Tiggz

Tiggz

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Reply to WB - drop down menu woes in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I sorted most of my troubles - discovering that drop down menus have borders was a good start. Documentation for SkinStudio is sorely lacking in detail methinks...

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Reply to Help with Sysmetrix in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

Sorry for not making myself more clear Chas - I simply meant that as well as the configurable recycle bin bmps that overlay the background bitmap some skins have references to the recycle bin "hard-coded" as it were to the background image itself. For example, you might draw a background image with various containers for all your relevant sections such as time/system resources/email/recycle bin etc etc, and you might choose to include titles for the sections in some manner drawn onto the back

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Reply to WB - drop down menu woes in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

lol @ me, didn't check the "show pre-release versions" option in the view menu of sdc o/ I still need help configuring these darn menus tho, especially the text overunning the edge of the drop down menu/overlapping the keyboard shortcut issues...any ideas? ...anyone?

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Reply to WB - drop down menu woes in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I registered skinstudio (along with the other programs in the object desktop package) and updated my unregistered version thru Stardock Central, but it's only 3.0.0.8 or something - maybe I will try uninstalling and reinstalling not sure I do understand your "glitchy" painting, but thx for the effort are you saying small is beautiful? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/bigsmile.gif"

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WB - drop down menu woes in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

%$£*!&£^$%£!!! Hi all o/ I'm currently attempting my first WB skin, using SkinStudio (registered), and mostly it's going great, but... I'm having endless hassles with the drop down menus, I keep tweaking and fiddling but they never seem to come out right. Specifically: I'm finding that unless I use really teeny fonts some of the items don't fit into the background and some of the items text overlaps with it's keyboard shortcut. Also, how can I configure the c

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Reply to Help with Sysmetrix in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

The problem comes tho when there are references to the recycle bin in the actual bitmap background itself, which is (possibly) what is stumping Bushman, in which case the only recourse is to edit the background.

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Reply to Help with Sysmetrix in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

woah there dude! I'm fairly sure that Bushman is only referring to sysmetrix when he talks about removing the recycle bin. He's a bit cautious when it comes to bitmap editting so let's try not to alarm him with talk of creating his own operating systems.

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Reply to antimated objects - how to create in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

on a side note, is it possible to use Adobe Image Ready to create the bmp strips? I had a go this morning and couldn't figure it out... if not I want to thank XX for the link to Bitstrip, as I did manage to work out how to make animated gifs

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Reply to Help with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

hope this isn't poaching the thread but as a new skinner as well, using photoshop principally, I'm extremely ignorant about things like dodge/multiply/screen etc which I saw u used in your glass sphere tutorial, simple techniques which produced a fine end product in very few steps...to a photoshop noob it all sounds like ancient Greek. I can follow the steps but don't really understand all the processes and so can't adapt and apply them to other projects... I ramble, excuse me...basical

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Reply to Help with Sysmetrix in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

dude, don't give up so easily, use this as an opportunity to learn some image editting - which you will need to do when you get round to making your own skins. I's like anything else, a bit daunting when you are completely new to it, but you slowly pick things up. If you make backups first then you have nothing to lose by experimenting. dunno if you knew but you can find the themes/bmps in the sysmetrix installation directory - usually C:\Program files\Sysmetrix\Themes give it

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