Object Bar 0.90 and Windowblinds
Friday, January 18, 2002 by Aschell | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I love the ability for OB .90 to convert and apply a current WB XP skin to the OB bar. Works great! Only, there seems to be a problem with some WB XP skins listed in the XP directory here. I don't have XP to see whether there is a problem with these skins used by WB in XP, but some of them do not get converted by OB. For example, Dusk-till-dawn, blueprint xp, SkyeXP, JoccaBLUE. This is on NT4sp6, and win2k. Is there something missing in these skins? They are supposed to skin the XP taskbar, so they should also get converted by OB. Thanks. For those who do not have Object Bar, especially those not using WinXP, start drooling! 
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Aschell
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:23 PM
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:23 PM
So can anyone figure out what is missing in the XP skins so OB can recognize them and convert them? I wish there was a force convert, but likely the results wouldn't be too good if there was something wron with the skin. I tried messing around with some skins that should convert in Skinstudio, fixed any errors I could find, and still no conversion. Oh well, it always seems to be the XP skins I want the most don't get converted 
feline
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:27 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:27 PM
could you open up two xpstuff.xp files next to each other?
take one from a skin that converts (aquarium did in 0.9) and one from a skin that wont convert, and see which components are missing?
i suspect that any helpful posts on the newsgroup would be appeaciated.
take one from a skin that converts (aquarium did in 0.9) and one from a skin that wont convert, and see which components are missing?
i suspect that any helpful posts on the newsgroup would be appeaciated.
feline
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:28 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:28 PM
paxx - Doh! I can't read in the morning!
i get like that all though the day
it is really bad with anything work related for some strange reason
i get like that all though the day
it is really bad with anything work related for some strange reason
Aschell
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:21 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:21 PM
I figured it out. The skins that don't convert, don't have a xpstuf.xp file. All the xp stuff is right in the .uis. I removed all the xp stuff and put it in a xpstuff.xp file and now it converts! I guess WB or Skinstudio must be fine with everything in the uis, but OB specifically needs the xpstuff.xp file.
XRAYSPEX
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:49 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:49 PM
Aschell, can you please tell me what you actually did to get those few skins that wont work with object bar to work in simple terms. What do i change and how? Feline..did you update and is it working now for you? Its working great here.
Aschell
Reply #27 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:00 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:00 AM
I'll use Bluegrove XP as an example. Open the .uis file in a text editor. Just before the [Personality] section add:
[XPTaskbar]
File=BlueGroveXP\xpstuff.xp
Create a text file called xpstuff.xp in the skins directory.
Scan through the .uis file for any sections like this:
[Taskbar.whatever]
[Startpanel.whatever]
Move these items to the xpstuff.xp file and delete them from the .uis file.
Now OB will convert it.
TIP: If you were already running bluegrove XP before you made these changes, you have to change the WB skin to something else first and then select bluegrove XP again for OB to reinspect the skin for conversion.
[XPTaskbar]
File=BlueGroveXP\xpstuff.xp
Create a text file called xpstuff.xp in the skins directory.
Scan through the .uis file for any sections like this:
[Taskbar.whatever]
[Startpanel.whatever]
Move these items to the xpstuff.xp file and delete them from the .uis file.
Now OB will convert it.
TIP: If you were already running bluegrove XP before you made these changes, you have to change the WB skin to something else first and then select bluegrove XP again for OB to reinspect the skin for conversion.
feline
Reply #28 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:09 AM
Reply #28 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:09 AM
Outstanding result!
and it makes perfect sence to
are you going to post this info on the OB newsgroup as well? hopefully this may be fixable in future builds of OB so that it can grab the info straight from the UIS file.
and it makes perfect sence to
are you going to post this info on the OB newsgroup as well? hopefully this may be fixable in future builds of OB so that it can grab the info straight from the UIS file.
feline
Reply #29 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:13 AM
Reply #29 Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:13 AM
XRAYSPEX - Feline..did you update and is it working now for you? Its working great here.
not on my machine running WB 3.10 yet. tonight probably.
not on my machine running WB 3.10 yet. tonight probably.
Aschell
Reply #30 Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:02 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:02 AM
I did post some mention of it last night on the OB and Skinstudio newsgroups. I'll check again tonight and add more detail there if necessary. Glad it's working for you! I was so disappointed initially when I excitedly loaded some of my favorite XP skins and they were not converted. Now I can rest easy and enjoy my beautiful startbar on my NT4 work machine. What a difference OB and WB have made in using that old operating system!
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Reply #21 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:48 AM
About the systray, yes, I got to agree with you.