Content margins in popup menus

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Hi, I´m just about to make my first WB skin. Fist of all I wanna mention that I like the skinning interface of Skinstudio 6, though I have never worked with previous versions. Most things I found out myself, but what I couldn´t find is how to set the content margins for popup menus, maybe it is not yet or not implemented at all.

Another thing is that per pixel shadows of those popup menus don´t seem to be ok, the shadow doesn´t seem to use alpha blending of the original png but a simple square.

Oh, I´m working on Vista maybe that´s important.

And: Happy New Year to everybody here!

P.S. Guess I have some more questions especially to Vista special things but try to find out myself first...
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Unfortunately, there aren't any content margins for popup menus. The shadow is drawn by Windows and it assumes all menus are rectangular. So you have to either work with that, or disable those shadows and make the shadow part of your menu image instead. That doesn't leave you much room to work with though, since there are no content margins. This is the case on both XP and Vista. Good luck and happy new year to you too! :)
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Add HideShadows=1 into the code for that image.. then add a shadow to your menu image in Photoshop.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks a lot Mike and vStyler for the fast reply. :-)

the manual shadow work-around is a good idea, didn´t know how to turn the shadow off
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm, did the thing with the manual shadow, it´s even worse cause now the last item hangs somewhere almost within the shadow, because the shadow is part of the menu X-(

so now I even more need some content margin control

STARDOCK: we need content margin control for popup menus!

another thing is, that dark pixels are shown where the png is transparent, guess that´s definitely a bug!

Think I keep my old design and give the first and last item some special slim over-states...