I know what you mean about the confusion. It doesn't make sense to me either that the items on the menu don't work for me. I'm glad to know that it works for you though. It works great now the way it was done above though, so it is just as good that way I guess. If you have any more ideas though, we can still try to lick it the other way too (if you still want to mess with it that is).

It all boils down to the original matter. When I use the smartbar button, that menu brings up the programs in Object Edit. When I use the new menu button I have added, everything works as it should. Thought about emailing Stardock and have them explain the Smartbar bit since apparently that is where I am having the problem. But, on the other hand, if it worked for you then I just don't know.

None, other than that one.

Where did you see the preview article?

I will do a search of it. I'm interested in seeing what it covers. Maybe the solution to this lies within.

starone - It all boils down to the original matter. When I use the smartbar button, that menu brings up the programs in Object Edit.

feline *eurika*
just had a cunning thought
basically, what you seem to have done in skinstudio is to add a button to your skin that calls a dll.
the fact that this is on a smartbar adds some extra stuff to the UIS file, which makes this less obvious.

however, by the looks of it all that is happening is that a dll is being called, which is then supposed to bring up the menu of items in the quick launch menu.

for what ever reason, the relivent dll (called quickl.wpb) is still on this machine, even though i am currently running WB 2.21b

so, in a little bit i am going to have a go at replacing the winmenu button on my test athenda skin with this quicklaunch dll

the major benifit of this is that, if it works, it allows us to experiment with the dll in isolation, which gets us away from questions about the smartbars, ect.

i will report bach soon

Did the above and it went spastic. Had to go to safemode to fix it. Then went back and added the info about the smartbar and the extra button with smart.dll. Brought it up just fine, but the programs still launched in Object Edit.

Put this info in the uis if you want to experiment at that end:

[SmartBar0]
Name=Quick Launch Menu
DLL=quickl.wbp
WIDTH=24
Enabled=0

[SmartBar1]
Name=url Button
DLL=url.wbp
WIDTH=24
Enabled=0

[Button6]
Align=1
XCoord=100
YCoord=5
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
ShiftAction=0
CtrlAction=0
Visibility=0
DllName=smart.dll
SmartBarNumber=0

[Button7]
Align=1
XCoord=120
YCoord=5
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
ShiftAction=0
CtrlAction=0
Visibility=0
DllName=smart.dll
SmartBarNumber=1

[Smartbar.quicklaunch]
Image=Athenda\min.bmp

The only problem at your end in this experiment is that if you don't have WB3, the smartbars may be included in that version only. I can't remember if it shows in 2.2.

As I said, it works the other way, but not the smartbar way. (Sure hate an unsolved problem, but at least I'm learning - what to do and what not to do.)

Just downloaded Windowblind 3.09a, and no txt info on smartbars.

This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Read that the final 3.1 will include an "XPPowerUser Skin" that uses the Smartbar. It may well be that the reason it won't work yet is because they haven't finished implementing it. Hopefully it will come out soon and we will be able to see if that is the "cure all".

Your reply really had me laughing. Your right about the spirt of Christmas. Others need to be included in all this fun we are having. I feel rather hoggish over this.

i have just posted a request for help on the windowblinds newsgroup, asking for helpful people to join us here, since i cannot post to the newsgroups from work.

hopefully that will help

i think i know what is going on
people are probably being intimidated into silence by the raw genius at work here
feline starts giggling histerically again

i think i am going to have to be brave, and reboot my win2k machine so that win98 loads, and then run some experiments there

of course this would require that i get to go home
feline stairs at the bars on the windows and feels victimised
feline feels that nice cumforting work places shouldnt have bars on the windows

i think i may be back, but only just

inquiries? i think management seem to be taking the spanish inquisision as the inspiration for their enquities stratergy

anyway, i was playing around with WB on my win98 machine over the weekend.

i had some problems upgrading to WB3, but eventually got WB 3.09 working. however, when i tried your skin i didnt get any smartbar buttons at all???!!!

i think i need to grab some of the info from this thread, and get it to that machine, and do some more experiments.

when you tried this version (versions?) of WB did you actually get any smartbar buttons?