So what is bbCinematics? What bbCinematics aims to do is provide a no nonsense simplicity and ease of use, and functionality, with a focus on resource minimalism, and build orientated and aimed rather squarely in mind at gaming and theater goers. The idea is hide the desktop eyesores and enjoy the cinematic black bar experience running stuff in windowed mode preferably boarder-less I'd recommend pairing this with the program boarderless gaming.
https://github.com/C...rderless-Gaming
you may wish to pair it with TimerTool as well which helps reduce latency a little bit I have mine to startup with windows with a registry tweak just save as a .reg file and place TimerTool in your BB4WIN plugins folder and fix or adjust the file path as needed and don't ask me why it uses two \\'s in the file path name by intention for whatever reason to startup properly so keep that in mind.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "WindowsDefender"=hex(2):22,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,\ 46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,\ 00,73,00,20,00,44,00,65,00,66,00,65,00,6e,00,64,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,4d,00,\ 53,00,41,00,53,00,43,00,75,00,69,00,4c,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,22,00,00,\ 00 "TimerTool"="\"C:\\Program Files\\BB4WIN\(BB4WIN 31!73 CINEMATICS)\\plugins\\TimerTool\\TimerTool.exe\" -t 0.5014 -minimized"
https://github.com/tebjan/TimerTool
Anyways bbCinematics is really just a configuration overhaul or facelift for bbZero 1.18 rc6 that's been also been stripped down of a lot of unneeded plugins for now at least though any of the ones that work for that will of course work no problem if you still wish to use them. Hopefully mojmir's new BBZero build comes in the near future and irons out some some issues and/or expands some features one thing atm that's unfortunate is blackbox.exe crashing doing certain stuff from time Auto hide is bit glitchy as well, but my extensions hotkeys toggling gets around that problem. I'd recommend reading that extensions.rc file as well to get a idea of the different menu shortcuts, but here's a general lay down of it.
This all applies to clicking on any empty desktop space with the following commands.
- Right Click: Brings up Blackbox start menu (Start on SystemBarEx taskbar does as well)
- Alt + Left/Right Click: Brings up task menu
- Ctrl + Left/Right Click: Switches Workspace next/prev
- Mid Click + Ctrl: Brings up configuration menu
- Mid Click + Alt: Brings up Styles folder to change the look and theme of BB4WIN
- Mid Click: Brings up This PC menu a drive path to browse any of your local disks
- Forward Mouse Navigation Click X1: Brings up a Desktop menu
- Back Mouse Navigation Click X2: Brings up a Taskbar menu
- Shift + Right Click: Loads/Unloads plugin - SystemBarEx (repeat to load or unload)
- Shift + Left Click: Loads/Unloads plugin - bbIconBox (repeat to load or unload)
The Blackbox menu itself has a lot of stuff built into it as well everything by default should work in that as far as I can tell other than calculator that you'll have to configure the path to it manually because I don't use the default configuration path to it I'm using the retro calculator from XP since I hate the Windows 10 calculator app personally which probably knowing Microsoft spies on you every time you open it. Specifically you'd want to change this in Menu.rc
[exec] (Calculator) {"D:\Program Files\calc.exe"} change to the following or delete it whichever is more preferable [exec] (Calculator) {"C:\Windows\SysWOW64"}
It's all setup to be quick, easy, and painless as far as the Blackbox start menu is concerned the stuff you'd likely really want to find is at your fingertips pretty quickly and easily and not buried a million feet deep in submenu's. I put a few programs on the start menu for convenience (command prompt, power shell, calculator, paint, defrag, task manager and submenu's) for all the major stuff you'd want to quickly access most likely.
You'll want to tweak these in the extensions.rc to your PC users name to get these menu's to function properly and it's worth the few seconds and minimal effort it takes!
# Taskbar menu blackbox.desktop.X1Click: @BBCore.ShowMenu C:\Users\Invasmani\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar # Desktop menu blackbox.desktop.X2Click: @BBCore.ShowMenu C:\Users\Invasmani\Desktop
I made a dedicated thread to this so just I don't hijack the bbZero thread with updates and changes any further. This is really just a fine tuned configuration re-haul around it.
Added a style to closely replicate STEAM client look and feel enjoy based on a suggestion from kylxmaster's in another thread. It just seemed like a very natural fit. Also decided to show off how the desktop menu, this pc menu, and task menu's look using the extensions.rc tweaks really liking the convenience factor of them feels rather natural and intuitive. Anyway updated the build link up top with the new STEAM client theme style it turned out decently I probably do a few altercations of it a bit later down the round. I added/updated a few new styles based on a old style of my Mechanical Scorpion. They aren't 100% yet I've just fixed the toolbar for now I'll have to update the menu later to match. With the latest upload the STEAM client SystemBarEx portion of the style looks a bit differently at least til I have time to fix it to look a bit more properly. I had it setup with each style parts manually configured on SystemBarEx's style method assignment section, but I've since switch to using the default. Anyways here's the latest build configuration setup you can copy the RC file from SystemBarEX in the original bbCinematic zip if you want STEAM client to look like it does in the screenshot posted for now here's v2 with the added styles and the new (Shift+ Right Click) & (Shift + Left Click) desktop commands to load/unload (SystemBarEx/bbIconBox) plugins enjoy the newly added functionality. More to come in the future most likely to expand upon a few area's a style refinements and few more commands and plugins bundled in enjoy.