09-23-2002, 06:24 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Free, fast and fantastic...
http://www.stardock.com/products/pocketblinds/
... cuz' it's got that Close-button! PocketBlinds is a free skinning extension with which you can graphically customize almost anything on your Pocket PC. At last, the wait is over. We saw the announcement a long time ago. Then the team got themselves into a couple of software issues that now have been addressed. Visit the PocketBlinds home page, download the software and SDK and start creating!
"PocketBlinds is the first free form skinning extension for Windows CE 3.x or later (PocketPC). PocketBlinds allows you to skin the title bar completely and add/position as many buttons as you can fit. Moreover, it is compatible with the WindowBlinds plug-in format allowing users to easily make their own title bar "gadgets" (MP3 players, stock tickers, memory meters, etc.). It's also free. ... PocketBlinds integrates directly into the OS by extending the Windows CE GWE(Graphics, Windowing, and Events) subsystem, so it is fast and small. ... PocketBlinds skins are truly free form. It also has an open plug-in architecture, which means that users can make their own plug-ins to extend the navigation bar.. It also means users have a great deal more control over where a button is placed."
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09-23-2002, 06:33 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Very cool - I'd love to see what Thoughts readers can come up with! Come on guys, I know you're creative... 
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09-23-2002, 07:25 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 121
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Good luck un-installing it. I tried it out and decided I didn't want it anymore and it will not un-install. It keeps saying there are 3 .dlls in use even though I have everthing unloaded...
heyday 
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09-23-2002, 07:26 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 19
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heyday,
soft reset the device. browse to the windows directory and rename the dlls. soft reset again and delete them.
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09-23-2002, 07:27 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 13
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Hi heydey,
PocketBlinds only includes 1 dll outside of the skins. Was PocketBlinds running when you tried to uninstall it? (If so, unload it, then try uninstalling again 
Thanks,
Ian
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09-23-2002, 07:29 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 113
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Originally Posted by heyday
Good luck un-installing it. I tried it out and decided I didn't want it anymore and it will not un-install. It keeps saying there are 3 .dlls in use even though I have everthing unloaded...
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rename those dll's and try again
after that just delete the folders...it works
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Johan van Mierlo
Founding Partner, Sr. News & Review Editor
MobilityMinded.com & WP7.nl - Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone
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09-23-2002, 07:31 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 113
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Originally Posted by Furan
Hi heydey,
PocketBlinds only includes 1 dll outside of the skins. Was PocketBlinds running when you tried to uninstall it? (If so, unload it, then try uninstalling again
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The 3 dll are in your logika folder...just rename those
make sure you install it in your main directory...storage card won't work
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Johan van Mierlo
Founding Partner, Sr. News & Review Editor
MobilityMinded.com & WP7.nl - Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone
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09-23-2002, 07:36 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 13
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What I meant was that there are usually 2 dlls in a skin(ok/close & clock plugins). If you try to uninstall while PocketBlinds is running, the uninstaller would show pbgwe.dll and those DLLs. The best thing to do if you want to uninstall it, is unload it via the tray icon before uninstalling.. I'll include a custom installer call in the next release that will unload PocketBlinds if you try to uninstall it while it is running(not that I want everyone to be uninstalling it...)
-Ian
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09-23-2002, 07:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 81
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Looks cool
how does this compare in functionality to GigaBar or Wisbar? Or are they completely different things?
(hoping not to start a religious war)...
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09-23-2002, 07:59 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 13
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The major goal of PocketBlinds is to reach the level of customization that we have on the desktop with WindowBlinds. So that's buttons, toolbars, scrollbars, menubars, system colors, tabs, trackbars, etc...(Right now we've got the nav bar, buttons, toolbars, and menubars). WIS Bar, GigaBar, and the like are all aimed at enhancing navigational bar functionality. So while there is some feature overlap(in that one of the things PocketBlinds skins is the nav bar), you can disable the nav bar skinning in PocketBlinds to use both at the same time.
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