SkinStudio....Those Damn buttons!

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 by 2of3 | Discussion: Skinning

I've been doing logons for a while now and have started on a window blind. Now I've run into my first major problem: In the section "active window" "inactive window" I've replaced the images for "close window" "minimize" "tile" etc. with custom buttons of my own, but when I apply the skin, the G.D. buttons aren't visible! They aren't checked as transparent and I haven't changed the visibility values, so in my mind they should act just like the default xp buttons! Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
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vStyler
Reply #1 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:07 PM
Buttons in WB are positioned via the X Y co-ordinates for each button, this can be quite tricky if you have the wrong the bottons will not show as they arent positioned to apply in the correct place, My suggestion is to trial and error with these settings. I'm not sure if this is what your talking about but give it a try.

2of3
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:14 PM
Sounds about right! As I understand it, as long as all the images are lined up (x y values the same) it should work. They do work, actually..... they're just invisible! I can click on the correct area ( where the button should be) and it does what it should, just can't see the little buggers!

BoXXi
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:20 PM
on the per pixel frames the titlebar buttons have 8 states, as opposed to the 6 or 3 states that the non perpixel titlebar buttons use. Could that be where you are going wrong? I know I did at first.

2of3
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:41 PM
Sounds promising! I've tried not to touch the "per pixel" items as I really don't understand what they are as opposed to "glyph image" and such. As far as I can see though, these don't have a "per pixel" attribute

2of3
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:55 PM
Still at a loss.... anybody?

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:55 PM
screenshot SKS for us and show us what you have for settings

2of3
Reply #7 Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:26 AM
Before I start on a major change on a skin I always make a backup copy so that I have a version that works to go back to! I've deleted the faulty version, so I'll have to try again. I'll make some screenshots when I start up again. Thanx for looking in on me!

ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #8 Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:49 AM
2of3 send me the skin folder in a zip file and I'll give it a good look and show you what I find in a video of sks to fix the problems.
WWW Link

SGT  

2of3
Reply #9 Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:39 AM
I'll do that! I'm in the middle of paintin' the house so it won't be right away!
thanx

2of3
Reply #10 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:52 PM
2of3 send me the skin folder in a zip file


I've sent the skin..... did ya get it?

2of3
Reply #11 Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:12 PM
Fixed! buttons have to be .tga not .bmp!

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