my new problem... (last one i hope!)

Sunday, March 2, 2008 by Vampothika | Discussion: Skinning

okays.......  my disabled font on my photoshop menu is very unreadable........now it is cause of a colour? (i have a white there i cant get rid of)  i have made sure that every single font dosent have any special effects like bluring ect.....

if you want ill post a pic........ its really fustrating me, cause i used to be able to solve this problem.....but with vista, i got no idea, i know there will be some lil trick to fixing it........  any help would be greatly appreciated......yet again.......

vogliadicane
Reply #1 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:10 AM
Had the same problem. Could fix it by editing the colors in the .uis (or.sss) itself (shut down SkS before). The disabled font is represented by "ButtonShadow", the shadow color (guess the one that annoys you)is ButtonLight. These colors influence some other things (separator lines in Photoshop for example) so you have to play around a bit.

You can also try the same color manipulations from SkS but from my experience it doesn´t work propperly...

P.S. I got the feeling that some colors are not RGB but BGR or some other mix (but not the ones mentioned above as far as I remember...)
vogliadicane
Reply #2 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:15 AM
also make shure that most fonts are not linked to system fonts in the .uis (there´s a thread here that describes how to do that). If you have a list of more than 4 fonts at [SystemFonts] change that as described...
Vampothika
Reply #3 Monday, March 3, 2008 4:05 AM
thanks for yr help vog........i ended up just making the damn menu background lighter.........  ( 
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #4 Monday, March 3, 2008 4:14 AM

I've yet to find anywhere in SK6 where you can change any of these colours. I either use SK5 or edit the uis with wordpad.

Anyway, in SK5 you can set the menu disabled text to 'flat' which will get rid of the shadow. The other way is to set the button highlight colour to a darker colour.

Vampothika
Reply #5 Monday, March 3, 2008 5:46 AM
im trying to hunt you down on msn my dear vulcan.......need yr input, advice......and the rest......

i mucked around with those colours to no avail......used to be no probs in sk5 had that down pat to an art....oh well...
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #6 Monday, March 3, 2008 5:54 AM
Haven't got that installed yet. This is a new Vista install I'm on and not everything is up and running. Will get it installed later today...
Vampothika
Reply #7 Monday, March 3, 2008 6:03 AM
wicked.........cant wait
Xiandi
Reply #8 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:18 PM
I've yet to find anywhere in SK6 where you can change any of these colours.


It's in 'Change System Colors', when the 'edit colors' window comes up, there is a dropdown box at the top. Choose the second option.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #9 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:27 PM
Yeah, found it earlier   

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