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Object Bar 0.90 and Windowblinds

Aschell

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Object Bar 0.90 and Windowblinds

I love the ability for OB .90 to convert and apply a current WB XP skin to the OB bar. Works great! Only, there seems to be a problem with some WB XP skins listed in the XP directory here. I don't have XP to see whether there is a problem with these skins used by WB in XP, but some of them do not get converted by OB. For example, Dusk-till-dawn, blueprint xp, SkyeXP, JoccaBLUE. This is on NT4sp6, and win2k. Is there something missing in these skins? They are supposed to skin the XP taskbar, so they should also get converted by OB. Thanks. For those who do not have Object Bar, especially those not using WinXP, start drooling!

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Aschell, can you please tell me what you actually did to get those few skins that wont work with object bar to work in simple terms. What do i change and how? Feline..did you update and is it working now for you? Its working great here.

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I'll use Bluegrove XP as an example. Open the .uis file in a text editor. Just before the [Personality] section add:
[XPTaskbar]
File=BlueGroveXP\xpstuff.xp

Create a text file called xpstuff.xp in the skins directory.

Scan through the .uis file for any sections like this:

[Taskbar.whatever]
[Startpanel.whatever]

Move these items to the xpstuff.xp file and delete them from the .uis file.
Now OB will convert it.
TIP: If you were already running bluegrove XP before you made these changes, you have to change the WB skin to something else first and then select bluegrove XP again for OB to reinspect the skin for conversion.

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Outstanding result!

and it makes perfect sence to

are you going to post this info on the OB newsgroup as well? hopefully this may be fixable in future builds of OB so that it can grab the info straight from the UIS file.

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XRAYSPEX - Feline..did you update and is it working now for you? Its working great here.

not on my machine running WB 3.10 yet. tonight probably.

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I did post some mention of it last night on the OB and Skinstudio newsgroups. I'll check again tonight and add more detail there if necessary. Glad it's working for you! I was so disappointed initially when I excitedly loaded some of my favorite XP skins and they were not converted. Now I can rest easy and enjoy my beautiful startbar on my NT4 work machine. What a difference OB and WB have made in using that old operating system!

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Achell,your fix worked great here.Thank you!

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