The Un-Official WindowBlinds/SkinStudio Documentation Project
Thursday, September 11, 2003 by Koasati | Discussion: Skinning
The Un-Official WindowBlinds/SkinStudio Documentation Project
Documentation for skinning WindowBlinds using Skinstudio is sorely lacking. The intention of this thread is to gather as much info as possible about the subject. I think a few rules need to observed, to keep this thread on track.
1. Keep the chit-chat to a minimum.... any comment that doesn't contribute to the purpose of this thread, and threatens to hijack it, will be deleted.
2. If you have a question, begin the comment with QUESTION:
If you have an answer to a Question, begin your comment with ANSWER to #xx: (#xx being the post number of the question)
If you have a tip, start the comment with TIP:
You get the idea.
3. Please do not post a solution if you're guessing. Be sure you know what you're saying is correct, otherwise you're not helping anyone.
4 I would like to see images in this thread only when that would help explain the problem or solution, BUT optimize your images before you post them here.
Use jpg, and compress until it hurts.
Learn to use the image insertion feature before you post the image. (I don't want to see a bunch of red X's) (You can't uploaded images from your harddrive)
Your image should only show the relevant parts of the skin, or SkinStudio interface. (NO FULL DESKTOP IMAGES!) Some of us are on dialup.
If you don't know how to use the feature, or how to optimize jpgs, don't ask in this thread, start a new one in the HELP section.
Hopefully we will have most of our top skinners contributing to project... you know how you are.. 
LET'S DO IT! Who will be the first to contribute?
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Reply #22 Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:16 AM
| SUGGESTION: Using the Quote feature would help...and you wouldn't need to worry about using the post # (need to add the name of the person being quoted). |
I hope this thread isn't dying already...... 
Reply #23 Friday, September 19, 2003 9:18 AM
Reply #24 Friday, September 19, 2003 2:06 PM
QUESTION: How come sometimes when I set an image to Tile the Image, it continues to stretch...no matter what...specifically on titlebars, and the progressbar background to name a few...Is there a list of areas that DON'T support tiling or is there a bug somewhere I'm missing a patch for...I'm a newb
ANSWER: Sometimes if wb\ss gets stuck like that you can change the image,margins and tiling\stretching settings temporarily and save.Then go back and put them how you want them and usually they will start working correctly again.If not,try editing the code directly.
Not sure why but I couldnt get the titlebar text background to tile.It stretched no matter what I did,even using transparecy it stretched behind the transparent areas.
my quote thingy dont work!
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Reply #25 Friday, September 26, 2003 6:00 PM
Plus it calls for 2 images tiled.WRONG.Its one image stretched,so be warned,even the image behind it will be stretched beneath the transparent sections of your graphic if you use .tga
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Reply #26 Friday, September 26, 2003 8:44 PM
makes complete sense to me
Reply #27 Friday, September 26, 2003 10:36 PM
Reply #28 Saturday, September 27, 2003 3:47 AM
| #27 by Skinner I.R. Brainiac - 9/26/2003 10:36:39 PM Tip: Tho it dosnt tell you this ,the menubar is TWO images,stacked top to bottom |
ADDITTION: Top one is active window and the bottom one shows on inactive windows.
Reply #29 Saturday, September 27, 2003 5:43 AM
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Reply #31 Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:11 PM
| #15 by Skinner I.R. Brainiac - 9/13/2003 7:52:41 AM ANSWER to #14once you add a logoff\shutdown button background,the buttons themselves stop reacting to mouseovers. |
TIP: Look at Mormegil's Orion (cobalt) V1...He seems to have worked it out
Reply #32 Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:33 PM
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Reply #34 Monday, September 29, 2003 1:12 PM
| #33 by Skinner I.R. Brainiac - 9/29/2003 7:52:54 AM Tip:you can make the user text disappear if you set the text angle to 1800. |
Reply #35 Monday, September 29, 2003 2:41 PM
Reply #36 Monday, September 29, 2003 2:44 PM
Tip:The text colors for your disabled text in your drop down menus are taken from: button shadow is the main text,button light is the text shadow color.
Plus the color for sub-menu mouseover text is taken from the non-skinned menu mouseover text color.
wierd huh?
Reply #37 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:59 PM
In an explorer window the graphic is 188 pixels wide(94+94)in case you want to use text or a single image.
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Reply #38 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 6:51 AM
Reply #40 Friday, October 10, 2003 1:12 AM
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Reply #21 Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:52 PM
Somehow we need a better way of associating answers with questions.
SUGGESTION: Using the Quote feature would help...and you wouldn't need to worry about using the post # (need to add the name of the person being quoted).
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