Is anyone interested in customizing solitaire, hearts, freecell, and spider solitaire?
Either no wants to or its too dayum hard to do it.
I checked around and only found one recent tutorial on how to overwrite the current backgrounds.
I guess im wondering if people would like an app to customize it. Im bored with StartOrbz and I think its time to release my next project.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks for responding.
It wouldnt be a tutorial. The app is done. Im just polishing everything up.
Doing this wasnt easy. It took days to figure out how to actually add new decks and backgrounds. I had to learn how the cardgames.dll file was used. A lot of trial and error.
I understand why it wasnt done before. To manually mod the files and add new decks took like 30 minutes. That didnt include photoshop time. And thats AFTER I figured out how to do it! I guess thats why nobody has done it.
Coding it wasnt fun either. I borrowed code from so many of my projects. It took about 5 days to code it all.
-Blizo
I skinned mine a while back the manual way when someone was asking how to do it. Figured the best way to find out how was to do it. I would have been nice if MS would have added the option to use a custom deck picture.
Hello blizarro, I've had been doing some browsing into the dll file, now I'm not sure but in order to add more decks choices, you would need to created a new set of data for that new deck, and twik some numbers here and there to acomodate the extra space for the actual deck prints y all 5 jpg files. am I overthinking it or am on the right path some help be apresiated
Nice work Blizarro. Didn't want to change my card backs, 'cos it was a long process(I know I'm lazy). Now it seems quite easy, thanks to you.
I remember the thread fritz :)
How to change card backs?
Just discovered this thread and I'm so glad I did! I love playing these games on-line, but a lot of the apps appear way too small on the screen. (And zooms and other enlarging links don't help.) Could any of your customizations include displaying the games in full screen mode? That would be great!!!
Wow, I thought no one even cared about this app. I backed it up.
This is no simple tweak. Ms did not want us to add decks.
To add new decks would require creating several xmls , jpgs and cabs. If you have been tinkering with the dll then you will see the standard files and how they are named.
Manually doing this would take hours.
If you want I will slip you the beta, you can add a new deck and then peek at how i did it. It only has one bug. 4 cards show incorrectly. Its a mapping issue that I havnt fixed. I gave up on this app since no one was interested.
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