SkinStudio8 Issue

Five days and no response?

Maybe email or PM Neil?

Did that once on another issue a long time ago Jim, never got a response, but I'll try again.

Hi LightStar,

This is a easy one, this is because they are two different menus, the top settings are from the old skinning era,

like win 98 and XP, since Vista Microsoft introduced a second menubar style, the one at the bottom of your screenshot.

As I was explaining to another user early, you may know that SkinStudio let you use custom and experimental settings,

this is a great thing for skinning, the problem is that not everyone knows or tried everything so sometimes, mixed settings can

bring different results because sometimes on settings can overwrite another.

The thing is that right now the menu bars like "File, Edit, View, Help, Etc" are the section "Menu Bar Options", in fact "Menu Bar Options"

are in fact the "Menu Bar Buttons", and like the Toolbar sections, the buttons that command the text settings, not the Toolbar background,

the Normal state that defines the menubar text colour and the other states define the hover, pressed, etc, the things is that if the normal

state of the graphic is not present because the OS not use it or because it's possible to use it but the skinner make it invisible, the text there

is still the Button text and not the background text.

SkinStudio really need a cleanup but this may need some changes in WB too, and it wasn't really possible before because old skins

that still use old settings will not work right, now that XP and Vista are no longer supported, a clean up could happen, I think that the ideal

is to have a new SkinStudios separated form the actual one that would not have old settings at all, so if you need to edit a old skin, you go

with the old SKS, if you're making a new skin, you would go with the "news" SKS.

If you could tell me what exactly you want to do with the menubar and the selection colours, I can try to help you to achieve that.

Just to better understand what I meant up there, you can skin many parts in different ways, if you remove all the text settings from

the "Menu Bar Options" section for example, the menu bar (including the buttons) will start using the text settings from another part,

I'm not 100% sure right now without looking but I believe it will start using one of the Toolbar buttons text settings.

Anyway, let me know if I can help and I'll be glad to try

Thanks for trying to help Dani, but I am looking for a permanent solution to what should not have been an issue in the first place. Sorry, but SKS 8 needs a complete rewrite if it is only for Windows 7 and 8 now, not just a bunch guessing and workarounds.

I guess what I am saying is a setting should do exactly what it says it will do, otherwise it should not be there in the first place.

No problem LightStar, I'm sorry that I cannot offer you a more immediate solution but I'll try to help Neil the best I can to get the best SkinStudio for us all

Thanks Dani, I hope that comes true.

Which means better skins for everybody! Now that is worth some karma.

yup what he says