Still working on some of the details of the taskbar and the vertical version. Almost ready to post the rest.

This is really good Po. Thanks

Thank you.

Just got back from MRI and ma pretty seriously gronked. They hadda give some stufff to get me in the tube and hold still long enufgh.

imma gonna lurk around today if i dont passsout at the sekf first.desk. imeant desk. desk.

i bet i could make a reallly coool fractl right now.

I won't be able to lend any direct support for a while: https://forums.wincustomize.com/419510

My help will have to be theoretical (based on memory) until I can get my lappy sorted out.

No problem. I hope it's just a dusty graphics card, Tim. Good luck.

I spent yesterday drugged and shoved in an mri tube and am still recovering. I think they gave me a bit to much adavan cause I'm still feeling foggy.

I'll be getting back on the skin this week. I have appt for pre-op tomorrow. No excuses, but I have been pretty medicated and just hurting. The 'mouse' hurts my hands and I am looking for something I can work with. I just don't have the $ to drop on something that won't help or work out and I don't know what's good but I can manage some for now with what I have.

Please, hang in.

PM me any well wishes or what have you if you feel the need as I really don't want to bog the thread with a lot of drivel.

Wiil do.

taskbar group menu thing is not needed if your skinning for windows 7 (i forgot what we are skinning, please remind me)

and skin your effing quick launch (its like eating pumpkin but do it)

oh and ps.

i am avaible for tech support if my norway friend timmers isnt.

i have a message for tim too :

Jag tycker inte om ätt kanelbulle !!!!!  (its very offensive.. i wouldnt google it if i were you, im learing swedish and im picking up the most horrible and offensive things!!!)

and one more...

vill du fika??

(actually, ill be honest, my first comment was that "i dont like to eat cinnamonbuns" and the second one was "would you like to go for a coffee" very harmless.. just incase the google translate dosent work for people

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Zubaz

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Is it OK to place bets on this never getting finished?

 

Assuming you all still have SkinStudio open....

What???

Shut up.

Select Edit Horizontal Taskbars>Rebar Gripper

Import your image (Roan-TB-Rebar-HZ.png in the Updated Taskbar download in the Graphics Gallery)

And use the following settings :

On the Image Tab -

Then select the Painting Tab and apply the following settings -

Save Skin.

While still in the Edit Horizontal Taskbar window, select Expander under the Tray section.

On the Image Tab, select the arrow next to Edit and select Frame Builder.

In the Sub Frame Builder window, select Import Into All Frames

There are 6 frames for the Expander. You will import Roan-TB-Button-Arrow-01.png into ALL of the frames. This tells the frame builder what size each frame needs to be as they all must be the same size/dimension. After you have done this, select Import Into Selected Frame. If you are using the images from the download, they are Roan-TB-Button-Arrow-01.png thru 06.png and should be imported in that order so you see this : 

Select 'Save with alpha channel' and make sure your frame count is set accordingly. Select 'Save file as'... and close the window. Be sure to have This image uses transparency selected in your Image Tab panel.

In the Painting Tab, use the following settings : 

Save Skin.

Now we're going to do the Quicklaunch Buttons.

I currently am unable to test them, but under advice, I went ahead and made them. We'll apply them here and IF you are following and using Vista, let me know how they work. I will try to get a saved copy of the blind to someone with Vista to check/test in the mean time.

In the Edit Horizontal Taskbar window, select Quick Launch Icon Button. We're going to be following the same steps we used to apply the Expander.

On the Image Tab, select the arrow button next to the Edit button and then select Frame Builder.

In the Sub Frame Builder window select Import Into All Frames.

Now - import Roan-QLB-02.png. This png will appear in ALL of the six states.

All the pngs for the QL Buttons are the same size. The actual images in the pngs vary in size (which you will see in the next image) I import the png whose image is the largest to make sure Frame Builder uses the same space for each state.

Now select Import Into Selected Frames. The Roan-QLB-  .png's are numbered 01 thru 06 and should be imported in that order. After you import all 6 pngs, you should have what you see below.

Select 'Save with alpha channel' and make sure your frame count is set accordingly. Select 'Save file as'... and close the window. Be sure to have This image uses transparency selected in your Image Tab panel.

In the Painting Tab, use the following settings : 

Save Skin.

As far as the Horizontal Taskbar goes, this is all I am doing for now. I believe everything that is needed has been skinned. I'm not sure yet if I am going to stay with the Start Button that you've seen. Any other changes that are made (particularly the Quick Launch Buttons) will be updated as they happen.

What I am going to do now is move on to the Vertical Taskbar. We'll be using a lot of the parts we already applied on the Horizontal Taskbar , some with and without modifications to fit Vertical Taskbar.