Ok first off, I cannot get this thing to work in xoblite. If after reading this, someone has an idea how to implement it over.. can you email me.

PLUGINS
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bbinterface [link]
broamrelay [link]
my bbi rc file [link]

..::]1 You probly want to do, since this is your first time, is pick maybe the top 5 or 10 styles that you like to view (you can add more later), cycling through more than that will be kinda tedious.

..::] 2: open your favorite graphic editing program (psp is good for this) and go through each of the jpg walls that you like (see above) and make a bmp file out of them measuing 264 x 179 (if you are using my rc file. if you would like it bigger or smaller just change the lblPicture setting and shrink your walls accordingly. save these "thumbnails" wherever you like. hind site would suggest that to save them in a sub folder off of the broamrelay
/plugins/broamrelay/thumbnails
for example.

..::3] Now for every wall or style that you want to be in the selector,you will have to make a STYLESxx.TXT file (it can really be anytype of txt file, i just used styles.. seemed to make sense at the time)


Here is style01.txt from my collection:

1:@BBInterface Control SetAgent lblPicture Image Bitmap "c:\blackbox\backgrounds\end_the_darknes s.bmp"

2:@BBInterface Control SetAgent btnNextStyle MouseDown Bro@m "@BroamRelay c:\blackbox\plugins\broamrelay\style02.t xt"

3:@BBInterface Control SetAgent btnPrevStyle MouseDown Bro@m "@BroamRelay c:\blackbox\plugins\broamrelay\style09.t xt"

4:@BBInterface Control SetAgent btnStyleSelect MouseDown Bro@m "@BBCore.style c:\blackbox\styles\end_the_darkness"

for some of you who are rc savy will catch right of the bat that this is the same exerpt from the actual bbinterface.rc file. this is because this is the first style (in my settings) that comes up in the box when bb is started.

now lets break it down line by line.
according to this, you can see that i have 9 stylexx.txt's
When it first starts up, it is currently set to style 1.

1. This is the bmp file that you made to display this wall. the broamrelay will change the lblPicture to what you have here

2. when you press the btnNext it will run style02.txt
3. when you press the btnPrev it will run style09.txt

note this is where it can get confusing. if you have 9 images, and go back one, the loop starts at your greatest number, or 9 in this case.

4. bbcore will set this style when you press the btnSelect.

now adding views is easy.
lets say you made 3 so far
found a cool one that you like: maybe this one [link]

make your bmp file and edit your text.

You will have to edit 2 and make one. here is how (this rule follows for all stylexx.txt)

edit the style01.txt
1. You have to edit this so that whn you press the prev button, it will now load the new style04.txt (in this case)

2. Edit style03.txt (in this example) so that the btnNext loads styele04.txt

3. then make your style04.txt (actually just cut and paste from one of the other style files to save on typing). btnNext will load style01.txt (remember you dont have a 5th one so its gonna loop to the first style file). btnPrev will load style03.txt and btnSelect will load the current style.

is that tedious. YES! but fret not,
you can get a alpha program i wrote to do it all for you
[link]


any questions just email me..