question for skinners
Monday, April 21, 2003 by knatzz | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hi all,
need a little help:
workin on a new WB skin and after I applied my image to the quicklaunch buttons it also applied the button image to the taskbar behind the buttons as well, I saw this in my last skin, and then the problem disappeared. but I don't know what I did to make it go away and now I can't figure it out. Thanks in advance.
need a little help:
workin on a new WB skin and after I applied my image to the quicklaunch buttons it also applied the button image to the taskbar behind the buttons as well, I saw this in my last skin, and then the problem disappeared. but I don't know what I did to make it go away and now I can't figure it out. Thanks in advance.
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knatzz
Reply #2 Monday, April 21, 2003 11:09 PM
Reply #2 Monday, April 21, 2003 11:09 PM
I am using the same image for the taskbar buttons and the quicklaunch buttons. but they have the same number of states, 6 each. the taskbar background is a different image of course. It still lays the button image behind the quicklaunch buttons as a background, no matter what I do. Not showing any errors in skinstudio either. 
DavidK
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 12:45 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 12:45 AM
Then make a different image for the quicklaunch buttons, or the taskbar buttons, whichever one isn't getting what you want... or maybe I'm not understanding the problem.
knatzz
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:52 AM
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:52 AM
I made a different image, but that's not solving it, no matter what image I put there, with however many states it has, the button image is also the background where the taskbar should be showing, i'll post a screen as my desktop image so you can see, and thanks for trying to help me here, I appreciate it.
knatzz
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:20 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:20 AM
Well, I can't change my desktop image right now, page keeps timing out. Hope you can understand me, and I'll post the pic as soon as I wake up.
knatzz
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:36 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:36 AM
here is a screen of what it is doing http://www.msu.edu/~conatser/wcpblm.jpg there shouldn't be any blue behind the buttons, it should be the background as seen below the PS7 button. there is no blue in the taskbar background image.
BoXXi
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:37 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:37 PM
knatzz: I have had this problem for a while on quite a few skins. I solved it today on one of my skins. I think it has something to do with the size of the buttons. If you use the taskbar buttons image for the quicklaunch buttons you get that effect. So today I re-made some quicklaunch buttons from scratch, making them much smaller than the taskbar buttons. If you want a good example of this, get DavidK's new skin "Alien Tech" and look at the quicklaunch buttons, these are a good example of how to do it properly. I have tried everything else known to man to solve this problem, but this is the only thing that has worked so far. I don't know why it happens, but I'm sure that I used to use the same buttons for taskbar and Q-launch before! anyway, this will solve the problem, or it should!
Please let me know what happens, maybe we can work this out together.
Please let me know what happens, maybe we can work this out together.
knatzz
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:00 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:00 PM
Boxxi: I think your on to something! 
I had the problem with safety ninja and the problem is long gone now. I still don't know what I did, but using that skin as an example, the taskbar and quicklaunch buttons are the same image and are 35 pix high. the taskbar background, which I changed and MIGHT have been the cause is only 30 pix high. On my new skin the buttons are the same hight as the taskbar, 30 pix. But I can't alter the height of the bar or the buttons because i'm not using any tranparency, so they have to be of identical height or it won't look right.
I had the problem with safety ninja and the problem is long gone now. I still don't know what I did, but using that skin as an example, the taskbar and quicklaunch buttons are the same image and are 35 pix high. the taskbar background, which I changed and MIGHT have been the cause is only 30 pix high. On my new skin the buttons are the same hight as the taskbar, 30 pix. But I can't alter the height of the bar or the buttons because i'm not using any tranparency, so they have to be of identical height or it won't look right.
BoXXi
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:25 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:25 PM
Are you sure about this? I kinda figured it was the width that was the problem!
I'm confused again now. I wish there was something in skinstudio that told you the optimum sizes for all the different components, that is a major stumbling block for me.
I'm going to take a look at one of my other skins that has the problem, and play with the sizes.
I'm confused again now. I wish there was something in skinstudio that told you the optimum sizes for all the different components, that is a major stumbling block for me.
I'm going to take a look at one of my other skins that has the problem, and play with the sizes.
knatzz
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:04 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:04 PM
Ahhhhhhh! You mean the width of the button is too long, and how many states doesn't matter! (a lightbulb appears on top of Knatzz's head, quickly grows dim, and then breaks) 
looking into it now
looking into it now
knatzz
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:26 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:26 PM
OK, Here's what I know, in safety ninja, I am using the same image for both ql and taskbar buttons, it's 492 pix long and 35 pix high, 5 pix higher than the taskbar, and that setup works. I have a separate image in the new one for ql and it is 30x474. I just resized the image to (horizontal) 35pix, then to 25, to 15, and then to 10 and nothing produced any results. when i resized it to 10 pix high it was much smaller than the alien tech ql button in length. I also toggled the mouseover effect on and off with the different sized images, so that can't be it. I have tried stretching and tiling the taskbar background and that also doesn't effect the problem. I am out of ideas now
BoXXi
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:51 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:51 PM
Me too!!!! I have just spent ages making new images for most of the buttons and taskbar images. No joy! I wanted to ask you though.... your taskbar background image... is it a single image, or two? I have seen it done both ways and I don't know which is correct or if it even matters.
knatzz
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:14 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:14 PM
My taskbar image is a single image. WB cuts the inage in half length-wise and uses the first half for the bottom, and the second half for if the bar is at the top of the screen, The vertical bar is the same way, and cuts the image in half length-wize for a left and right. I just realized that too! I am going to make a loooonnngggg taskbar and see if that's it.
knatzz
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:29 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:29 PM
NO luck, my taskbar image was 79 wide x 30 high, the same as one section of the button image. I re-sized it to around 700 length and no effect.
eieio
Reply #15 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:37 PM
Reply #15 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:37 PM
MadIce has an excellent doc on XP taskbar skinning. It is written for WB 3.x but covers the taskbar and all the related components (Start Button, grips, taskbuttons, tray) very well.
I had a problem with a skin I was working on where the tray arrow kept coming out black and following his suggestions really helped. I've got a copy or you might see about contacting him.
I had a problem with a skin I was working on where the tray arrow kept coming out black and following his suggestions really helped. I've got a copy or you might see about contacting him.
BoXXi
Reply #16 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:41 PM
Reply #16 Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:41 PM
Pictoratus: Please mail it to me: [email protected] I may be able to glean some information from it. Thank you in advance.
BoXXi
Reply #20 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:24 AM
Reply #20 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:24 AM
well, Hippy thought he had figured it out but it didn't work. I have tried everything!
tell me... on your skin, have you finished the stuff for the vertical taskbar and buttons?
tell me... on your skin, have you finished the stuff for the vertical taskbar and buttons?
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Reply #1 Monday, April 21, 2003 10:27 PM