I am completely stuck with skinstudio 6.4 I was told to study other peoples skins which I have done with a few, I want to know what
Size to make each individual section ex. start menu top what size am I supposed to create it in photoshop?
Ther are no tutorials that I found to help the wiki doesnt help me nothing online leads me to understanding how to even make a
beggining there has to be a starting point what size is the start menu each skin Ive looked at all have different sizes so how am I
supposed to know if I should make it 1024x768 or 300x500 really there has to be a set size somewhere.
The only thing I do know is the wallpaper sizes which doesn't help me in the least as that is not sent into skinstudio for adding to
the skin.
What am I failing to understand?
Thanks, Lisa
Thanks for all the help Ive learned a lot I just got this program this past Wednesday so I'll be here begging for help for sure
Now my next adventure is how to remove the icon on the top of the start menu and can I over ride the text too?
Start menu/ Top part/ extra tab/ scroll down to hide the user picture and check enabled.
To remove the text: in the same extra tab area find vertical text shift. Make it -1000
Those 2 options are under the Extra tab for the user pane (top part)
BUT you can insert this code into the code editor section of the top part
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HideUserPicture=1TextHorzShiftNormal=250
...........................
Then you can change the 250 to whatever you need 250 = # of pixles shfited to the left
Tim you beat me to it !
Thanks it worked but the setting for the text I had to use 1100 instead because the negative didn't work for me.
nice to see you haven't gotten to discouraged diva42 and you definitely couldn't ask for better people to be getting advice/assistance from than the ones who are giving it
Thanks and I appreciate all the help, I have another issue I made a start button and when I hover over it , it disaapears any idea what I need to do to fix this?
I would have to see the image you used and the settings in sks, Lisa
Ok.
1. I would suggest using a .png/.tga with a transparent background for that image (I try to avoid .bmp with magic pink when ever possible).
2. You have too much extra canvas on the end of the image. The startbutton has 5 states, so if you have a section at the end it messes up the spacing of the states. Look at this example:
I added the gray background to illustrate where the canvas ends. The actual image should have a blank background.
Ok I will give that a go Thaks for your help
Yep it worked thank god for those who came before me else I'd be lost
Here is my progress in full so far
Looks pretty good!
I'm back with a question I can't seem to change the all programs mouseover it stay xp standard blue I'm adjusting it from left hand side start menu tree and I add the picture apply it and nothing changes I been sitting here for over 2 hours trying everything I can think of even searched the forum for answers and came up empty handed.
Can someone please help me
The All Programs mouseover in XP cannot be skinned. The mouseover background comes from the classic colors section. To get there: Change skin colours > look for the combo box there at the top, select Show skin defined colors > Menu Highlight. That will give you color for the background. The mousover text for the All Programs is from there as well: Selected item text.
Thank You I will give that a go and let you know how I made out
Bear in mind that section also affects menu colors and menu text colors throughout the WB.
I don't really like the squareness of it I know I've seen other blinds that have an image in that area so I'm guessing thats the more programs background that I will need to play around with to get it looking more stylish.
Glad it worked for you...but, listen to vStyler too....it DOES affect other areas of the skin as well. Any more glitches, just post back here and we will help you sort it out.
In Vista, you can use a mouseover image. In XP, what I have done, was "fake" an image there. On the All Programs panel, I would actually draw the outline of a button there. Then when mousing over the All Programs panel, it looks like you put an image there! You just have to make sure you line your "fake" image up correctly, then adjust the margins, so that the mouse color doesn't got outside of that outline.
I'm back ok the problem is here
I get half the image I placed this in the more programs arrow because of a skin I was checking out had theirs set there
only thing she has an image with 3 I only had one but I did use hers on mine and its the same it only shows 1/2 the image
I looked to see if she had any setting in the paint margin thing and nope all set to zero I did same with my 1 ok hope you
follow me I know I can confuse the greatest of minds lol, so now what to do?
PS When I hit ctrl print screen the mouse overs on the right side do that I have no idea why its fine othewrwise.
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