11/27/05 News

Here is today's progress:

Added 5 new label that allows the category headers to be customizable
Added 1 new label that allows the title to also be customizable

What am I going to be working on this upcoming week?
Custom icons
Completing cpl paths
Completing the help file, including a tutorial on how to skin TSP*

*Tiger System Preferences

New Spanish Version

Today I have worked for more than 4 hours to bring Tiger System Preferences to a higher customization level. I have made all labels customizable, and not only the ones for the 6 custom icons. This change add 48 new lines of code to the project and forced me to create 2 new background files from scratch and completelly clean (without icons, labels or headers) in order to accomodate the new labels.

I have also linked the search box with Windows search utility, but unfortunatelly it does not transfer the text typed on the textbox to the search window and there is nothing I can do about it at the moment. This change added 15 new lines of code to the project as well as a new module.

But the biggest update I made today was a close-to 90% Spanish version of it, to satisfy requests from my friends at Macthink. I say close to 90% because there are elements of the program that will stay in English, such as tooltips, the About screen, the menu, and the Show All button. I could make those in Spanish, but that would mean creating the whole project for a second time and I don't want to do that at the moment. So I hope people like what I did to make the Spanish version possible: a separate Skin INI file that contains the label names in Spanish. Here is a screenshot of what is done in the Spanish update:

Nov 25, 2005 Screenshots

Here are today's screenshots of what is already done:

About Screen



Main User Interface



















Error windows:



















Transparent menu










Folder Structure






Ini settings for Main and Skins

Hello Everyone, new updates for TSP V2!

It's being a long time since the last time I talk about the development of my second version of Tiger System Preferences for Windows. I was forced to stop its development due to the lack of time to work on it, but now I am coming back and ready to finish it up and release it. I started working on it officially yesterday and I had done the following changes:

• Added a new exe icon
• Fixed a problem that was causing the background image not to load
• Removed the 'hide the last line' code due to an issue with the shadow
• Edited the shadow file
• Edited the credits file
• Edited the properties info on the exe icon

In order to make the installer smaller :

• Removed the WidgetDock folder (540kb)
• Removed the flash help database (6.04MB and counting....)

Currently working on:

• A couple of new icons such as the most requested 'Add/remove programs' icon.
• Fixing a couple of not working links to control panel items
• Adding new links and possible new paths for custom icons
• Creating a pdf help document instead of the flash help database
• Planning to update the website with lastest info
• Trying to find a way to make the search work or point to the windows search utility

I hope this are good news for everyone and if you feel you can help speed up the completition of the project in any way, please feel free to contact me at gsbenitez@gmail.com . By the way, I have given permission to Chris, the creator of Flyakite software to add my new version of the program to the incoming new version of Flyakite: 3.