Neo_3k

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well, bootskin didn't like that much better, I'll keep trying though

Reply to BootSkin and XP style progress bars... in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

grrr didn't display right here's a pic

Reply to BootSkin and XP style progress bars... in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I appologoze about the first post, looking at it now it wasn't descriptive enough. So to be more specific... Make a "block", then put two of them on the same "bar" (copy the "block", stretch the "bar" out longer, and paste the "block" at the end). what you would get is somthing like this [][] where the -'s are just blank backgroung color The key is to make the total area between the two "blocks" far enough they don't repeat and look weird, and also make the whole "ba

BootSkin and XP style progress bars... in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I have found a way to produce original XP style progress bars for use in bootskin screens the secret in making the seemless scroll is in the width of the actual bar's bitmap (the little dots, or pictures that scroll acrossed the screen). I made one that is 260 pixels long, made the "pattern blocks" one pixel from the end on either side and only made the pattern 22 pixels wide. This gives the illusion of a continous scroll not a scroll right re-load and repeat. I have made a dem