"Taskbar Group Menu" in Skinstudio

In the SkinStudio Explorer Tree under "Taskbar" and at the bottom there is an entry named "Taskbar Group Menu" with two fields: Background and Item.

Can someone explain to me what this is and where I can see it so I can skin it correctly?

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Snowman

Join Date 03/2001

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If you have the option 'Group similar taskbar buttons' set to 'on' in the taskbar properties, a menu will popup when you click any taskbarbuttons that are 'grouped'.

ex:

How this menu will appear is handled in that section of SKS.

One way of getting "around" using that section is simply to not use the two sections (remove section). This way the grouped menu will be handled by the toolbar menu.

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This menu will also show if you have more open apps than your taskbar has room to show and several of those apps are instances of the same program.

If you have, as Snowman says, checked the option "Group similar taskbar buttons" and for example you are looking at several different web pages at the same time in different instances of IE, all those instances will be grouped together under a single "Internet Explorer" taskbar button - click that button to get a menu of the all instances of IE that are running.

If you don't skin this bit then someone is bound to come across it and, unfortunately, they might give your skin a lower rating than it deserves - there are some pedantic skinners out there! I'd skin it for completeness.

There are only 2 items, menu background and menu item, and you can always reuse the background and item from one of your other menus instead of drawing new ones. Check the number of item states for each image though, I can't remember if they are the same as the normal menu images.

Keep on skinnin'

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