Project Zentzo [Windows Concept]

Prisoner said:

Blizarro said:

A startmenu replacement is possible. I remember back in my vb.5/6 days I hooked the start button and popped my own menu. I think I even hid the real one and added my own button. Way too long ago.

You would need to code everything from scratch. Pinning, most recently used, rebuilding the apps. Gosh. A lot more than I can think of. But with WPF, you make some very cool stuff.

Bottom line....it is possible. Its just going to take hella work.

Why not make a little script to create the button, let it be draggable, and simply open the start menu that's already there? Wouldn't that be a tad simpler to do?

Hell yeah. What kind of scripts? Now you sparked my interest. Maybe I can help out.

So when do we start?

this looks better then windows 7

So would it be possible to create the start menu as in the concept image?

Prisoner said:

The idea I had in mind was to make a GUI that adds a picture of a start orb (make it external from the executable so it can be edited by the user), make it movable, make it snap to things like the task bar, corners of the screen (this would be optional), things like that. And for opening the start menu, it would be as simple as sending either the "LWin" or "RWin" keys, left and right Windows keys, to open the start menu. My concept idea was this:

Code:

 
#SingleInstance, Force ; if another instance is open, force this one over it silently.
DetectHiddenWindows,on
OnMessage(0x201, "WM_LBUTTONDOWN")
WM_LBUTTONDOWN()
{
   PostMessage, 0xA1, 2
   return
}
; make it draggable
 
 
Menu,Tray,Click,1
Menu,Tray,NoStandard
Menu,Tray,DeleteAll
Menu,Tray,Add,Start Button,Nothing
Menu,Tray,Add,
Menu,Tray,Add,Move On, Move
Menu,Tray,Add,Move Off,moveoff
Menu,Tray,Add,
Menu,Tray,Add,Hide Icon,Hide
Menu,Tray,Add,
Menu,Tray,Add,E&xit,EXIT
; edit the tray right click menu
 
 
GUI:
Gui, Margin, 0, 0
Gui, Color, 000000
Gui -resize -sysmenu
Gui, +LastFound -Caption
WinSet, Region, 0-0 w40 h39 r1000-1000 E
 
Gui, Add, Picture, xm+0 ym+0 w38 h38 -0x200 -backgroundtrans gStart, 1.bmp
Gui,Show,Center Autosize,Start_Opener
; 1.bmp is the image to use as a start orb)
return
 
 
Start:
Send {LWin}
return
 
Hide: (yet to have the code added)
return
 
Move:
Gui +Caption
return
 
moveoff:
Gui -Caption
return
 
Nothing: (used for the tray text above, to make a place holder)
return
 
EXIT:
Exitapp

As you can probably see, not what you would get with advanced code...

Im sure you can use a script to tell the task bar to align center. so the taskbar icons are in the middle. Ive always wanted to try.

Cool stuff dude. Im gonna try it.