we try to please

what is the problem with the animation?

would the tactic alexandria used in the aquarium skin work? from the look of it, the effect of only animating part of the window border comes from simply making the non-animated parts the same across all frames.

feline wonders if this is still a Jafo free zone, thus a spelling free for all

Well, as far the animation, I probably want the impossible. The effect I would like to achieve is as follows. I want the frames to change the colors (which they do), but without the jumping part. Then I want my design which is different shapes on top of the frames to just glitter.

I will try opening IE in object edit and see what happens. However, when it throws me into object edit, I just get a bunch of gibberish.

starone - I probably want the impossible.

have you tried threatening to tickle people until they give in and let you have your way?

worked for me

starone - I want the frames to change the colors (which they do), but without the jumping part. Then I want my design which is different shapes on top of the frames to just glitter.

the jumping part?
that suggests that the frames of animation are not all the same size, or that you have told your skin that it has the wrong frame size, or the wrong frame count.

feline thinks we need a bigger language

this would be much easier with more wiggle graphics - quick line drawing sketch type of things

you should be able to overlay a sparkle effect by just adding the components of the sparkle to the current set of animation frames. the only down side is that the sparke would be in sync with the color changes.

i am not quite sure i know what you mean about the rest of it though.

have you ever head of the UIS3 format?

i have seen rumors. it is supposed to be a much more powerful skinning language - more complex to of course. i dont know if it has been released yet though. perhaps this is a road to explore.

i am not *just* a big tease you know!

i dont really recognise these components, so i will go hunting for some comparisons in a little bit, and see what i can see.

it may be a silly question, but you have made sure that all your frames for a given side are the same size havent you?

as for loosing it, whats so terrible about that? sanity is over-rated anyway

last night i managed to get one smartbutton working on the XPCopper skin.

the code you had provided was supposed to produce several buttons, and WB even said there were several of them, but i just couldnt get more than one at a time to work

however, having got a quick launch menu button working, it did fire off IE correctly. no real surprise there, but this way we can agree on a minute set of UIS code to add to any skin to test this problem. this can then be posted, and we can see if anyone else can reproduce your problem.

Yeah, progress at last. Finally got my frames to stop jumping - they stand still and change colors. Now to go for the added animation (holding my breath). You were right about the size of the frame. Somehow my graphic was off on one of the sides. It was driving me crazy. I think the animation will be pretty neat if I can pull it off. Anyway, it will be one less headache.

By the way, I feel a growing thread in the progress. What can I say?

feline wonders how long before we get another "have you seen them" thread in our honor

Well, when I added the additional animation my frames started jumping again. So dropped that for the time being and went on to another endeavor and saving it for later.

As far as the honor, they may say been there and done that.

You bet! Thought you had given up on it. Me, well, been working on this new skin and am just about done. Mainly tweaking. Took out the menu button since I can't seem to get it to work and will try again in the next one. I figure eventually it's got to work, question is will it be Skin #3, #4 or #5?. In the meantime, if you gain any insight, post quickly.

Yeah, you're back on the scene! Glad you could leave the chocolate planet and come visit. Hope you have some success with this darn menu thing.

i dont surpose you use Gimp do you?

i have started playing around with desktopX over the last couple of days.

however, i cannot get JScript to work

so in the mean time i thought i would have a look at doing more basic things first. however the problem now is i need graphics to do anything.

so, i have gimp, but no idea of how to use it

feline hugs Doreen
i hadnt found that one yet.
i have found a link to a 20meg zip of a manual, which i will download soon.

now all i need is some time to read all this

where have you been hiding? havent seen you around here recently.

feline *innocent as the driven snow*

gimp is a graphics program. it is supposed to be deeply powerful, and is free.

i am working on the basis that i stand a better chance with gimp than with skinstudio.

worst case scenario i can always download and read the source code for gimp
feline *mannic giggle*