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does right click background have to be a bmp or is png okay too?

February 20, 2009 4:07:54 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

i am going to make my first right click to accompany my intoxica wb.......hmm i have some questions as im a noob right click skinner

1. is there coding involved? (as in having to change coding ect)

2. can the background be png or only bmp

3. i would love someone to volunteer and email me and give me some tips on how to make them...as im pretty confused

4. what are the arrows for?

5. when i have finally made it, how to i package it? is it zip?

 

thanks!!!

 

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Reply #1 February 20, 2009 4:34:35 PM
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1. is there coding involved? (as in having to change coding ect)

not coding.........but settings contained within a .obskin or .menuskin file

2. can the background be png or only bmp

bmp and you need to use magic pink to create transparency

3. i would love someone to volunteer and email me and give me some tips on how to make them...as im pretty confused

best thing is to open one up and see what's in it.....change settings and see what they do

4. what are the arrows for?

arrowpopup and arrowpopupselected are the only 2 you really need to worry about....they point to secondary menus

5. when i have finally made it, how to i package it? is it zip?

yes....copy the whole directory into a zip file

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Reply #2 February 20, 2009 5:25:42 PM
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wow, thanks for that Lantec.........that helps me heaps....

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Reply #3 February 20, 2009 5:50:00 PM
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couple of  tips:

1. If you are making one from a blind, use The UIS2 window frames for the background. If they have rounded corners, you have already put in the pixel editing work!

2. Rediscover mspaint

 

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Reply #4 February 20, 2009 5:57:49 PM
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Heading into new territory ay, Kitty?
Looking forward to useing/testing the result!

Quoting 2of3,
reply 3

If you are making one from a blind, use The UIS2 window frames for the background. If they have rounded corners, you have already put in the pixel editing work!
 

Well.... any other pic *can* be used, even shaded PNGs/TGAs - with some careful modding
(Been there - done that)

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Reply #5 February 20, 2009 6:00:01 PM
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hmm...im doing sort of okay so far........ i didnt realize that right click was actually so small...!! i guess the font is something i have to play with until i get it right..... i made my background image huge thinking the actual image would be bigger, i made it 350 x 500 ........does that matter??

 

thankyou 2of3 for your tips.......

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Reply #6 February 20, 2009 6:00:54 PM
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[quote who="Snowman" reply="4" id="2067966"]Heading into new territory ay, Kitty?
Looking forward to useing/testing the result!



yeppers!!!!

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Reply #7 February 20, 2009 6:18:59 PM
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Well.... any other pic *can* be used, even shaded PNGs/TGAs - with some careful modding

lol

it's so great to sit 2 inches from your screen staring at magic pink pixels....what a joy!

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Reply #8 February 20, 2009 6:24:34 PM
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what about the margins......im having a bit of trouble with those....ive made my image wider to adjust (yes im doing this the hard way) the top of the frame has wings, the same as my top_pp frames in my wb that i have shown in my wip.....i guess just keep fugging with them till its right?

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Reply #9 February 20, 2009 6:27:30 PM
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try opening the skin with SKS5 and adjust the margins in skinstudio

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Reply #10 February 20, 2009 6:40:06 PM
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ohhh......i dont have 5 anymore......i ditched it for 6    ill try to find it, i might still have it on my pc

okay, i found sk5, but i cant see where i can open and play with that background.........

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Reply #11 February 20, 2009 6:44:12 PM
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ohhh......i dont have 5 anymore......i ditched it for 6 ill try to find it, i might still have it on my pc

it's still available through impulse

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Reply #12 February 20, 2009 6:49:29 PM
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im sorry im so dumb guys.........i feel so stupid.........

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Reply #13 February 20, 2009 6:49:41 PM
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The Margins are just the same as for a WB, need to be set inside the part of image you do not want to be stretched, both ways, if you have an intricate pattern at the top, all the way, the part of it between the left and right width will still be stretched even when top width is set below pattern. Thus you need to keep any intricate designing to the edges of image so there is something between them to be stretchable. Hope this makes sense.

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Reply #14 February 20, 2009 6:52:19 PM
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AH!!! FINALLY got the margins right........ill THINK ill be okay now.........(i think) thanks for everyones help.......if i have more issues.......ill be back to post.

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Reply #15 February 20, 2009 7:00:00 PM
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Hey Vampothika, I was adding more info to my reply while you were posting.

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Reply #16 February 20, 2009 7:00:19 PM
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Quoting Cavan1,
reply 13
The Margins are just the same as for a WB, need to be set inside the part of image you do not want to be stretched, both ways, if you have an intricate pattern at the top, all the way, the part of it between the left and right width will still be stretched even when top width is set below pattern. Thus you need to keep any intricate designing to the edges of image so there is something between them to be stretchable. Hope this makes sense.

 

yes it does. thankyou nt

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Reply #17 February 20, 2009 8:04:42 PM
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Quoting 2of3,
reply 7

it's so great to sit 2 inches from your screen staring at magic pink pixels....what a joy!

If I had a dollar for every minute I've done just that...... I'd buy Australia

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Reply #18 February 20, 2009 8:15:37 PM
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If I had a dollar for every minute I've done just that...... I'd buy Australia

So that would be about 1 minute then.

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Reply #19 February 20, 2009 8:24:42 PM
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it's so great to sit 2 inches from your screen staring at magic pink pixels....what a joy!

Ahh the JOY! who doesnt love magic pink?!? its pink its magic its fluffy its unicorns its flying elephants! you know what im saying that nice feeling you get 3 in the morning with your zombie screentan holding your hand over ctrl+alt+z and zoomed in 600%

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Reply #20 February 21, 2009 12:18:11 AM
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hmm...new problem...how do you make the mouse over button sit *inside* the background area?....ive tried making it shorter but it dosent seem to work...........

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Reply #21 February 21, 2009 12:26:02 AM
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Quoting Snowman,
reply 17

If I had a dollar for every minute I've done just that...... I'd buy Australia

Frosty, would that make you my Boss?

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Reply #22 February 21, 2009 5:32:56 AM
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hmm...new problem...how do you make the mouse over button sit *inside* the background area?....ive tried making it shorter but it dosent seem to work...........

Rather than making the image shorter, make the canvas wider. Here is the image I made for the ZubaZ RC:

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Reply #23 February 21, 2009 8:42:39 AM
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Add these to lines to the .obskin/menuskin text file, they will move everything in from the edge of skin.


EdgeBuffer_Left=
EdgeBuffer_Right=

in general section right after

EdgeBuffer_Top=

EdgeBuffer_Bottom=

Then use

ItemIconBuffer_LeftOfIcon=10
ItemIconBuffer_BetweenTextAndIcon=8
ItemIconBuffer_RightTextClip=10
ItemTextOnlyBuffer_LeftOfText=10

 to tweak how everything sits.

 

For people like myself how use the meters, cpu, ram etc, the edgebuffer left and right is needed to move them and have them sit properly within background. When these settings are not used the meters do not look/sit right on almost all RC skins.

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Reply #24 February 21, 2009 8:50:34 AM
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Hey 2of3, that does work as well.

 

Vamp. here are the images than can be a TGA image

MouseoverItemSkin, SelectItemSkin, ArrowPopup, ArrowPopup_Selected and the SeparatorItemSkin, if you use a normal state for items (this can be most helpful for shadowing the text ) the image for it can also be a tga.

 

For a normal section add

 

[NormalItemSkin]
hBitmap=selected2.tga (remove this line if no image)
TopHeight=5
BottomHeight=5
LeftWidth=5
RightWidth=5
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0
UseTransparency=1
ShadowEffect=1
ShadowIntensityIcons=0
ShadowIntensityText=150
ShadowOffsetText.x=2
ShadowOffsetText.y=2
ShadowColor= 0 0 0
ShadowOffsetIcons.x=2
ShadowOffsetIcons.y=2
ShadowBlurIcons=2
ShadowBlurText=1
TextColor=255 255 255

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Reply #25 February 21, 2009 7:46:04 PM
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thanks 20f3 and Cavan1  I will try what you said and hopefully come back with some good results....will keep you posted xxxx

im such a noob at this!!! LOL

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