Skinning is fun!
If you haven't tried out DesktopX 2, you should. I haven't enjoyed skinning and such this much since the WindowBlinds .39 days.
Today I figured out how to embed flash. believe it or not, you can actually embed the flash .swf file right into a .dxpack itself (.dxpack is just a .zip file renamed) and distribute the flash file directly.
But I'm also having fun having it point to websites that have flash.
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=3042
Here's some typical code:
| <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scroll = "no" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="movie" value="Tetriswm.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <embed src="Tetriswm.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="465" height="360"></embed> </object> |
So I put that on the web page.
First line get rid of the scrollbar and margins.
Then I have the width and height changed to 100% / 100% since Flash can scale on the fly which is nice.
Then I create my DX object, create a script and have it be an ActiveX control that points to my HTML file.
I tell ya, Flash and DesktopX are like two pees in a pod.