Green background change? config.abz listing?

[gardner_monk]

Howdy,

Anybody know if there's a way to change the background from the light green colour?

Also is there a listing of all the parameters that can be changed/added by editing config.abz.

Thanks much.

[Hamsandwich]

Well the prog supports skins afaik, so you may be able to change the colour by using a different skin, not sure if that's in 0.25.0 or not though.

Can't be of much help though. 

[Boudewijn]

i guess he was talking about the new look in 0.31.4 .. and well .. changing the skin back to the windows7 skin worked for me .. i really disliked the lightbusiness skin with the green background and all buttons looking like they were already pressed

hmm didnt notice he is not registered as a contributor .. so either he was talking about an old version or is using an illegal version

i also dunno about the changeable parameters

[davidq666]

Howdy,

Anybody know if there's a way to change the background from the light green colour?

Also is there a listing of all the parameters that can be changed/added by editing config.abz.

Thanks much.

nope 31.4 does have some skins to choose from, a skineditor to change specific parameter is anounced but yet to be implemented...

[Chuckle123]

I would assume all entries in app.config are meant to be modfied from within the application.

[gardner_monk]

Skins? Search facilities? Whatever. I like apps with vanilla wrappers. I edited the config file to clean up the interface leaving only the Connect, NZB, Cleanup and Setup tabs - text, no icons.  Cut the sizes and spacing down and moved things around a bit. Essentially did what I could figure out but was hoping someone here could clue me in on anything more possible. Kind of surprised, though, that there's no real answer coming from the "pros" on the board. (I mean, what do you people do here )

While I have, on occasion, tried out cracked versions of a latest release I always go back to the last free version as I don't see anything of any real merit in the new stuff. Believe me, if there was something worthwhile I'd be on Paypal tomorrow but eye candy and superfluous extras don't interest me. All I wanna do is dl, par-check/complete and unrar.   Even the watch-as-you-download facility of v0.25.0 is no biggie as it's just as easy to send the first rar to VLC - although the control you get from integrating a user's choice of viewer puts it well ahead of Bintube's downloader.

As far as nzb search you can't beat all the useful info offered on Matrix or Merlins for helping you make choices of what to grab. And now that Newzleech is down it's a good thing my server is Bintube (which rules) 'cause their search engine is tops for general stuff -  Binsearch coming in a close second IMHO.

All in all, though, alt.binz is one of the killer apps on the net. I'd rank it right up there with Firefox for what it can do and ease of use. Pairing alt.binz and xnews you've got usenet by the balls.  

BTW I ought to know. I've been around since it was called ARPANet when I was in university studying electrical engineering back in the day before there were any PCs and programming was done with punch cards. (Probably before most of you were even born). I used to trade emails with Tim Berners Lee for info on the finer points of editing html. We used Lynx, a text-based Unix browser. This was before the www went graphic when Andreassen came out with Mosaic. So MAJOR KUDOS to the dude who put it together! Thanks man -- whoever you are - your app will live on in internet infamy.

[Chuckle123]

pfft

[gardner_monk]

pfft

Little kitty get rubbed the wrong way?

[davidq666]

Skins? Search facilities? Whatever. I like apps with vanilla wrappers. I edited the config file to clean up the interface leaving only the Connect, NZB, Cleanup and Setup tabs - text, no icons.  Cut the sizes and spacing down and moved things around a bit. Essentially did what I could figure out but was hoping someone here could clue me in on anything more possible. Kind of surprised, though, that there's no real answer coming from the "pros" on the board. (I mean, what do you people do here )
...

well almost all changes u mention can be done by context menue and since 0.25 is quite old most of the active community has only got a vague memory left of what it looked like and what feature were in it.
but there have been a lot more substaintial changes then just eye candy or new flashy features since 0.25. just to name a few worth noticing:

0.31.2
+ new faster multicore par2.exe inside altbinz
* 400% decoding speedup

0.28.4
* Decoding of >4GB files

0.28.3
* fixed crash while loading corrupted queue file [Link]
+ previous copy of queue file is kept and can be loaded when current queue file is corrupted

0.26.1
+ Execute command after par2 check or unrar [Link]

0.26.0
+ article in-memory caching system [Link]
memory cache size (setup->Download #2) (default=0 no caching)
save articles that were in cache for more then (setup->Download #2) (default=30)

[gardner_monk]

davidq666 wrote: "well almost all changes u mention can be done by context menue"

Getting back to my original question . . . can the background be changed from green to another colour?

Thanks.

[Hecks]

No.

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