I find scrollbars to be very hard to do. They're really quite a pain in the rear end I think.

I also don't like the way combo box buttons are handled. It seems like the glyphs are handled weirdly.

why don't you use bitmap Ms. crissy14?

I don't have wb4 so I don't know if you have to use tga's. I would assume you could use bitmaps just like the other part

yes?

I almost forgot, the third thing that is hard to skin is the start button. It is so hard to figure out what it should look like.


as you can see my problems mainly is what these areas should look like. I have allot on the drawing table and I can't sem o get past those three areas.

artist block maybe?

For me it's MDI buttons. They're akward to blend in if you're using a menubar bg image that's quite intricate.
My fav parts are the XP taskbar and menu. There's so much to work with on them, and lots of room to go crazy.

I'm just thinking of others. Don't want any innocent casualties......

Spinners! aarrgghh

Hate: Titlebar buttons, MDI buttons, StartPanelUserPane Text alignment (got a skin ready to go and the text just won't cooperate)

Love: Everything else

Did you know that horizontal scrollbar buttons are the same as horizontal spin buttons ? Just draw scrollbar buttons, copy/paste them as spin buttons. But without the scrollbar bolts > < ^ etc. For spin buttons you should use glyph image because when the spin buttons are stretched (as in skinstudio), they look odd.

The hardest part for me are the colors (like text, button face, etc.). It is hard to tell what color does exactly what. Everytime it is trial on error. Would be nice to have clear docs about that.

Also very hard to do is to make the skin compatible with older versions of WB or different flavours of Windows.

I use both SKS and a text editor. The naming conventions of the raw format are erm... a little odd to say the least. SKS does a good job in hiding that.

Most sections work the same (i.e. have the same basic ingredients), but a lot of sections do not work like you expect. SKS is a great help for those.

WB is notorious for not fixing bugs. Some of these bugs are there for years. Recently I have given up reporting bugs and I'll try to find ways to circumvent them instead.

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WB is nice, only I think skinning it becomes pretty easy, with liteSTEP you have new challenges all over again, same counts for winamp v3 and wmp

For me it is always an adventure The hardest part is the black textfonts you can't change. You have to adjust the background to make it readable and from there you end up with colours you don't want.... > And then you change it back to the old bg and you have that darn black non changeable font again
The nice thing is the adventure, going step by step and seeing the skin coming together...

That's because almost every skinner acounts for a 50x50 usericon(I'm guess you did that). In reality it should be 48x48.

The pull cord.