under win98, using WB 3.09c
running the golden eagle skin, there is NO sign of the smartbuttons at all.
in the WB smartbuttons option, WB claims there are no smart bars to configure for this skin.
added the section for athenda skin (it is somewhere earlier in this thread), and this has no effect.
if in WB i select the check box in WB configuration, smartbuttons, "set smartbutton settings for all supporting skins", i get a list of 4 things to play with, plus the option to add new things.
so, new theory
what needs to happen is to add a smartbar only, and then try and get buttons to turn up by using the general configuration options.
however, this doesnt expain the fact that i have seen smartbuttons from the goldeneagle skin working. so now reboot to win2k and look at what is going on with WB3, and see if this is the same version of the goldeneagle uis file.
arrived in win2k:
running WB 3.00
when i use the golden hawk skin as a per-app skin for notepad i am getting 2 extra buttons, vertically, on the right hand window edge these are appearing under the close button. the top of these is producing a list of the items in my quicklaunch menu, and the bottom of these two is the shortcut item, showing as an IE icon, sized to be the same size as the other buttons.
as a further difference, when i go into the smartbuttons setup in WB with goldeneagle as my current skin, it lists the two smart buttons, and makes them available to configure
now do diff the uis files for win2k and win98
the two uis files are listed as identical by cygwin diff!!!
so why am i getting such different results? the logical conclusion is that WB has significantly changed how it handles smartbuttons between 3.00 and 3.09c
interesting to note that there is no sign of the new "set smartbutton settings for all supporting skins" option on the smartbuttons tab. presumably more of these changes between versions.
following a grep of all installed uis files, there are Smartbar blocks in XPCopper.uis and XPWood.uis, however, they are totaly commented out. both have been placed onto the floppy for future analysis - i may have a go at that later today.
definetly managed to prove that WB 3.00 and 3.09c are doing quite different things in these two different environments.
why does the goldeagle.uis file i have on my win2k / win98 machine not have any smartbar sections? it has [SmartButton0] section, but surely that isnt the same?
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so, starone, questions for you:
which version of WB are you trying? you are getting smartbuttons arent you?
can you talk me though what skinstudio allows you to do, point by point? i am wondering if it is possible to simply define a section of window border as a "holder" for smartbuttons, and then have WB place user selected smartbuttons into this place. if so, what sort of things does this do to the UIS file?
