What is the hardest part of Windowblinds to skin?

joetheblow

Join Date 12/2001

What is the hardest part of Windowblinds to skin?

For me, the hardest part to come up with a matching working part for the skin is the title bar buttons. I have such a hard time figuring out what they will look like and if they really go with the skin style.

The second thing would be the scroll bars. They always look funny to me or I have great scrol bars that don't match the skin

I end up making a new skin to match the scroll bars.

Every thing else about WB seems to go well as far as coming up with a look and continuos style.

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User images should always be assumed to be 48x48 pixels. If you have any trouble with positioning on the user pane, I suggest you take a look at my 'metalX' skin. Somehow I managed to find a good balance there.

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Buttons, bloody buttons...what a nightmare

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Scrollbars and logoff buttons are hard. Titlebar buttons arent. (IMHO)

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Yes logoff, work of the Devil those things

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I completly LOVE the xp panels!!!!

And the dialog background is pretty neat too. and explorer background too.

Hate the mouse over on the more programs... I can never seem to get the color I want there.

I am missing something in that part.
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He-he...I almost started a thread like this only it was gonna be "What is your favorite part of WB to skin?"

Hmm. I think it's all a 'challenge' for me (I'm still so new to it all, after ALL) but I have to say I'm always the most LEAST happy with my scrollbar shaft and buttons...they always seem to fall short of my vision and it's always a challenge to try and add enough detail to something that you can tile properly and not have it look like a visual mess...and so on and so on...

My favorite things to do are the start-panel images because I don't have to worry about tiling as much and can have a little more freedom...so I always save that for last cuz that's my baby. hehe

Hmm. Freedom & WINDOWS?

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Did anyone see that motion is back?

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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Did anyone see that motion is back?

Yes. I thought it was a mirage........

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I do believe that is motion's post up there. I just noticed it.

I guess I am a little behind in my reading.

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DaWebMassa

Join Date 06/2001

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Setting all the colors is the biggest pain in the rear to me. Too many colors to set and trying to decide what goes with the skin but isn't too butt ugly is by far my least liked part of skinning.

Scrollbars are one of my favorite parts unlike most everyone else here.

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