Toolbar Border Image Size vs. Sizing Margins
Thursday, August 19, 2004 by JeffBDVS | Discussion: Skinning
I'd like to mod a couple of my favorite skins to handle Adobe After Effects' painting of toolbar windows like the tool palette or the info palette. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere both paint the toolbar top border on the palettes at a decent size so that the toolbar buttons (mdi buttons??) show up as they do in the SKS preview. After Effects does not. The top toolbar border on the palettes is thinner, which results in the toolbar buttons (mdi buttons??) not being drawn in some skins.
Without knowing how (or why) AE paints smaller top toolbar window borders, would I most likely be better off increasing/decreasing the border sizing margin or just resizing the top toolbar border image?
Thanks,
Jeff
Without knowing how (or why) AE paints smaller top toolbar window borders, would I most likely be better off increasing/decreasing the border sizing margin or just resizing the top toolbar border image?
Thanks,
Jeff
JeffBDVS
Reply #2 Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:05 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:05 PM
Thanks for the info. I am looking for a way to minimize the side effects of any "AE specific" fix on the rest of my apps. Your post is a good start. 
What I am seeing are "normal" appearing toolbar captions in AE, they're just skinnier than PS or Premiere. The skinny captions apparently don't leave enough room for toolbar close and minimize buttons to be drawn. So I end up with a normal-looking caption bg image and no buttons. But the hotspots are there if you click where the button *should* be drawn, then the palette will close or minimize as expected.
Jeff
What I am seeing are "normal" appearing toolbar captions in AE, they're just skinnier than PS or Premiere. The skinny captions apparently don't leave enough room for toolbar close and minimize buttons to be drawn. So I end up with a normal-looking caption bg image and no buttons. But the hotspots are there if you click where the button *should* be drawn, then the palette will close or minimize as expected.
Jeff
SelfExiled
Reply #3 Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:55 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:55 PM
Some programs don't follow the normal skinning guides. Some programs have their own way of skinning the program. Therefore, some programs won't skin the way others will skin. If you fix it for one specific program, you may mess up the entire skin. I suggest adding an exclusion for a program that makes it difficult to read.
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Reply #1 Saturday, August 21, 2004 7:37 PM