Task Pane Gone

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 by Strife7650 | Discussion: Skinning

I got a skin recently called experimental which looks cool! however the task panel disappears when i load the skin for some reason, its a pain with out the task panel and i was wondering how i could fix it in skin studio or something. the task panel shows up fine on the preview in skin studio but once the skin is on the task panel disappears, can anyone help me? please reply and i can give you a copy of the skin to look at.
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vStyler
Reply #1 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 6:53 AM
Screenshot would help and a link to the skin.

Strife7650
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:35 AM
sry about that

[URL=http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=taskpanehelpxn0.png][/URL]


https://www.wincustomize.com/download.aspx?skinid=5978&libid=1

Strife7650
Reply #3 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:37 AM



WWW Link

Strife7650
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:40 AM
sry the picture isn't coming out well so heres a link to a good size shot
Task pane in studio and how it actually looks in XP

Skin link


any help with this is much appreciated!!

NightTrainthedark
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:44 AM
The skin looks fine. Are you or have you installed any other software that may have messed up things on your system?

Strife7650
Reply #6 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:55 AM
the task pane shows up in your windows? I just now tried to redownload, and put up the skin again but it failed to give me a task pane.

vStyler
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:59 AM
Doesn't look fine here... I deleted the shellstyle.xps and re-imported a background for the shell.. Now the shellstyle shows up.. I would delete the .xps and rebuild it, shouldn't take long.

milksama
Reply #8 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:59 AM

I loaded the skin up here and do see a few problems with it. One such being that the task panel, in fact, does not load.

You may want to inform the skin author in their page in the gallery.


vStyler
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:00 AM
Oops didint realize it isnt your skin, It's AVman's.... yes inform him. There is some errant code in his .xps.

Strife7650
Reply #10 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:02 AM
how do you do that exactly, i've changed small things in the skin but i don't know how to re-import a background for the shell

NightTrainthedark
Reply #11 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:07 AM
I only originally looked at the skin in SKS. After applying I dont have the task panes either. XPS file is corrupt.

vStyler
Reply #12 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:09 AM
I'd choose another skin Strife.. there are thousand's in the WB gallery with FAR less errors.

Strife7650
Reply #13 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:09 AM
how do you get the right .xps file? I am really attached to this skin, and i just wanna know how to get the task pane to show up, if i have to learn to do something, then i'll learn, but i wanna keep this skin. so do you have to program write the .xps file yourself or do you have to find it somewhere, the other errors on the skin don't bother me at all, i just need the dang task pane.

vStyler
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:55 AM
open all the shell images from SKS into a grapic editor.. and save them.. the go to the WB folder.. and delete shellstyle.xps Then simply open the skin again in SKS and reimport all the images you previously saved and SKS will write a new .xps for you.

Strife7650
Reply #15 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:01 AM
thanks for the help, i wouldn't have been able to do anything without your advice, i'll try and make a new theme out of this one so that this one works completely, and by the way SKS means the skin studio right? what kind of graphic editor do you suggest? is there a good free one or just use paintshop?

vStyler
Reply #16 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:03 PM
Yes Skinstudio, as far as Gfx.. all I have ever used is Photoshop.

Strife7650
Reply #17 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 1:40 PM
for fixing the task pane do you take out all the shellstyle.xps files, there are multiple ones in the folder, cause well i just tried to fix it but it didn't work, so i'm gonna try again, its annoying me to no end!! lol

vStyler
Reply #18 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 1:49 PM
theres only 1 shellstyle.xps... delete it from the WB's folder... and start re-importing the images.. SKS will automatically create a new .xps file.

Strife7650
Reply #19 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:13 PM
ya should i not worry about the shellstyle~.xps? sides that i reimported all the xp shell things or should i just reimport the entire skin piece by piece? and then afterward i should i just apply the skin again to check the task panel? I'm sorry that i'm so bad at this, i just wanna learn how to do this so i can start making my own, i'm gonna use this as a stepping stone.

vStyler
Reply #20 Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:35 PM
Yes that's how to do it, delete that .xps too, its just a backup, start with a clean slate , import images one by one, set your text colors and mousovers and save, apply and check ur panel, start easy with the background panel.

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