Newbie needs a hint with the design of a skin - Window Title
Sunday, December 13, 2009 by Drachenstein66 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Hi there
After many years I installed WindowBlinds again. And finally I even found my favorite skin I used before (see https://forums.wincustomize.com/371349)
Of course this skin is not up to date. So I downloaded Skin Studio and now (without having any idea what I'm doing *g*) I'm trying to make this skin work again.
So I just created and implemented successfully new pictures for checkboxes and radio buttons (which did not appear anymore with this skin).
But one thing I cannot solve. The title bar has a few disturbing pixels:
In Skin Studio it looks like this:
If I check the image, everything seems to be okay:
Any ideas what's wrong here?
Thanks a lot - Wolfgang
Reply #2 Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:51 AM
Jazzymir
Hero! You're right, of course it was the left margin, it was somehow overlapping with another element. The "pixel error" was just the upper left corner from the bitmap behind.
I spent so much time earlier today to check each pixel of the bitmap etc. etc. and at the end the solution is so simple 
Thanks so much for this hint!
Reply #3 Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:21 PM
The other element is a "button". It's a mask for the rounded edge of the titlebar. To fix it, go to the tiltlebar buttons section (in the UIS2 frames section) and select the first button on the list (violaceous\b-bar.bmp) Go to the position tab and move the button to the left. To me -5 looks to be the correct position.
If I have been unclear, I'll post a screenshot for you.
Reply #4 Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:28 PM
I forgot to say that the image count for that button should be 6, not 3 like it is.
Reply #5 Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:36 PM
Thanks, forgot to tell that together with the fix for the margin I also corrected this.
I've adjusted some other things too, and now I'm very happy with my new old skin (although of course still some things are missing like start menu, taskbar, Internet Explorer 8 design etc.).
I'm impressed, it's really a cool thing this SkinStudio, unbelievable all the things you can modify! But it's a time killer, I spent the whole day with it - but at least it was worth it for this nice skin 
Reply #6 Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Imagine how much time is spent building a skin from scratch 
Reply #7 Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:21 PM
Yeah, that was my though as well.
Only the concept with a plan for all objects required and how they shall look like including the different states for buttons, checkboxes and so on. Maybe different styles. Afterwards the work with Photoshop. Testing. Different versions of programs (e.g. Internet Explorer), unforseen behaviour of WB or SKS.... 
Respect!
So it's a very intense hobby if one wants to create really good skins. But it's a very nice job, better than model railways (if this is called like this in English) or such stuff 
P.S. OT: sorry, I don't find a setting for notifications of answers/updates in a thread, can somebody tell me where this is located?
Reply #9 Monday, December 14, 2009 5:07 AM
No settings for notifications (like email notification) but you have seen this, I'm sure:
Reply #10 Monday, December 14, 2009 8:57 AM
Yeah, that's better than nothing. But if I had to visit each forum where a reply could wait for me instead of being informed by mail it would take a lot of time 
Reply #11 Monday, December 14, 2009 10:45 PM
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Reply #1 Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:15 AM
Just a guess....try going over the magic pink areas again.....make sure the color is 255, 0,0. Sometimes, if you don't have those areas colored exactly right, they will not look right. Also check your left sizing margin, to make sure it is inside the actual image. Hope this helps.