One Last Problem with my skin!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 by thisisglen | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I'm soo close to finishing my skin. But as usual I have one problem left :




As you can see the caption height on windows such as diplay properties and log off etc is only 22pixels which cuts off the bottom border line.. Other windows (such as my computer, IE etc) are fine because their caption height is 23. I set the caption height to 23 under metrics and I can't for the life of me work out why the captions are coming up in two different heights.

Here is a link to the code that skinstudio generated: Link

And here's a link to the skin: Link

Thanks in advance for any help!
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NightTrainthedark
Reply #1 Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:50 AM
I tried to check it out but skinstudio keeps crashing. It has happened with other skins. Just wanted to make sure you knew it was a UIS1 skin.

thisisglen
Reply #2 Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:59 AM
Yeah, I read somewhere that UIS1+ is faster if you only want basic functions and that's all I want.. I think. Is it easier to fix if I convert it to UIS2? Thanks for trying to have a look!

scorpio-logic
Reply #3 Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:01 AM
Is it easier to fix if I convert it to UIS2? Thanks for trying to have a look!


I hadn't tried that, but I would try that out. I checked out this skin in SKS. I couldn't find anything wrong. I posted last night, but it seems that it didn't make it here. NT, did you save as .wba file? Just asking...Happy Thanksgiving!!

thisisglen
Reply #4 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:24 PM
Yeah, I just tried saving it as a .wba file and installing it / running it on my laptop from that and it has the same problem. I'm not actually sure how to make it UIS2.. I only know how to make a new skin UIS2 and this is already the 3rd time i've started again so it so aint happening again! there better be a way to port it.. (sorry for my complete n00b-ness )

scorpio-logic
Reply #5 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:33 PM
When you save it to zip for distribution, if there is features that require it to be UIS2 it will ask if you want it converted to the latest version, so unless you put some transparent taksbar adn startmenu, I don't think it's needed. It may be one of those things that isn't because of your authoring but something in the GUI that is making it cover up like that. I'm noob at this too, though. It's a nice skin. Really fast. I'd love to see it when you are satisfied. Good luck! Happy skinning!!

thisisglen
Reply #6 Friday, November 25, 2005 1:00 AM
Yeah, it's definantly a strange one. Once that's done i'll be a happy camper.. but until then i think i'll lose many hours sleep looking at classic windows!.. I thought the code was alright.. but maybe it has something to do with the normal skins using seperate images for the title bar and bottom bar but mine uses only 1 image cut for both.. thanks for your help so far scorpio-logic..

Anyone more ideas anyone?

thisisglen
Reply #7 Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:34 AM
bump

Daiwa
Reply #8 Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:16 PM
It must have something to do with UIS1 format - I've not seen it with UIS2 skins. GreenReaper (author of Blackcomb) is probably the UIS1 guru - might contact him for his advice.

Cheers,
Daiwa

NightTrainthedark
Reply #9 Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:43 PM
I took another look. The frame that is 23 pixels high is using a menu bar below. The 22 pixel high one is not. I don't see any issues in Skinstudio that jump out. The color used in the 22 pixel verion is most likely the color selected for your Button_Face. That color is overlapping the title frame by 1 pixel when a menu bar is not used. The frame itself is still 23 pixels, you are just seeing 1 pixel of the button face color. You can see the window frame starts at 23 pixels by the darker line that is part of the left window frame image. I dont think you can do anything about it but maybe someone else that is more familiar with UIS1 might have some more to add.

Maybe messing with the menu height under System Metrics can help but not sure. Its worth a try.

thisisglen
Reply #10 Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:18 AM
bump. Still no solution

To Night Train: I was pretty sure the frame isn't over-lapping, i think what you are seeing there is the outline starting in the side border image which gives the appearance that the frame is getting drawn on top of by the button colour when really the middle image is just being cropped by one pixel. I thought that was the case for a while too.

Any gurus out there have anything more to add?

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