Preview window in windowblinds
Saturday, March 23, 2002 by TravisD | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
When I zoom in to preview a skin in WindowBlinds, a lot of the views seem to also be using a matching Object Bar skin. Are these people running Windows XP that does this for them (creates the start bar)? or are they creating matching Object Bar themes to go with thier WindowBlinds skin and are not uploading them to this site? Just wondering, I'm running Win98.
Thanks
Thanks
TravisD
Reply #2 Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:15 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:15 AM
Would it be too much to ask how to do this (have Object Bar automatically create an ObjectBar skin from WindowBlinds on win 98)?
Chris
Reply #3 Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:28 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:28 PM
Assuming you're using a WB skin that includes the the skins for the XP start menu and task bar, and assuming you're running ObjectBar...
1. Go to the ObjectBar Theme Browser.
2. Scroll down and select/single-click the Windows XP (blahblahblah V1.0)
3. Pulldown the Styles combobox at the bottom of the dialogbox and select *Use WindowBinds Skin*
4. Then press OK.
Now ObjectBar should use the WindowBlinds skin. If you switch your WindowBlinds skin, it detects the change and switches the ObjectBar skin for you.
However, this doesn't always work. Its a hit or miss process for this to work. Some skins don't convert or have artifacts in the taskbar or start menu. It depends on how the skinner created the WindowBlinds XP skin.
I think its because WindowBlinds XP skinning has had some enhancements in it and ObjectBar is slightly behind in its conversion process. Hopefully this'll be corrected in a future version of ObjectBar.
1. Go to the ObjectBar Theme Browser.
2. Scroll down and select/single-click the Windows XP (blahblahblah V1.0)
3. Pulldown the Styles combobox at the bottom of the dialogbox and select *Use WindowBinds Skin*
4. Then press OK.
Now ObjectBar should use the WindowBlinds skin. If you switch your WindowBlinds skin, it detects the change and switches the ObjectBar skin for you.
However, this doesn't always work. Its a hit or miss process for this to work. Some skins don't convert or have artifacts in the taskbar or start menu. It depends on how the skinner created the WindowBlinds XP skin.
I think its because WindowBlinds XP skinning has had some enhancements in it and ObjectBar is slightly behind in its conversion process. Hopefully this'll be corrected in a future version of ObjectBar.
DavidK
Reply #4 Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:51 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:51 PM
In some cases, if the conversion is not good there are seperate OB themes created for the skin. Browse through the OB section if you find one that doesn't work, there might be a theme created for it.
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Reply #1 Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:06 AM