That New Windows XP Icon For ZSNES Is Sleak!

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:47 am

This new version of ZSNES that I downloaded today has a fantastic anti-aliased Windows XP icon. People don’t normally pay attention to those kinds of small things, but I found it almost as important as a feature addition. Whoever designed that icon, nice job!

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:10 am

You might want to thank cdbsi, if he ever bothers to re-register.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:23 pm

Agozer wrote:You might want to thank cdbsi, if he ever bothers to re-register.

That guy is my hero.

LDAWG · Post by **LDAWG** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:15 am

Hehe, I was one of the people "mouthing off" to cbdsi, to get his Icon "XP Compliant"
(on the old Forums).
Yes, he sure came through!

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:18 am

He did reregister.

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/profile.p ... file&u=103

And his icon does kick serious arse.

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:31 am

LDAWG wrote:Hehe, I was one of the people "mouthing off" to cbdsi, to get his Icon "XP Compliant"
(on the old Forums).
Yes, he sure came through!

dido!

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:44 am

Clements wrote:He did reregister.

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/profile.p ... file&u=103

And his icon does kick serious arse.

Everything is just fine and dandy then.

Magus` · Post by **Magus`** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:05 am

PS - It's 'sleek'.

cdbsi · Post by **cdbsi** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:37 pm

sprite wrote:This new version of ZSNES that I downloaded today has a fantastic anti-aliased Windows XP icon. People don’t normally pay attention to those kinds of small things, but I found it almost as important as a feature addition. Whoever designed that icon, nice job!

Great! I'm glad you like it! My main goal was for the majority of users to enjoy the icon.

Perfect.

snkcube wrote:
Agozer wrote:You might want to thank cdbsi, if he ever bothers to re-register.
That guy is my hero.

Clements wrote:He did reregister.

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/profile.p ... file&u=103

And his icon does kick serious arse.

sprite wrote:
LDAWG wrote:Hehe, I was one of the people "mouthing off" to cbdsi, to get his Icon "XP Compliant"
(on the old Forums).
Yes, he sure came through!
dido!

Thanks!

P.S. - I'm baaaack!

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:37 pm

You certainly took your time.

cdbsi · Post by **cdbsi** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:40 pm

Nach fixed my account for me. I was registered on July 29th but my account was inactive and I couldn't activate it.

Hurray.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:20 pm

I personnaly use the 48*48 version.
"It perfectly fits", to quote good ol' Indiana.

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:16 am

cdbsi wrote:Great! I'm glad you like it! My main goal was for the majority of users to enjoy the icon.

All of us like it!
It sure looks awesome! Can you tell us what you used to make it. Oh, and have you ever tried rendering icons in 3D Studio MAX in *PNG and converting them to icons? That's how all the Windows XP icons were created; with 3dsmax and David Gould's toon shader plug-in called Illustrate!

cdbsi · Post by **cdbsi** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:08 am

The only tool I used was Paint Shop Pro 8.02, basically the icon is made from vectors but the SFC logo has a few added effects.

Sweeeeet-a!!

EDIT: Doesn't ZSNES rock?!!

@Grinvader: It's good to be back.

"No ticket!" - Indiana from the Last Crusade

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:59 pm

Edit: Not only do I love how cleanly it's executed, but the idea very much too!

In my previous post I wrote:Browsing for ROMs is especially inconvenient with ZSNES

I take my words back. It's not inconvenient at all. I made that statement without proper research. So yeah... it would be only fare if you threw things at me. (Might I suggest expensive delicious snacks?)

rage46 · Post by **rage46** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:06 am

Browsing for roms for zsnes? What do you mean?

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:15 am

rage46 wrote:Browsing for roms for zsnes? What do you mean?

He means the directory tree browser that opens when you click load.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:31 am

Agozer wrote:
rage46 wrote:Browsing for roms for zsnes? What do you mean?
He means the directory tree browser that opens when you click load.

This means that he can't read all of the name on his roms like "Far East of Eden Zero.smc" and is mad about it. This is partially sarcastic.

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:36 am

Oblivion wrote:
Agozer wrote:
rage46 wrote:Browsing for roms for zsnes? What do you mean?
He means the directory tree browser that opens when you click load.
This means that he can't read all of the name on his roms like "Far East of Eden Zero.smc" and is mad about it. This is partially sarcastic.

Ahh, I see now.

Post by **Nach** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:09 pm

Maybe I should try to fix up the load menu and make it a bit more feature rich?

The Sage Of Time · Post by **The Sage Of Time** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:40 pm

I never had any problem with the load menu, it's in fact very nice if you ask me.
Although, I suppose I can see why some people eould be bothered with it. Guess it's just a matter of taste.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:39 pm

Only a tree-view interface would properly illustrate the file structure to inexperienced users, but the low-resolution GUI is prohibitive.

sprite · Post by **sprite** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:28 pm

Ichinisan finally wrote:the low-resolution GUI is prohibitive.

Phew! Now that someone had the guts to say it first, I can honestly say that I don't like the GUI either; at all. There; I said it

It would be nice if it could be changed into a normal OS interface, but this might be a matter of principal and tradition, so it's probably not going to happen.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:35 pm

sprite wrote:
Ichinisan finally wrote:the low-resolution GUI is prohibitive.
Phew! Now that someone had the guts to say it first, I can honestly say that I don't like the GUI either; at all. There; I said it It would be nice if it could be changed into a normal OS interface, but this might be a matter of principal and tradition, so it's probably not going to happen.

It's more of a matter of cross-platform compatibility; the current GUI works with both Windows and Linux. A replacement would have to be written in something like GTK or wxWidgets.

Kagerato · Post by **Kagerato** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:43 pm

GTK wouldn't work effectively because the runtime on Windows is huge. It's about the same size as the .NET runtime (they're both ridiculous).

They lead to small end user executables (really), but you can't just expect every platform the software is run on to have the runtime. Then you're stuck, because of the prohibitive size of distributing the runtime itself (and also, an administrator has to install it and do so successfully; GTK can get tricky on Win32 especially with multiple versions).

Plus there's the fact that GTK, like most Linux/GNU software, is not ideally distibuted as binary packages. Building from source is the preferred method; then you get whatever you decided to build and nothing more (not to mention potential optimization benefits).

All in all, I think GTK would be a bad choice.

For alternatives, there's more than I can name. wxWindows is reportedly very easy to develop with, but your base executable will be around one megabyte (somewhat less without excess debugging information and the like, I imagine).

Qt can't be used for Windows development for free, so that's at least partly out of the picture. You could say you're developing only for Linux/GNU and have somebody on the 'outside' build your win32 binaries, of course.

FLTK looks like it promotes organized, clear code and small executable size for cross-platform applications using GUIs. It's not the most well known or widely used, but it would likely work (in the theoretical sense).

Tcl/Tk I don't know much about.

And there's a ton more interfaces, frameworks, wrappers, and other forms of abstraction layers which sound good, but are really probably not a good choice for most programmers in any task (either because they're not actively maintained or because of their limitations).

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