start menu item mouse over

Monday, September 10, 2007 by CraigSnedeker | Discussion: Skinning

Ive seen people make themes where in the start panel, the items (i.e. my documents, firefox, etc) were a custom image, not a blue color. how do i do this? thanks
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vStyler
Reply #1 Monday, September 10, 2007 2:43 PM
In SKS5 its Start Panel > Item in the tree on left.

CraigSnedeker
Reply #2 Monday, September 10, 2007 5:40 PM
ok. one more question (not related) i made this custom start menu, saved them as a PNG, and SS puts these white lines on all the sides i cant get rid of. do u know how?

NightTrainthedark
Reply #3 Monday, September 10, 2007 6:46 PM
Check your transparency settings in Skinstudio for the images. The settings are not correct for a .png (.tga).

CraigSnedeker
Reply #4 Monday, September 10, 2007 6:58 PM
how do i do that?

vStyler
Reply #5 Monday, September 10, 2007 7:27 PM
Make sure that you have the checkboxes for transparency and translucency checked in SKS or else it will be treated like a non-trans image.

CraigSnedeker
Reply #6 Monday, September 10, 2007 7:34 PM
i did that. i also set the transparenty thingy to PER PIXEL ALPHA. did i do something wrong to something more i need to do?

vStyler
Reply #7 Monday, September 10, 2007 7:41 PM
not that I can think of unless your not saving your PNG's correctly.

CraigSnedeker
Reply #8 Monday, September 10, 2007 7:49 PM
i do that. ialso set the transparentsy to PER PIXEL ALPHA

vStyler
Reply #9 Monday, September 10, 2007 8:17 PM
upload it to www.sendspace.com leave a link, I or someone will take a look.   

CraigSnedeker
Reply #10 Monday, September 10, 2007 8:19 PM
ill use a differant host, but ok.

sleepydawg
Reply #11 Monday, September 10, 2007 8:26 PM
Margins might be out of place. Pumakitten has a great set of tuts here.WWW Link
Think I read something about the margins leaving white lines. Wish I could help you more but I am still trying to make a skin myself. Good luck.

vStyler
Reply #12 Monday, September 10, 2007 9:44 PM
ill use a differant host


why?

CraigSnedeker
Reply #13 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:02 PM
sleepydawg, ill try it, thanks

vStyler, lol i dont know

Vampothika
Reply #14 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:09 AM
jesus.......try also looking in 'painting options' and make sure perpixel is set to 1 not 0. check the Background Effect and set that to 1 also.

Also click on STartPanel and enable hide shadows.......

hope that helps....

sublime187
Reply #15 Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:43 AM
what i did was edit the file with xp paint and filled in the wite with magic pink! then make sure that you do what vstyler said in reply#5

sublime187
Reply #16 Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:48 AM
ohh also in accordance with my last post:::

i dont know witch version of skss you have but if it applies, select the transparency options pull-down menu and set it to"use magic pink" i dont remember the exact wording but its a pulldown with three options (use magic pink, use alpha blening, or use per-pixel blending

CraigSnedeker
Reply #17 Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:44 PM
thanks kittymalone and sublime20 ill give it a try

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