On a side note, but somewhat related. If you are using Firefox and think that the toolbars are ugly with a particular skin, you can use the Personas add on to completely change the way they look. There are a few really good ones out there. The cool thing is that you can just mouseover a Persona to see what it would look like before you even apply it.

Find them here:  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/

Obviously, if your skinning, you want to make sure you can read everything without a Persona applied, but they can make everything look so much nicer. I prefer the solid color ones over the 'busy' ones so it's less distracting, but there are so many to choose from that you might spend a while finding the perfect one.

Hi, all;

Over the last couple of days, I keep coming back to the same thing.  I can't find why my popup and favorites menus load into the preview window in SKS, but none of my Windows applications display them.  Backgrounds, menu items, and text color and font all look as I want them to in that preview, but when I open something like Windows Explorer, or IE8, I just see the defaults.  Other changes to other elements that I've made since that page are working just fine.  I'm using the same background image I used for the background of the all programs list of the start menu which has always worked.  Am I missing something obvious?

Peace,

Dave

Hi there!

Both of those options in extra settings are disabled.  At some point this evening, I noticed that the rt. click menus were skinning with my wood background and frame in Photoshop, but the drop down menus are still white in PS and in Firefox.  Since your message, I checked the drop downs in Explorer; they're skinning properly now, too!  I wore Pressurized again, but this time, the grunged version; the drop downs in PS and Firefox are that sort of raspberry color, but don't have the grunged texture on them.

I'm confused, I think.  Where are those dropdown boxes and text color & fonts set?  Did you do that in WB, or in system colors?  If the latter, I had no idea that WB carried those aspects of a skin in the WBA Package.

Also, do you have any clue yet why those margins of my buttons are often broken?  It's not just in FF, it's also happening in SKS and PS.  The image in post 228 above shows what 6 of those buttons look like when lined up on a toolbar without any borders on any of their sides.

Peace,

Dave

I think I have your correct email.  I tried to send the file, received an error message before the message left my machine, sent a test message which looked like it went through.  Cleaned the WBA to reduce it's size a bit, seemed to send.  Let me know if you didn't get these 2 messages, and I'll figure out what to do next.

Thank you,

Dave

I cannot duplicate that button problem, they look just fine on my machine. I don't know why they are doing that on yours.

Are y'all drawing the toolbar icons in the Explorer and IE6 section by hand?  The examples I've looked at are pretty spectacular.

Peace,

Dave

Peace,

Dave

Oooohhh!  I see!  I've only used that tool to draw the predefined shapes that come with PS.  This'll be fun!  Thanks!

Heh heh, well, what I meant about being fun was learning something totally new to me about PS.  In researching the shape tool, I found I needed to know more about the pen tool, too, so am following that tutorial now.  As far as the icons themselves go, I generally like little tedious jobs like that.  We'll see though; there are a lot of them.

Peace,

Dave