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Look & Feel: Explorer Animations (Windows XP Only) |
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The options here allow you to change the animations for various Explorer actions, including: Copying a file, moving a file, deleting a file, emptying the Recycle Bin, deleting a file (final), setting file attributes, and downloading a file. You can view the current animation for each action in the preview area (center of window). There are three main areas of this tab; 1. Which animations are displayed, 2. List of actions of animations, and 3. Menu of skins (bottom of window). |
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Changing an Animation Some skins include animations and you have the option to select which animations are displayed; the current skin (i.e. Classic) or the animations you select from a different skin (i.e. Molten). The following table explains your options: |
| Action | What it does |
| Always use the animations
defined in the current skin. |
(Default) Uses the animations included in the visual style (skin) you
applied on the
tab. If the skin doesn't include any animations, the default
Windows XP animations will be displayed in Explorer windows. If
changing to this option after having a different animation applied, click
on
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| If the skin has animations
defined then use it, otherwise use the animations selected below. |
Uses the animations included in the visual style (skin)
you applied on the
tab. If the skin doesn't include any animations, WindowBlinds will
use the animations you select from the menu. After selecting this option,
click on an action from the pull-down menu, then select a skin (menu on
bottom) and click on
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| Always use the animations
selected below. |
Uses the animations you select from the menu. After
selecting this option, click on an action from the pull-down menu, then
select a skin (menu on bottom) and click on
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| To change an animation, you need to either select "If the skin has animations defined then use it, otherwise use the animations selected below" OR "Always use the animations selected below". To determine if the skin has any new built-in animations, select it from the menu and see if anything is displayed in the preview area (see below for an example) for the action. If there is animation for the action you want to replace, then you should select "Always use the animations selected below", otherwise you will just see the skin's animations. If nothing is displayed in the preview, that skin uses the standard Windows XP animations. |
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| Next, click on the pull-down menu (right-side, under preview area) and select an action from the list. Selecting a different skin's animations will change all of the animations for all of the actions listed in the pull-down menu. |
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| As an example, clicking on the "Recycle bin empty" in the action list and selecting the "Molten" skin will show this preview: |
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To apply this set of animations from the Molten skin, simply
click on If you changed the animations to a different skin (i.e. Molten) from what your current skin is (i.e. Classic), you can change back to the current skin animations. To do this, click on "Always use the animations defined in the current skin" and click .Changing to Default OS Animations If you want to use the default Microsoft XP animations instead of the current skin (i.e. Classic), select "Always use the animations selected below.". Then click on the "Default Animations by Microsoft" (far left on the menu) and click .
You won't see any preview, but the actual animations will be changed when you
apply the changes. |
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menu option near the top of the window on the
sub-menu. This tab is visible only in Windows XP.