(sorry...the height is actually top+bottom-1, as in my case, the top frame is 35px, the bottom is 9px, and the rollup height has to be 43 to prevent the corner being cliped.) Try sizing the window by hand and see what height it kicks in, and set the rollup to that is how I just did it...
Ok, the skin I'm working on now has it's window frames done, and I hit this problem again. I increased the rollup hight to be the top frame+ the bottom frame height, and it all works hunky dory now. There could be an interaction with the bottom edge sizing margins on the left/right frames, but since I have them set to the same size as the bottom frame (because that's how the design works) I can't tell. Anyhow...if the design doesn't fit making the roll-up this big, then that's
FeLiXdAkAt - it only "Kinda sucks" as it adds so many improvements that losing something (till they fix it) is worth it in my book. If it's reported to StarDock (via the newsgroups?) then they've proved really good at solving things like this in the past, but they do need to be told about it....I'd like to, but it takes time, and I'd rather just get on making the next skin at the moment, but it would be good if you could? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/joke.gif" border=0 ALI
I had this problem, and I got it to work somehow through messing with margins, but I'm afraid I didn't figure out the reason or a way to make it work all the time. I think it's related to if the rolled up state is set too small to accomodate the edges, and I _think_ I got round it by just increasing the rolled up size and making sure the top/bottom graphics worked at the slightly bigger rollup. ...try it, increase the rolled up size and see if it stops. I'm just about to get to that s
Ingui - you might like to add it to the "The Un-Official WindowBlinds/SkinStudio Documentation Project" thread as a tip? It's just the sort of thing that's useful to be there for people
I came across this just last night working on the menu for the GUIO entry I'm working on...anoying isn't it? I'd like to solve it too if anyone has a suggestion? I had thought the "default" entry on the mouse over graphic would apply to the default item on the menu, but it never seems to be...since I carefully came up with a design for the default item I then went looking for how/when it would be used and I've not managed to make it appear on any menu as yet....
I tend to recomend McAfee to people based on my experience. I've had to sort out lots of peoples machines that have been royally messed up by Norton, but I've never had to recover things for people using McAfee. Norton is fine WHEN IT WORKS how I'd sum it up. I also tend to opt for McAfee personally as the licence we have at work covers all staff and students to use it on their home machine(s) too. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle
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(Off topic, but I just wanted to disagree with China♥Cat and say that I found the link from GreatSilverWyrm very funny...laugh out loud funny. I love that kind of pointless sillyness)
Ugoin↓ - in hindsight, I'm amazed that some of my wallpapers were accepted...can we have a thread for people who think their wallpapers AREN'T good enough but have still been accepted?
You may well be right, but since I've never figured when/if the "pressed" version is used, I've tended to duplicate the highlighted state for the pressed too so I've not noticed. I have noticed a few other places where things are shuffled slightly. For instance, when working on a universal skin, the vertical task bar button states are in the wrong order (I can't rememeber which way their messed up now). In this case though, the UIS2 editing shows it correctly (unless you designed the
D'oh...no. I'll do that.
Will no one hear my plight?
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Wow, someone that want's free as in speech and free as in beer all in one post! Thank goodness other people decide to CONTRIBUTE to this site for FREE...
jafo/frogboy/t-man or anyone else with a bit of techie insight into the websites. I've tried to upload a WB skin for the GUIO twice now, and whilst it appears to work OK, when I check "My Skins" and click on Update, I get the error: "ADODB.Recordset error '800a0cc1' Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal. /tools/updateskin.asp, line 172" HELP! The skin itself has no chance of winning, but I wou
I've been keeping busy working on something, so I guess it's quite likely that others are too
pictoratus - not a bad idea, but that would involve human interaction at the stage of the client=> server exchange, and the idea is to limit the impact on the users time. Effectively the same sort of thing would happen with "stamps" but it would be your computer that has to "interpret" what the server is challenging it to "read"...and to do that, it has to decode something which is designed to be computationaly hard...Only then would the server issue a stamp and accept the e-mail to for
kongit - on the contrary, there are resources used when you send e-mail equivelent to the postal worker, and there has been an argument from some quarters for people to pay for bandwidth used rather than a flat rate ISP charge for some time. The owners of various transatlantic pipes at one stage were threatening to impose a bit-tax on trafic they carry for instance...the equipment, cables and people needed to keep the infrastructure of the Internet running is not free, we just happen to pay for
DesignCaddy - the computing time overhead would take place in the background. There is no reason it would keep you from getting on with the next task...it just means the e-mail won't leave your e-mail program for a minute. Of course, if the next thing you need to do is shut down your machine, or re-boot, then it would delay you, but that's not going to affect many people very often. HG_Eliminator - Viruses are an issue, though more likely trojans in this case, as it's already been hig
Some bits just don't seem to support transparency, so you have to put the background in to 'fake it'. If your design means that looks bad, then at the moment the only option seem to be to change your design. If your menubar uses a gradient for example, then make either end a chunk of solid colour, and the gradient in the middle, that way the MDI buttons can sit happily on a consistent colour...I think...as long as you use the less efficient stretch rather than tile of course. I've not
So, would we have seen you on TV? I watched the race live over here, but didn't see ya waving
You do realise that in most cases, the cost of these proposed "stamps" is computing time, not money don't you? The idea is to make sending e-mail more computationally expensive so that it becomes economically unviable to send millions of e-mails with a For individuals, the only "cost" would be a 10-60 second delay when you send an e-mail - which given the asynchronous nature of the communication medium, will hardly ever be noticable. There COULD be a f
Hellish911 - In my opinion, the problem here is not that you have different taste to other people who have been making skins, so much as the way you've expressed you opinions as facts time after time. You could have stated your views like this: "As well as all the excellent hard work that people have done creating skins already, I'd like to suggest that there could be alternative styles which I for one would prefer to see, and could prove very popular. Here are my ideas...."<b
#23 - or that animated version of png which has been "just round the corner from taking off" for the last few years...Why would people want to use a proprietry (Shockwave) format if they can avoid it?
...having posted the above, I went to hibernate and the problem is back Might be related to the particular book skin (my own!) but it's certainly not 100% solved
#18 - true. After being pointed in their direction to check them out, they are a little ropey in places. They do cover the "sniff, why are you dissin' my rad wallpaper by not accepting it?", but it could be better in general. Then again, I have to write and maintain FAQs for work, and I know how difficult it can be to keep them current...maybe if it was done the way I suggested and the community could respond in a more dynamic way to keep the info current it might help - but the stick