Toolbar Help
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 by WOWfactor.555. | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I've Been Trying To Port a Skin From Msstyles To Windowblinds And All Was Going Well Untill I Got To The Toolbar Section. I Took a Look At The Thunderstorm Toolbar And Kind Of Figured Out That I Need To Make One Image With All The Toolbar Icons Sitting Side By Side. Sks Tells Me There Should Be 47 Icons In a Particular Order At 24x24 Pixels.
So. I Loaded The Toolbars That Came With The Msstyles And They Were In The Form of [Normal-Pressed-Over] States. From What I Can Gather From The Thunderstorm TB's, Sks Accepts The Toolbar In Two States - Normal and Hot. So I Edited All the Normal States Into One Long Image Leaving a Little Space Between Each One In Both Normal and Hot States. Something Like This :
I Only Had These Icons To Begin With. The Original Author Didn't Release an Entire (47) Icon Toolbar. I Think There Is Twelve Icons In Total. When I Imported Into Sks Under The Toolbars Section > Windows Explorer > Large I Got This.
I've Tried Everything I Can Think of To Get Them To Display Properly, If You've Read This Far ...
- Does the Toolbar Image Used Have To Have All 47 Icons?
- I've Saved It As Both PNG and TGA But It Always Gets Converted To Bmp In Sks. Any Ideas?
- Does Every Icon Used Have To Be 24x24? Some Icons Aren't Square.
- Does Anyone Have Any Idea Why The Toolbar Is This Way?
- Any Links To Toolbar Tuts In Sks? The Official Sks Manual Is Vague.
Any And All Help Would Be Appreciated. Thanks.
So. I Loaded The Toolbars That Came With The Msstyles And They Were In The Form of [Normal-Pressed-Over] States. From What I Can Gather From The Thunderstorm TB's, Sks Accepts The Toolbar In Two States - Normal and Hot. So I Edited All the Normal States Into One Long Image Leaving a Little Space Between Each One In Both Normal and Hot States. Something Like This :
I Only Had These Icons To Begin With. The Original Author Didn't Release an Entire (47) Icon Toolbar. I Think There Is Twelve Icons In Total. When I Imported Into Sks Under The Toolbars Section > Windows Explorer > Large I Got This.
I've Tried Everything I Can Think of To Get Them To Display Properly, If You've Read This Far ...
- Does the Toolbar Image Used Have To Have All 47 Icons?
- I've Saved It As Both PNG and TGA But It Always Gets Converted To Bmp In Sks. Any Ideas?
- Does Every Icon Used Have To Be 24x24? Some Icons Aren't Square.
- Does Anyone Have Any Idea Why The Toolbar Is This Way?
- Any Links To Toolbar Tuts In Sks? The Official Sks Manual Is Vague.
Any And All Help Would Be Appreciated. Thanks.
WOWfactor.555.
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 5:02 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 5:02 PM
Thanks For The Response.
Does The Image (Like In The First One Above) HaveTo Have All 47 Icons?
Or Can It Just Be The Ones I Want To Replace?
Cheers.
Does The Image (Like In The First One Above) HaveTo Have All 47 Icons?
Or Can It Just Be The Ones I Want To Replace?
Cheers.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 5:53 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 5:53 PM
sorry I got confused. The way you type does make it harder to read btw.
The icon image strip you show isn't going to display properly and thats where the mess is coming from. All icons must be 24 x 24 for the large and 16 x 16 for the small. Every individual image must be the same size. Because some of your images are different sizes , they are getting cut up when imported. Even if you use spaces, they still need to be 24 x 24 with the space.
All the icons must be used. Just use a dummy for the ones you don't care about to fill the strips.
The icon image strip you show isn't going to display properly and thats where the mess is coming from. All icons must be 24 x 24 for the large and 16 x 16 for the small. Every individual image must be the same size. Because some of your images are different sizes , they are getting cut up when imported. Even if you use spaces, they still need to be 24 x 24 with the space.
All the icons must be used. Just use a dummy for the ones you don't care about to fill the strips.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 4:58 PM
16 large hot 24 x 24
16 large cold
16 small hot 16 x 16
16 small cold
Windows explorer icons are 47 images
47 large hot
47 large cold
47 small hot
47 small cold
Extras icons are 5 images
5 large hot
5 large cold
5 small hot
5 small cold
Can be bmp or png.