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 Post subject: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 22nd, 2015, 12:14 pm 
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The widget has 23 tiles that you can select in the slide panel and select the background color of the menu in title tiles:
User; Time (Greenwich Time, Hourly Bell, Alarm, Event); Calendar; Weather; RSS; Mail; Search; Folders; System; Computer; Battery; Calculator; Converter (Formulas); Password; Color RGB; Volume; Slideshow (from Local Folder or Bing); Radio; Player (No cover, Album cover, 8 Dancers); Business; Notes; ToDo; More...(some other widgets).
See Menu of every tile you find there many others Functions.
This widget has one big minus it loading 10...20 seconds because very "heavy".
I do not recommend using more 4...7 tiles (Use more memory & CPU).

Updated: 26/05/2015
Some small bugs fixed


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 Post subject: Re: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 22nd, 2015, 6:52 pm 
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Absolutely AWESOME WORK! 8-)
Thanks for sharing!
Is a pity that I can upload it to the official gallery because there is the 10Mb limit for all the widget..
I will donwload it the check the widget's folder, but from the first look seems that is more text than images..Why is so large...?

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 Post subject: Re: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 22nd, 2015, 10:59 pm 
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Outstanding. Using a lot of memory for me.

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 Post subject: Re: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 23rd, 2015, 2:48 am 
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I downloaded and tested the widget and here are my impressions and suggestions:
1) The cpu usage with only the sidebar activated is ~15-25% that is not optimal but doesn't make the widget unusable..
2) You need to find another system so the mouse over menus work properly. When you try to click on these buttons, they disappear again and are really hard to use and "catch" them. You need to work with the layers and the mouse over area.
I see that you added the right click option to turn-off this, but it needs optimization.
3) It will be better if you add "Hints" for each button to explain what each button does (more easy to find).
4) Since I saw that the titles are created with "empty" images and you used the "Fill Color" option, you can use the RGB color selection, so the users can edit the title color. Example:
http://jimking.deviantart.com/art/Win8- ... -495634925
5) It will great if there is the "sizegrip" for the titles
6) If you can't add the above, I think that you need to decrease a lot the dimensions of the titles to have better cpu consumption.

That's all :)

pm: As I told you the uploading system requires one .xwp file and with <10Mb size.
If you can package only the sidebar and the size is ok, I can upload it to the gallery.

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 Post subject: Re: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 23rd, 2015, 3:22 am 
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excellent work thanks!!!


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 Post subject: Re: Metro Bar
PostPosted: May 25th, 2015, 9:52 am 
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Thanks guys for positive feedback
jimking wrote:
4) Since I saw that the titles are created with "empty" images and you used the "Fill Color" option, you can use the RGB color selection, so the users can edit the title color. Example:
http://jimking.deviantart.com/art/Win8- ... -495634925

You can select color of Tile in right-click menu on the name of Tile
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I deleted 6 dancers and now .xwp file is < 10 MB
I reload widget :D


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