inactive and active titlebars (the blue ones)

Saturday, February 24, 2007 by Vampothika | Discussion: Skinning

okay.....when im flipping through my skinstudio going through my own skin, I always come across two blue frames, for inactive and active, for the titlebar and the sides and the bottom.  now I know that some dont skin this, and ive seen some that do.  When I tried to skin them myself, experimenting as I do...i actually lost my buttons! the min, max and close, they just dissapeared.  I did skin the two titlebars with my windowframe2uis....so was that the reason? and I skinned the sides with the right and left uis and the bottom with the bottom uis....

 

so how does one skin those inactive/active blue frames and keep their buttons, and eat their cake too?

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Cavan1
Reply #1 Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:34 PM
Hey Kitty; I downloaded and opened one of your skins to be sure. The blue ones I see in it are Active and Inactive translucent for WB 5+ skins. You will find them in Explorer tree in Window Borders-Per Pixel, along with their own button sets.

Vampothika
Reply #2 Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:48 PM
no way! you downloaded one of my skins just to make sure? ...you went to alot of trouble to help me Cavan........have I told you I love you today?   you indeed rock....  

Cavan1
Reply #3 Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:10 PM

Vampothika
Reply #4 Monday, February 26, 2007 5:45 PM
mmmmmm.....I just tried to skin what we are talking about..window border per pixel...i had some sucess, and some unsuccess..my buttons still did not show, even though i skinned the per pixel set with my own, they were png..i wonder if that mattered? and I used my normal buttons for the skin, i didnt make any new ones. and my window right uis and left uis would not resize in one of the windows, despite my efforts in 'margins' to reajust the settings...im a little stumped..
got any suggestions dear?

Cavan1
Reply #5 Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:53 PM
they were png..i wonder if that mattered?


Not sure but I think using png/tga is the best way to go whenever possible, better then bitmap with magic pink.
I have a skin I have been playing at for awhile, png buttons (not a complete set) I could not, tried everything I could think of, get buttons to not show up. Had all transparency and translucency off for buttons and caption but buttons were still there.

and my window right uis and left uis would not resize in one of the windows


Are you using uis as per pixel, the way the top, bottom and sides match in per pixel is different than uis. Top is complete imag left to right sides start under it not beside it as in uis skin, bottom is same complete image left to right.



Vampothika
Reply #6 Thursday, March 1, 2007 5:37 AM
  will give it a go......

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