GroupBox Background Skinning

Can it be done?

Friday, June 8, 2007 by Daiwa | Discussion: Skinning

I can't seem to get solid image GroupBox background images to display properly in XP. They display correctly in SKS but are filled with the button face color in apps when applied. I can use a transparent image with just a border only (transparent center) to get the border I want, but when I fill it with an image, the image only displays in the top 6-7 pixels of the box with the rest solid button face color.

Is this a "limitation" or am I missing something?

TIA
16 Reply 5 Referrals
ArileenDesign
Reply #1 Friday, June 8, 2007 4:15 AM
could you give us a shoot? in xp and one of SKS with the settings and pictures maybe

1nsomn1ac
Reply #2 Friday, June 8, 2007 5:56 AM
it cant be done

ArileenDesign
Reply #3 Friday, June 8, 2007 6:06 AM
it cant be done


quick question 1nsomn1ac are you there today in help spirit or again in troll spirit?

ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #4 Friday, June 8, 2007 8:24 AM
Yes we would need a screenie to see whats going on there??? Please post...
Spirits love em

SGT  

1nsomn1ac
Reply #5 Friday, June 8, 2007 8:42 AM
prove me wrong quentin and maybe you'll be promoted to master

ArileenDesign
Reply #6 Friday, June 8, 2007 8:51 AM
maybe you'll be promoted to master


Sorry guy i don't care to be promote i'm here since so little time and just to have fun and help when i can. It's not the first time you go on a tread and said you know all but tell nothing more than "i know and you not" but where your participation to this community where the help you provide to others?
my question was simple and nice, now i have my answer thanks.
have a good day

MikeB314
Reply #7 Friday, June 8, 2007 9:14 AM

In short, it can't be done in any consistant or reliable way.

Usually, only the outer few pixels of the groupbox image are painted, and the middle is filled in by Windows (using the button face color). Occasionally, Windows won't fill up the whole center, and only fill behind the parts that have text or other objects. When that happens, the groupbox tends to look like a sloppy patchwork. The best approach is to simply skin the borders of the groupbox. You do get a few more pixels to work with on the top edge where the groupbox label goes, so if you want to get fancy, that's the place to do it.


1nsomn1ac
Reply #8 Friday, June 8, 2007 9:19 AM
quentin please dont cry & stay focus on the subject & read what mikeb said

ArileenDesign
Reply #9 Friday, June 8, 2007 10:36 AM
quentin please dont cry & stay focus on the subject & read what mikeb said


i don't cry and more i laugh cause you think i could cry cause of you
You are right on the mater of groupbox BUT you are really wrong for the rest:
i never tell to Daiwa he can make them like he want, i just asked to see what he want, (cause english is not my natal language, i prefer get confirmation before answer)


vStyler
Reply #10 Friday, June 8, 2007 10:45 AM
Yeah this is one area is not skinnable by any skinning program,like mike said, u can get greative with borders and the header image also, and that's..about it.

This is one of Brainiac's pet peeves also.   

Daiwa
Reply #11 Friday, June 8, 2007 12:28 PM
Interestingly, it works & looks great in Display Properties but almost nowhere else.

C'est la vie.

Thanks, guys.

1nsomn1ac
Reply #12 Friday, June 8, 2007 12:46 PM
it's "tabs page" bitmap

Daiwa
Reply #13 Friday, June 8, 2007 1:16 PM
Tab page skinning seems to work fine, but that image is not used for the groupbox. Would be extra nice if WB6 were to fix this and restore dialog backgrounds.

We can always hope.

1nsomn1ac
Reply #14 Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:35 AM
We can always hope.


yep

You are right on the mater of groupbox BUT you are really wrong for the rest


what is the rest dumbdumb?

ArileenDesign
Reply #15 Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:19 AM
for the rest:
i never tell to Daiwa he can make them like he want, i just asked to see what he want, (cause english is not my natal language, i prefer get confirmation before answer)


that's the rest

and who are you to insult me

1nsomn1ac
Reply #16 Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:47 AM
insult? read again #3 then decide yourself, your.. dumb or blind or both
have a nice day

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