUI and a Chatham Island TUI. The blue eggs on the Menu are correct and belong to the NZ Song Thrush, which is brown and various shades thereof.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:41 pm 
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Nice and peaceful...
Finished..

As a side-note - I found skinning for Nexus interesting. The clarity in the image below, doing it I found something interesting. If a person uses vectors and makes the width 1920 pixels, it adapts to every resolution. This facilitates the ability to do higher quality graphics. I will likely shift to a straighter path and remove some of the humps time-permitting. I am sure at some point we'll be entering into monitors with 10,240 pixels and higher as a the norm, but that is a fair way away yet.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 7:35 pm 
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Trivia:

As I got older more and more I find the importance of "what not to do".
we had a massive power sag on the entire North Island. It corrupted Winstep and I had to reinstall. I lost none of the theme work but my customized smaller menus were suddenly filled.
I found around 33% of the themes I had made were stretched because I had been working with a small menu.
I have fixed them so it means I will reupload them all at some point in the not too distant future. I will have a small menu on one system and large from now on so I can be sure they will display properly no matter people's personal choices. Learning is a beautiful thing.


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:36 pm 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
I did this theme for myself. I am not sure whether anyone outside of the southern Hemisphere may want it? I will put it up with the others later as indicated.
New Zealand has some very unique and incredible birds. One the more well-known is the TUI. What makes it unique is they whistle different melodies. While it is not proven 100% either way, it is believed that no two TUI Birds whistle the same melody.. there's some fun trivia.. :) The TUI's are the RAM module - there is a standard TUI and a Chatham Island TUI. The blue eggs on the Menu are correct and belong to the NZ Song Thrush, which is brown and various shades thereof.

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Actually, this is far more peaceful than the next theme, mainly due to the warm background colours. The cooler/colder colours of the next theme are a lot more stimulating as opposed to warm and restful. :)

Come across the TUI before. :) But you missed out on the Ooh Aah Bird - so called because it lays square eggs. ;)

Oh, and apologies for correcting - it can't be *very* unique. Unique is one of those words that cannot be qualified. So something either is unique, or it isn't. :)

Anyway, southern hemisphere or not, who cares - it's a very attractive theme! :D

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:09 pm 
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nexter wrote:
BassdudeNZ wrote:
I did this theme for myself. I am not sure whether anyone outside of the southern Hemisphere may want it? I will put it up with the others later as indicated.
New Zealand has some very unique and incredible birds. One the more well-known is the TUI. What makes it unique is they whistle different melodies. While it is not proven 100% either way, it is believed that no two TUI Birds whistle the same melody.. there's some fun trivia.. :) The TUI's are the RAM module - there is a standard TUI and a Chatham Island TUI. The blue eggs on the Menu are correct and belong to the NZ Song Thrush, which is brown and various shades thereof.

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Actually, this is far more peaceful than the next theme, mainly due to the warm background colours. The cooler/colder colours of the next theme are a lot more stimulating as opposed to warm and restful. :)

Come across the TUI before. :) But you missed out on the Ooh Aah Bird - so called because it lays square eggs. ;)

Oh, and apologies for correcting - it can't be *very* unique. Unique is one of those words that cannot be qualified. So something either is unique, or it isn't. :)

Anyway, southern hemisphere or not, who cares - it's a very attractive theme! :D


You are absolutely correct with the word "Unique" - it can be as annoying as the word "Genius" - Both are individual perceptions. I have no issues with anyone feeling either word is appropriate to their personal opinion because we are all human, but if you mean qualifying something with a permanent definition, nothing and nobody can be under such an absolute set of categories.

In this scenario, the Kiwis are very adamant about not letting their birds leave the shores or farmers and environmentalists letting the rainbow lorikeets illegally entered into NZ survive, because they scare away and attack the native birds.
So "Native to NZ" is more appropriate, though the Kiwi bird is one that can almost fit the Unique status and definitely at the least, native to NZ ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:03 am 
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I am mid-editing and balancing every theme for sizing in two different menu sizes (huge and minimal)... In the process, I also created the 12 Astrological signs for my own edification and satisfaction. While definitely not appropriate for every theme, in this one (Solar System) it was. They were done in vectors so they rescale moderately well even after rasterizing (Yes they change appropriately as the "Moon in..." changes when it does a check - I tested it). Sigh....lots of deletions and reuploads coming before Christmas...
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:03 am 
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I guess the proof is in the pudding. Here's one fixed completely with 14 menu items on it. If people really want more than that then sorry, catering to different needs only goes so far... :lol: :lol: People can also see the astrological sign working as well from the above post. yes I changed the arrows, they're planets now.
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