Just teasing. Scared ya didn’t I? It seems everybody loves a good controversy! I, being none too innocent of those charges.

Hey this is a skinning site and what-da-ya know? I have a SERIOUS skinning question but first I’d just like to clear the air by saying…

My last thread was not a case for histrionics or emotional flatulence (okay, I eeked a few out and I’m a stinkin’ ordinary mortal but take a walk in my moccasins and you’ll see it ain’t easy being me sometimes), sure, yeah and yes I was notably upset but that was because I couldn’t understand what the heck was going on regarding the top downloads [admittedly I sounded a bit hysterical…forgive me? Ah well, don’t then! ] and all of the 'mystery' waffling around the subject didn't help either but T-man finally revealed how the tallies are being counted and at last it all makes logical (logic, imagine that?) sense to me which was all I really wanted was a reasonable explanation (and MadIce, to answer your question FINALLY, yes, I edited two of my messages because I was angry and it got aimed at you which wasn’t right of me to do no matter how inflamed I felt by some of your comments and also, thank you for the gracious comments you made on my skin).

Ick, glad THAT is out of the way.

NOW onto the topic at hand:

Firstly, I don’t like pointing out flaws in my own work (who does?) but I MUST and since I see this same flaw occurring ALL OF MY SKINS as well as in many of the latest skins (even some big name authors) I figure there’s got to be some sort of explanation or some way to resolve this…*sigh*

So, here’s the problem…I’ve noticed that my skins which all have custom made (in PSP) window frame tops and sides look absolutely off-kilter when windows within an app are minimized within that particular app (for example: Paintshop Pro & Skinstudio)…and not only that…the minimized window CLOSES rather than opens full view when clicking on the maximize from the minimize state…See visual example: http://www.darkseraphim.com/ds/skinz/example.jpg

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out what is going wrong with mine as well as so many other skins from other authors and the only thing I’ve concluded thus far is that it has something to do with the odd-sized (pixel height) window frame top/sides… I’ve studied skins that don’t have this problem and they seem to stick to a fairly close formulaic pixel height (25 pixels)…for example Treetog’s Sage skin does not have this ‘flaw’ that mine and many others do.

Is it just a math thing? Any ideas on how to solve this riddle that’s been driving me bonkers?

Or does anyone even care?

P.S. A special note to Adni18…((((BIG HUG))))