Hey all,

I'm sure most of you think i have given up on DX. Its been months since I posted anything on DX scripting, or creation. Just been working my butt of out-of-town for most of the past 4 months.
Actually I'm sitting in a hotel room right now.  Anyway, I was looking at something the other day and wondered how many little SIMPLE tricks are hidden in DX. I was talking to miksama the other day and he pointed sent me some cool things.

I wanted to share some things that not everyon...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #11 - Animation A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson: "Animation"

Ok, So.. I lied.  Well I didn't Lie, I really was done, but this one was really simple and I saw some people asking about this, and I had just finished making just this thing.  I figured why not.
So call it a bonus for me becoming a Master.. or call it, I was bored.

We will be Using the SCRIPTED Animation che...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #10 - Hide & Seek A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson: "Hide & Seek"

This will be the last in this series of Tutorials. I hope you have enjoyed them, and managed to get something out of them.
In this lesson we will do some basic DX operations on one object from another.
We will cover the following:

HIDE/SHOW one object by clicking on another SLIDE/HIDE one object by clicking on ...

Hey all,

I have been working out of town for what seems like a year now, but i hope to be in town for the next few days.

I have been working on these DX Tutorials for a while now, my original goal was to create 10, well, i have made 9 so far and only plan on doing 1 more (for now). The question of the day is, what would you aspiring DX coders want me to do this last tutorial on?

The plan was to do it on a INI type file, how to read/write data as well as show how to edit this info in...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #9 - Wallpaper Changer A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson:"Wallpaper Changer"

In this lesson we will walk thru a few built-in commands in DX that allow you to create a Wallpaper Changer.
We will start simple and add to the script.  It is amazing all the things that are built into DX.

We will use the file dialog box, the wallpaper changer, create a "right-click" me...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #8 - Tool-Tip Replacement A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson:"Tool-Tip Replacement"

In this lesson we will make a replacement for the built in Tool-tip, one that can be made any color, shadow, transparency, and have it re-size automatically.

This is not going to be a simple STEP-BY-STEP, I'm assuming if you are this advanced into DX, I don't need to explain how to get the script wind...

Step-by-Step Tutorial #6 - User Input / Save / Retrieve A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson:"User Input / Save / Retrieve"

In this lesson we will cover how to gather information from a user via a popup dialog box, and to how to store and retrieve this data from the registry.

As in the previous tutorial, the goal here is for you to learn how to create an object, add code to it, and be able to edit that code to make ...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #5 - Using WMI A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson:"Using WMI" Windows Management Instrumentation

In this lesson we will cover how to use Microsoft's WMI to find out some basic info about our windows computer.
In order to use these Tutorials you will need to purchase DesktopX for $14.95 from Stardock.
Lets get started.

STEP 1 - Create a text object.I'm not going to go bac...

Hey all,

I finished 5 of the "Step-by-step" DX tutorials and was wanting to continue the series (if people want me to), but i need to know what you would be looking for next?


Look over: Tutorial Listing

Let me know what you think would be a good next 4-5 steps???

these were some ideas before:
1. Start small: A "Hello World" widget... Basically, just a widget that says (in text and/or graphics, "Hello World"). -- DONE
2. Next, a widget with a little interactivity: Two or three b...

I know we have had discussions on new Gallery's but I really think we need these 2.

1. DX Gadgets - this would be for gadgets only, so people without DX could load these and know they would work, and people with DX would know that everything in the WIDGET Gallery is a widget that can be imported.

2. DX Weather/Clock - yes yes yes, anyone that has ever been in the DX Widgets gallery know that there and have done a "search" for "weather" will return you 7 pages of 32 widgets, or MORE. Thi...

Script Tutorials #7 - Replacing the Right-Click Menu A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here
Today's Lesson:"Replacing the Right-Click Menu"

This lesson is more advanced then the previous ones I have posted.
This is something that I have found myself working on a LOT lately.   Replacing the standard right-click menu that DX puts on everything with my own menu.  There are lots of reasons for this.

You wa...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #4 - Scripting 101 A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click here

Today's Lesson:"Scripting 101"  - UPDATED 5/08/07

Today we will learn how to do some VERY basic scripting in DexktopX. Scripting in DX can be done with JavaScript as well as VBScript, but since i know next to nothing about Javascript, I will be covering VBScript.

Please Look over the previous 3 tutorials so that we can skip up to some thi...

Step-by-Step Tutorials Tutorial Listing A series by RomanDA These Tutorials are designed to help anyone who wants to learn DesktopX. This page will be updated as I add more Tutorials, so WATCH this to see when its updated.

#1 - Hello World #2 - Folder Object #3 - Attack of the Clones #4 - Scripting 101 - (added 2/25/2007) #5 - Using WMI - (added 4/5/07) #6 - User Input / S...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #3 - Attack of the Clones A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click hereToday's Lesson:"Attack of the Clones"

In this lesson we will cover how to create a clone from an object, so we can have multiple items on the screen linked to a Folder, a Program and a web URL.

In order to use this tutorial, you will need to first go thruTutorial #2 (and download the zip file from there as well).

I will assume you downloaded ...

Step-by-Step Tutorials #2 - Folder Object A series by RomanDA Listing of other DX Tutorials:Click hereToday's Lesson:"Folder Object"

In this lesson we will cover how to create a simple object that you can use to open a folder. (We will be using this in the next one to create a Program and a URL Shortcut.

To use this tutorial you will need these 2 PNG files -click HERE to download - (yes, they are lame, but i wanted something simple to use).

For thi...