Heaven's BPGP Browser Thread

Downloads:
http://209.85.62.24/174/125/0/f223340/BPGPBrowser.exe

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Skins:
Christmas (screenshot)
Template

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Screenshots:
http://209.85.62.24/174/125/0/f223268/Screenshot1.png
http://209.85.62.24/174/125/0/f223269/Screenshot2.png
http://209.85.62.24/174/125/0/f223270/Screenshot3.png (google)

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Updating:
Latest version: 1.1
You can check if your current version is up-to-date by going to the Version Checker page from the BPGP browser. There will always be a download link to the latest version there as well as, maybe, new and/or featured theme links.

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Features:

• Standard address bar (resizes with window, select all on first click, go to url upon enter, changes to http... style url on page load)
  
• Standard home (bpgamingplanet forums), back, forward, stop, refresh buttons
  
• Dynamic title bar - changes based on current page
  
• BPGP button (opens a menu: Home, Messages, Chat)
  
• Chat button - opens the BPGP chat at the bottom of the browser. Chat window can be resized by dragging the top (cursor changes to a resize cursor on hover)
  
• Skinable design (change button, background looks through images and skin.xml)
  
• Preference saving (save chat window open/close state, skin, etc.)
  
• Version Checker - go here to check your version (works with 1.1 and higher)
  

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Requirements:
.NET Framework (Web browser is cross-platform (windows, mac, etc.) therefore this is needed to run it.)

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Skin Design:
You can download a template skin here.
Proper syntax (File name: skin.xml):

Spoiler:

Images used (Must be named correctly):

Spoiler:

If you make skins and want an underbanner you can use this if you'd like:

Code:

[img]http://209.85.62.24/174/125/0/f222916/SkinDesigners2.png[/img]

Tips:

• A useful technique is to include only background images for some buttons (and no General.gif image) and include foreground images (eg. StopImg.png) so that the only the foreground image shows. For this you may want to leave a text area in skin.xml blank (eg. <tstop></tstop>).

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Side Notes:
I suggest that there be a forum made for the browser so that we can have separate threads for user skins (could make each skin have a 1-5 rank poll; skins with 6 or more 4-5 votes can become official skins), general browser support, and skin-specific support. This could mean some great community projects.

BPGP Browser is a copyright (C) 2009 of Darksauft (don't want anyone taking our stuff)

done and done i gave praises to both of you.............
Heaven i tried downloading it and it says application failed.

Did you read the requirements section and download the .NET framework?
If not also read the side notes section.

Heaven wrote:

Did you read the requirements section and download the .NET framework?
If not also read the side notes section.

oh wow forgot something

What do you think about the new forum in the first side notes paragraph?

Cool.
Think I can help ?

Here's a refresh browser code

Code:

' Refreshes Browser
Private Sub cmdrefresh_Click()
WebBrowser1.Refresh
End Sub

Um >.< I'm sorta extremely beyond that. Don't mean to sound ungrateful for your offer to help but that's basic and I make programs with 6k+ lines of code.

But, really, thanks for the offer. Also, I forgot to put a refresh button on and I might add one; thanks for the reminder.

EDIT: Working on version 1.1, which includes a Stop and Refresh button as well as larger buttons to make skinning easier/better as that's a huge part of it.

Heaven wrote:

Um >.< I'm sorta extremely beyond that. Don't mean to sound ungrateful for your offer to help but that's basic and I make programs with 6k+ lines of code.

But, really, thanks for the offer. Also, I forgot to put a refresh button on and I might add one; thanks for the reminder.

EDIT: Working on version 1.1, which includes a Stop and Refresh button as well as larger buttons to make skinning easier/better as that's a huge part of it.

good, cause i kinda noticed that there was no refresh lol

New version, as well as all versions thereafter includes code that checks the current version when the user visits http://darksauft.webs.com/VersionChecker.htm from the BPGP Browser. It gives your current version number, new version number, and tells you if you are up-to-date, or outdated. The checker page itself will always have a download link to the latest version there as well as, maybe, new and/or featured theme links.

As for the Stop/Refresh buttons they are finished, coded, and skinnable. Just adding some finishing touches before I update this page.

EDIT: Finished, uploaded, changed links and added a skinning tip.

any updates?

Noob wrote:

any updates?

Na. Hasn't seemed to be much need as of yet. Don't even know how many use it.