SkinStudio8 Issue
Friday, January 10, 2014 by LightStar | Discussion: Skinning
Could someone tell me why the Menu Item Text (1) settings control the Menu Bar (Notepad, Etc.) (2) and the Menu Bar Options Text (2) settings? Why can't they be set separately? Changing the text colors in the Standard Menu Bars area does nothing at all.
Things like this are extremely annoying, and there are lots of areas in SkinStudio 8.01 like this. Stardock personnel really need to go through every aspect of this software. Thank you.
Oh, and while we are at it, why is there no image count showing in the Menu Bar (Notepad, Etc.) area like for other images.
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:37 PM
Did that once on another issue a long time ago Jim, never got a response, but I'll try again.
Reply #4 Friday, January 17, 2014 2:28 PM
Hi LightStar,
This is a easy one, this is because they are two different menus, the top settings are from the old skinning era,
like win 98 and XP, since Vista Microsoft introduced a second menubar style, the one at the bottom of your screenshot.
As I was explaining to another user early, you may know that SkinStudio let you use custom and experimental settings,
this is a great thing for skinning, the problem is that not everyone knows or tried everything so sometimes, mixed settings can
bring different results because sometimes on settings can overwrite another.
The thing is that right now the menu bars like "File, Edit, View, Help, Etc" are the section "Menu Bar Options", in fact "Menu Bar Options"
are in fact the "Menu Bar Buttons", and like the Toolbar sections, the buttons that command the text settings, not the Toolbar background,
the Normal state that defines the menubar text colour and the other states define the hover, pressed, etc, the things is that if the normal
state of the graphic is not present because the OS not use it or because it's possible to use it but the skinner make it invisible, the text there
is still the Button text and not the background text.
SkinStudio really need a cleanup but this may need some changes in WB too, and it wasn't really possible before because old skins
that still use old settings will not work right, now that XP and Vista are no longer supported, a clean up could happen, I think that the ideal
is to have a new SkinStudios separated form the actual one that would not have old settings at all, so if you need to edit a old skin, you go
with the old SKS, if you're making a new skin, you would go with the "news" SKS.
If you could tell me what exactly you want to do with the menubar and the selection colours, I can try to help you to achieve that.
Just to better understand what I meant up there, you can skin many parts in different ways, if you remove all the text settings from
the "Menu Bar Options" section for example, the menu bar (including the buttons) will start using the text settings from another part,
I'm not 100% sure right now without looking but I believe it will start using one of the Toolbar buttons text settings.
Anyway, let me know if I can help and I'll be glad to try 
Reply #5 Friday, January 17, 2014 3:11 PM
Thanks for trying to help Dani, but I am looking for a permanent solution to what should not have been an issue in the first place. Sorry, but SKS 8 needs a complete rewrite if it is only for Windows 7 and 8 now, not just a bunch guessing and workarounds.
I guess what I am saying is a setting should do exactly what it says it will do, otherwise it should not be there in the first place.
Reply #6 Friday, January 17, 2014 3:50 PM
No problem LightStar, I'm sorry that I cannot offer you a more immediate solution but I'll try to help Neil the best I can to get the best SkinStudio for us all 
Reply #8 Friday, January 17, 2014 4:20 PM
Which means better skins for everybody! Now that is worth some karma. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:25 PM
Five days and no response?