Ashtefere

Join Date 05/2008

Search and Address Field Background

Hi all.
Is there some kind of trick to this one? I apply an image to the search and address field background, and it does nothing. No change what-so-ever. I have set the margins right, I can skin just about any other part... but this one will NOT skin. Its really making me angry.
Any ideas?
-Ash

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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XP or Vista? SK5 or SK6? More info about the image you are changing (screenshot) would be helpful too.

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Righto. I thought it would be obvious that I was trying to skin a Vista only feature, and consequently I could only be doing it in skin studio 6.
Anyway.
Im talking about the address bar and search bar in windows explorer (skin studio 6, vista 64)
Does anyone have a problem with this as well as me?
-Ash

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Fuzzy Logic

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I know the one you mean now, under "Explorer and IE > Explorer Information pane > Search and Address field background".

Its just a bog-standard image which should show ok. Are you using a bmp or png?

Unless its a png and 'transparent part' or 'alpha channel' is not ticked, or, the png has the wrong colour depth, I don't know why the image would not show.

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Well, I have downloaded a WB skin that DOES do this properly, went into the UIS file and copied the code, changed the image location (only mod to the code) and it did nothing.
Still no image.
Really getting frustrated at this. As bad as skinstudio 5 was, at least it worked. I have to tread through WB6 like a minefield lest it breaks my skin and I need to start again.
Surely it isnt meant to be like this? I have reinstalled many times...
Or is the address bar skinning a "pay for only" feature?
-Ash

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Ok, so I updated to WB 6.1, and now I can see my address images.
Unfortunately, skinstudio has stopped working altogether.

Is there a "skinstudio 6.1" or something that I should be using? the download page only has 6.0 available.
-Ash

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NightTrainthedark

Join Date 07/2003

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reinstall skinstudio. I had some big hiccups with SKS6 after updating to WB 6.1 but it's working fine now.

The address bar should be skinned fine. Double check all your settings.

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Re-installed skin studio and is ok now.
As a side note: It took 3 reboots to get blinds 6.1 to skin windows properly. This product still feels very "alpha" to me. In my country it would not have been allowed on the shelves.
Anyway, lets see what I can cook up now that its all working.
-Ash

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