Project Zentzo [Windows Concept]

[sergiogarcia9]

My newest Windows 8 Project, which i have named Zentzo.
Enjoy and please leave a comment

Attached are the main OS interface, but here is the installation part of the concept:
http://i40.tinypic.com/29axie0.png
http://i40.tinypic.com/2d91clk.png

 

[Prisoner]

Very nice.. I wanna help!

Is the interface Photoshopped? Or is it an actual working UI? If not, I could probably help make a nice repositional start menu opener.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

It's just a mockup done in Photoshop, but i would love if it could come to life

 

[pebbly]

thats a nice concept there sergiogarcia ,like the wallpaper on the install page

 

[Prisoner]

I think I'll see if I can do this. I don't know how exactly I'll do it, but I will make it happen! :shock:

 

[sergiogarcia9]

I think I'll see if I can do this. I don't know how exactly I'll do it, but I will make it happen! :shock:

Wow, that sounds like a freakin awesome idea Let me know mate, i am as always interested in helping where i can

 

[Prisoner]

Ugly, I know, but the basic concept is working, as you can see....

I just thought of an idea. If you wanted to use an icon to do this, you could probably have it send a LWin key to the system (LWin = Left Windows key) to open the start menu.. Get an icon that looks like a start orb, then rename it to an invisible key, like ALT+0151 (—), which usually doesn't show up on the system fonts.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

*Is confused by the coders language* (lol)

So, it can be done? The start menu concept can come to life?

 

[Prisoner]

With a lot more work, some cleaning on the image, and hopefully some update to the scripting language, yes. That's a lot to ask for, but I think it's possible, with workarounds.

What I meant by the icon thing is out of date, I just checked. Kinda sucks, but it doesn't matter...

 

[Blizarro]

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.

 

[Prisoner]

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?

 

[Blizarro]

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.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

So when do we start?

 

[CoolioG]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

 

[StealthyBoss]

this looks better then windows 7

 

[Prisoner]

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:

#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...

 

[sergiogarcia9]

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

 

[Prisoner]

Yeppers.
EDIT: Just noticed how the START MENU looked. That might take a bit more GUI work on my or Blizzaro's part, but it might be do-able. Though, you could always settle for the default.

 

[Blizarro]

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:

#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.