RightClick: Title Text Background and Title Textbox Height

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Hello,

I'm starting to have a headache with two problems I have for my RightClick skin design.

First, is there a way to give an image background to a window title? We can do it in WindowBlinds by using for example:
    Textbackground=1
    TextBack=largo\largo_textback.bmp
    TXTBackLeft=18 (left margin to tile or stretch)
    TXTBackRight=18 (right margin to tile or stretch)
    (from the Largo WB skin)
I don't want the main background to tile or stretch under the title. I want the title to have its own background or area to do so. Apart from an image background, there might be the possibility of highlighting the title for the same effect. Is there a TextBackgroundColor or something similar that works for the title?

Second, the title for my skin needs to have big fonts, at least a size of 40. However, RightClick is cutting the text when the font size is higher than 37. This doesn't seem to be a problem of "EdgeBuffer_Top" which is completely separate from the title zone. "TitleOffset" is not helping neither. Since I tried "TitleHeight" with no success, is there anything else that might remove my suffering?

Thank you.

skinning
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No one has an idea of how I might be able to do it or if it's even possible to do it?

From what I understand, RightClick uses the same approach or base code than ObjectBar. How can you do it in this program?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
These are problems that have plagued RC since the dawn of time.

I just tried your RC...apart from the size .. its rather large for my 1024 reso.

But all I did was change the TightItemWidthBuffer from 2 to 40.
That number seems to work for me. I have all title fonts looking normal. Nothing is cut off.

Just one of the drawbacks of the RC program ..that and its use of BMPS rather than PNGS.

Sorry I don't have a better solution.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the reply.

It seems that Stardock needs to revamp the product or at least update it... (I was going to use PNGs but... "no you don't!")

I'm still not sure of what TightItemWidthBuffer does since changing its value has no impact on my PC except on the system tray section where there's more space between the icons.

For the text being cut, we can only see it when the font is higher than 37, but I put it to 36 in my skin. If you really don't see it cut off when changing the font size, they might have fixed the problem in another version than the one I'm using. I'm still on the trial version (1.10).

And sorry for the size of the skin. I wanted to make it look like something more than just a simple right click menu. That's a way of doing it.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im afraid that RC is rather low on the priority list of updates.
Although for some of us it remains one of the most used Stardock products.
If you have used RC since it was first introduced to Object Desktop then you become dependent on it to navigate anywhere in your computer.

As for the TightItemWidthBuffer - that is the measurement of space that the main menu will stretch after your Text menu titles. In other words...if you change the TightItemWidthBuffer
from 2 to 40 like I did...it eliminates the need to add letters to the entries if some of the Title Font is cut off. Before I changed TightItemWidthBuffer to 40 ...all I saw on the main menu was the word " Desk..." The rest of the text was cut off. Changing it to 40 Stretched the main menu so all of the title text was visible without changing anything in the text entries. You probably have your menu set up so it stretches correctly for you because your text entries are long enough. Changing the TightItemWidthBuffer helps the skin work for others that might not have such long titles.
This only affects the main menu...the sub-menus may still cut off some of the Title text ...but for me it worked out ..

No need to apologize for the size...I'm sure there are many out there with big monitors and will appreciate the larger size.

Your skin turned out good...



Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I found out that without the system tray, you can't resize the menu. That's why an increase of TightItemWidthBuffer is needed in some configurations. Thanks for your explanation Fairyy~.

However, when I mentionned that the text was cut with bigger fonts, I meant cut in the bottom. We don't see the letters completely. A "j" looks like an "i" as if the textbox had a limited height. I didn't find a way to change that yet. I think it's "hard-coded" in RightClick, like many things unfortunately...

Your skin turned out good...
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Thank you
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just one of the drawbacks of the RC program ..that and its use of BMPS rather than PNGS.
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I would be really cool to be able to do rounded corners without resorting to the dreaded magic pink! (:(
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I would be really cool to be able to do rounded corners without resorting to the dreaded magic pink!
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That it would be ... but never going to happen...so I give a lot of credit to those that make a ' fancier' RC by sitting there and tubing around graphics pixel by pixel with magic pink just to make something a bit different.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Damn that evil magic pink !  :LOL: