does right click background have to be a bmp or is png okay too?
Friday, February 20, 2009 by Vampothika | Discussion: Skinning
i am going to make my first right click to accompany my intoxica wb.......hmm i have some questions as im a noob right click skinner
1. is there coding involved? (as in having to change coding ect)
2. can the background be png or only bmp
3. i would love someone to volunteer and email me and give me some tips on how to make them...as im pretty confused
4. what are the arrows for?
5. when i have finally made it, how to i package it? is it zip?
thanks!!!
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Reply #2 Friday, February 20, 2009 5:25 PM
wow, thanks for that Lantec.........that helps me heaps....
Reply #3 Friday, February 20, 2009 5:50 PM
couple of tips:
1. If you are making one from a blind, use The UIS2 window frames for the background. If they have rounded corners, you have already put in the pixel editing work!
2. Rediscover mspaint 
Reply #4 Friday, February 20, 2009 5:57 PM
Heading into new territory ay, Kitty? 
Looking forward to useing/testing the result!
If you are making one from a blind, use The UIS2 window frames for the background. If they have rounded corners, you have already put in the pixel editing work!
Well.... any other pic *can* be used, even shaded PNGs/TGAs - with some careful modding 
(Been there - done that)
Reply #5 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:00 PM
hmm...im doing sort of okay so far........ i didnt realize that right click was actually so small...!! i guess the font is something i have to play with until i get it right..... i made my background image huge thinking the actual image would be bigger, i made it 350 x 500
........does that matter??
thankyou 2of3 for your tips.......
Reply #6 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:00 PM
[quote who="Snowman" reply="4" id="2067966"]Heading into new territory ay, Kitty?
Looking forward to useing/testing the result!
yeppers!!!!
Reply #7 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:18 PM
lol
it's so great to sit 2 inches from your screen staring at magic pink pixels....what a joy! 
Reply #8 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:24 PM
what about the margins......im having a bit of trouble with those....ive made my image wider to adjust (yes im doing this the hard way) the top of the frame has wings, the same as my top_pp frames in my wb that i have shown in my wip.....i guess just keep fugging with them till its right?
Reply #9 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:27 PM
try opening the skin with SKS5 and adjust the margins in skinstudio
Reply #10 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:40 PM
ohhh......i dont have 5 anymore......i ditched it for 6 
ill try to find it, i might still have it on my pc
okay, i found sk5, but i cant see where i can open and play with that background.........
Reply #11 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:44 PM
it's still available through impulse
Reply #12 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:49 PM
im sorry im so dumb guys.........i feel so stupid.........
Reply #13 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:49 PM
The Margins are just the same as for a WB, need to be set inside the part of image you do not want to be stretched, both ways, if you have an intricate pattern at the top, all the way, the part of it between the left and right width will still be stretched even when top width is set below pattern. Thus you need to keep any intricate designing to the edges of image so there is something between them to be stretchable. Hope this makes sense.
Reply #14 Friday, February 20, 2009 6:52 PM
AH!!! FINALLY got the margins right........ill THINK ill be okay now.........(i think) thanks for everyones help.......if i have more issues.......ill be back to post.
Reply #15 Friday, February 20, 2009 7:00 PM
Hey Vampothika, I was adding more info to my reply while you were posting.
Reply #16 Friday, February 20, 2009 7:00 PM
yes it does. thankyou nt
Reply #18 Friday, February 20, 2009 8:15 PM
So that would be about 1 minute then. 
Reply #19 Friday, February 20, 2009 8:24 PM
Ahh the JOY! who doesnt love magic pink?!? its pink its magic its fluffy its unicorns its flying elephants! you know what im saying that nice feeling you get 3 in the morning with your zombie screentan holding your hand over ctrl+alt+z and zoomed in 600%
Reply #20 Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:18 AM
hmm...new problem...how do you make the mouse over button sit *inside* the background area?....ive tried making it shorter but it dosent seem to work...........
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Reply #1 Friday, February 20, 2009 4:34 PM
not coding.........but settings contained within a .obskin or .menuskin file
bmp and you need to use magic pink to create transparency
best thing is to open one up and see what's in it.....change settings and see what they do
arrowpopup and arrowpopupselected are the only 2 you really need to worry about....they point to secondary menus
yes....copy the whole directory into a zip file