User name text in the user panel

I think that setting changed/disappeared about the time the option to disble the user pic was added. It's easy enough to get rid of the user name with negative content margins now.

Imade these skins while that option was present.Dosnt content margins affect the user pic?This is way to confusing,now its only affecting one skin,but the settings are identical with another skin that dosnt display the user name.Plus skins applied from Skinstudio are showing up missing elements.I have just dl'd all the latest versions because I lost all my data,so these are as current as it gets.

Now it wont even apply the skin I'm working on...

I want to get back into skinning but I dont have the energy or time to deal with these kind of issues. I have skins showing up with missing buttons(not just me but people that have dl'd my skins,they want to know why they dont work and I dont know what to tell them...they used to work.)
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I know it's confusing and frustrating. A lot has changed with WB and SkinStudio in the past few months. While generally I think it's for the better, especially for new skinners, it does take quite a bit of work to catch up on the changes. The new SkinStudio is a lot tougher on error checking, and it's kind of a double whammy on older skins because there have been so many changes in WB. A lot of old code is no longer supported and there are a lot more images which SkinStudio now considers 'mandatory'. It will probably take you a bit to catch up again, but I think that if you just stick with it, you'll find that it really is better now. I hope you get past the frustration and stick with it, because you're one of a few skinners that consistently tries to explore new territory with WB and I've always admired that about you.

As for the content margins affecting the user pic, You're right, they will. I made the assumption that since you wanted to disable the user name, you would want to disable the user pic as well.

Thanks Shameless Designs

I always try to disable the user pic,but I am confused now as to how to make that happen from ss.I dont want either the user pic or text to show.

In skin studio, left tree>start panel>user pane, right tree>Disable User Pic>Enable.

Thanks Shameless Designs We get conflicting messages from WB and SS,Enable,disable....which one superscedes?Still no text setting,what happpened to it?

Ok, the actual attribute in SkinStudio (right tree) is "Hide User Picture" and the values are "Disabled" (meaning the User Pic will show unless the User elects to override the setting in WB Config) and "Enabled" (meaning the USer Pic will not be visible no matter what the User elects in User Overrides of WB Config). If you, the skinner, enable "Hide User Picture", the only way to change it again is through SkinStudio or by editing the .uis file of the WB.

As for the text settings, you'll find those in left tree under Miscellaneous>Presets>Font Presets.

Specify a separate font for the user pane, then set the text angle to 1800. Then user name is history.

Thanks guys

The hide user pic seems to work...I knew about the reverse angle user name trick,just cant seem to find the setting for it yet.

appreciate the help tho

The text angle attribute is part of the Font Preset (left tree, under Miscellaneous>Presets>Font Presets). If this is a new skin you are making, you will need to set up a new font preset just for the user name text, otherwise any other text that uses that preset will not appear. You can do this by duplicating an existing preset and modifying the contents, or just add a new preset. Just right click on a font preset and click on which option you want. If you choose duplicate, the left tree will automatically shift focus to the new copy, and you can change the settings in the right tree pane. If Angle doesn't show up in the right tree pane, then click on +More... and choose Angle from the list. If you choose Add Section, you'll get a dialogue to fill out which section and attributes you want added. (Duplicate is easier methinks )

Anywho... Once that is all done, set the angle at 1800. Then in the left tree, go to Start Panel>User Pane and in the right tree pane click on Text Settings>Font-Normal and the number of the Font Preset you just finished adding/modifying. Save and you're done.



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I know 1800,I was one of the first skinners to get it... damn program is not keeping my entries.Pixels keep coming back,they go away,they come back. > I DONT Need this! >

Hi IR....In my SkinnyBop skin I hid the user text by using a font that doesn't have any characters in it....kind of a fontless font

Wouldn't that make the font 'pointless' ?

hehe

I just removed the entire User Panel pane of the start menu on the skin I'm working on. Just removed the image, bada-bing bada-boom, no more issues. Built what I wanted as an image into the top of the other two sections of the Start Menu. Problem solved.