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I need some help with shellstyles.

June 3, 2003 9:19:45 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
When I apply a skin to my system, and I open the folders My Music, My Pictures and My Videos, it shows the skined shells on the left but it does not show the image on the bottom right of the window.
Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

Thankx for any help.
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MikeB314
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Reply #1 June 3, 2003 1:11:27 PM
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Is this with a skin you're making or one you've downloaded? If the latter, which skin is it? The shell folder backgrounds need to be indexed color bitmaps to display properly.

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Reply #2 June 3, 2003 5:36:42 PM
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This happens with all skins. The only shells that are shown are the ones on the left. eg ShellStyleSmallPicture, ShellStyleSmallFilm, ShellStyleSmallMusic, etc. But the other shells are not showing.
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Reply #3 June 3, 2003 6:51:20 PM
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UGH, and double UGH evennnnnnnnnn...

I'm having the same prob too A_67...and the only skin so far that I've found this part of the shellstyles to work (even though I'm sure there are plenty others but I've just been testing out a few) and that is Mormegil's FauS-TOON skin. I'm sure it's something simple to fix (I HOPE ) but so far even after studying the image info in Mormegil's skin I STILL can't get mine to show up.

I'll probably figure it out as soon as I post this...sure...yeah...that's the ticket!



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Reply #4 June 3, 2003 7:16:48 PM
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I have a similar problem with the Do Not Modify bitmap.



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Reply #5 June 3, 2003 8:28:25 PM
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A_67, the large shellstyle images work for me in my HalfLife skin and also in the skin I'm working on now. They are saved in Indexed bmp (8 bit, I think).
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Reply #6 June 3, 2003 8:30:28 PM
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Okay, WHAT IS indexed bmp? I work in PSP...



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Reply #7 June 3, 2003 8:31:52 PM
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Oh 8 bit. hmmm.

Angel_Wings trots off to try the 8bit!



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Reply #8 June 3, 2003 8:42:53 PM
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I hate to throw a monkey wrench in the works, but I couldn't get my large shell backs working until I saved them as 24 bit.................. 



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Reply #9 June 3, 2003 8:44:34 PM
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Shmoopy try decreasing to 256 color.Optimized Octree, Error Diffusion, Reduce Color Bleeding. All that last part is in the dialog that comes up when you reduce to 256
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Reply #10 June 3, 2003 8:49:11 PM
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Thanky pic, I'll try that!



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Reply #11 June 3, 2003 8:54:23 PM
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Koasati, this is very strange. My Verdant skin works and the images are RGB 8bits per channel but my Entropy skin does not and it's images are also RGB 8bits per channel. The Halflife is indexed 8bits per channel and it works.
Hmm, further investigation is in order
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Reply #12 June 3, 2003 9:45:50 PM
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Ok this is the issue.
I have 2 computers, both are running XP Pro and both have WB4
On one PC everything works great, shells, buttons, etc
On my other PC I apply the skins, but only part of the shells are displayed. The large movie, picture, music and search shell are not displayed.
So Im wondering if there is something that neds to be activated or checked.?
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Reply #13 June 3, 2003 9:49:20 PM
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Check Control Panel->Performance and Maintenance-> Adjust Visual Effects-> Use background image for each folder type. Make sure its checked.
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Reply #14 June 4, 2003 12:09:37 AM
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Yeah,Thats my PC so please Help!! Before i break it and take over my Babes
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Reply #15 June 4, 2003 12:25:23 AM
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Thankx jcg, Thank you lots. You save my PC from the grasps of my gal. Everything she touches, she breaks. Im surprise Im still in one piece
She got her PC fix now, so my PC is safe once again
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Reply #16 June 4, 2003 12:29:04 AM
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@BABE >
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Reply #17 June 4, 2003 6:59:30 AM
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To make it even more complicated, I had a very strange issue today : I imported the shellstyle of another skin to one that had none. I applied the skin and everything was fine. Then I made a shellbar bmp, applied it and still everything was good. So I wanted to change the buttons of the shellbar. The original ones where tga's and I changed them to custom made bmp's. In Skinstudio everything looked superb after applying them and reloading the skin. But : I was left with no shellstyles at all in explorer, just the standard folder/files list. Re-applied the tga's again and shellstyles were there. I found that rather strange. Ended up with pasting the new bmp's into the old tga's and now verything works like it should.
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Reply #18 June 4, 2003 8:05:24 AM
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hope SkinStudio is watching this thread



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Adam Najmanowicz
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Reply #19 June 4, 2003 8:17:12 AM
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c242, have you disabled PerPixel after replacing TGAs with BMPs? I guess that may be the issue.
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Reply #20 June 4, 2003 10:32:53 AM
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Ehrm, No. *blush*
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Reply #21 June 4, 2003 10:58:01 AM
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I take it as "it works now", great!
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Reply #22 June 4, 2003 1:50:51 PM
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It does. Thanks !
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Reply #23 June 8, 2003 12:15:00 AM
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Have similar problem.Shellstyle large bmp's keep disappearing and reappearing.Background bmp's dont show at all and some skins wont even skin the common task area.Changing skins will sometimes bring these things back,sometimes not.Skinstudio shows the code as correct but WB4 is not applying them correctly.Seems to be a bug with WB4.Any way to fix this?
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Reply #24 June 8, 2003 12:16:14 AM
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Been thru the usual reinstall and repair routines.No luck.
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