IE 6 not using blurred shadows on toolbar buttons.

I so want this to work.

Friday, February 16, 2007 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Is there a reason for this behavior?

 

 

  

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NightTrainthedark
Reply #21 Monday, February 19, 2007 5:20 AM
The Start panel should never be acting anything like that. Try killing explorer.exe and restarting.

Did you get my return email? Was tired and forgot to post here.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #22 Monday, February 19, 2007 5:53 AM
No I didnt get your emaul Craig.  
Killing explorer had no effect.  

NightTrainthedark
Reply #23 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:14 AM
All I got is...Try changing the fonts for classic widgets to a normal font and size, reboot.
Adam N has warned pretty clearly that messing with fonts for classic widgets can go nutty.
Seeing mIkeB's skin without any settings has really scrambled my nuggets.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #24 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:15 AM
And...why dosnt the mouseover text color change...how hard is that to make work?  

NightTrainthedark
Reply #25 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:19 AM
why dosnt the mouseover text color change...


It just doesn't. Wish it did, but it doesn't.   

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #26 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:21 AM
Classic fonts on my own skin are working great...those toolbar buttons are all assigned fonts...not classic.

I was having the start menu mouseover issue before I ever changed classic fonts.I think its a .tga issue...they can be damn flaky on the start menu,show hidden icons arrow and toolbar buttons.They stop being truly translucent.I still dont understand why WB dosnt use .png...they work a lot better everywhere else.DX,OD,etc...  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #27 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:23 AM
And are much smaller in file size...like half.  

NightTrainthedark
Reply #28 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:25 AM
Everything in the start panel supports png.

those toolbar buttons are all assigned fonts



Some buttons do use hard coded text settings. The "Post reply" button below is one example. Text is hard coded as black but uses your font setting.


I.R. Brainiac
Reply #29 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:27 AM
I'll try a .png then...

my post reply text is grey  

NightTrainthedark
Reply #30 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:46 AM
my post reply text is grey


Classic colors adjustment. Text normal..I think.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #31 Monday, February 19, 2007 3:56 PM
classic button text color  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #32 Monday, February 19, 2007 6:41 PM
Here is a brainteaser...grouped menu is using the favorites menu under the assigned menu image...as you mouse into it,it draws the edges properly???


I.R. Brainiac
Reply #33 Monday, February 19, 2007 10:19 PM
The reason I am picking this skin to pieces is I really want to make the best WB possible...its no longer good enough to get one pretty good,or looking good enough on my pc...they have to be as complete as possible...

I keep hoping someone from Stardock will take notice and address some of these issues with concrete info...if its impossible,tell us...if its fixable,fix it...if you never saw these probs...let us know.  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #34 Monday, February 19, 2007 10:59 PM
After removing all attributes in the grouped menu section,it still looks exactly the same...just uses the wrong mouseover.  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #35 Monday, February 19, 2007 11:00 PM
where are the master skinners when you need one?  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #36 Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:05 AM
I imported a .png for the start menu mouseover but SS converted it to .tga and its still not truly translucent.  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #37 Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:39 PM
1 down and ??? to go...I've lost track.  

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #38 Friday, February 23, 2007 2:01 AM
heeellllllllppp!  

NightTrainthedark
Reply #39 Friday, February 23, 2007 5:39 AM
I.R. The evrsion of your skin I have doesn't have the images input yet.

Did you import a mouseover image for the grouped menu? There are 4 states for it and it should work fine.

Are you using the MENU BACKGROUND for the grouped menu background? The grouped menu doesn't support translucency. You have to make a different menu for that just like you did with the favorites menu.

I have not updated to 5.5 yet. Still running build 85 over here in case it matters.

I imported a .png for the start menu mouseover but SS converted it to .tga and its still not truly translucent.


Have you messed with the transparency levels in the image properties in SKS? The version Ihave, you have changed that from 255 to 163. That could be doing something.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #40 Friday, February 23, 2007 6:06 AM
I.R. Here is a trick that might help you.

Take a fresh luna template and set all the classic colors to different colors. Red blue green, etc. Change the fonts to different fonts that you can easily notice with different colored shadows. Save the skin for the future. You can always load that to trace problem areas. I have found it to be the most useful tool.

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