Maybe some of you expert fellas could help me on this.

I'm putting together my first icon pack and I created my designs in a vector art package. I resized the vectors from the original (which I made at 128x128) down through the various sizes to 16x16. In the vector prog they still look fine at that size, but my exported 16x16 pngs look decidedly jaggy.

What techniques could I use to make sure that my smallest icons look legible?

Having had a lot of fun getting the text background to work ok on my per pix title bars (it seems the text background doesn't want to be the same height as the actual titlebar, regardless of the content margins), I now find that it doesn't fit the maximised title bar (which uses the same image as the non-maximised titlebar).

Any expert out there know what might be going wrong?

It seem to me that you can only either centre, top or bottom align the text on the per pix title bars. Am I right or is it possible to set an offset, like on the 'standard' (i.e. wbv4 non-per-pix) title bar text?

Eh? Hmmm? Well??


Thanks. Tim.

I'm a new skinner and just designing my first WB5 skin...

Ok - here's the real question. I don;t know what the 'Shellstyle (unofficial)' section in SkinStudio. There are three sub sections - 'additional images', 'embedded strings' and 'blah blah low level blah'.

Anyone tell me what those sections are for?

I thank you.

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The new skin pack is out! For the price of your average PC magazine, three exclusive WindowBlinds skins - Corporate, Jent and Raven.

Just a teaser. The first skin in my next skin pack is nearly ready, and I have the next on already in mind.

The layout for a checkbox is three lots (non checked, selected, and mixed) of four images (normal, mouseover, pressed, disabled)...

My question is, what does 'mixed' mean?

Eh? Huh?

Anyone any idea if or where the Silica MP3 widget stores the data about the last opened folder or playlist?

Also is there a way to set the default 'folder' as 'My Music' rather than 'my documents' (or possibly some other folder...) ??

Sorry if these are silly questions. There is a possibility that I'm just being thick.

Thanks.

Well, it's about time I added something in my sporadic page of articles. My last (rather tragic) entry was apologising to Steve Grenier for a less than positive comment on his Tiger skin - which was a bad thing to do! Sigh.

So what's been happening (man). Since the last skin pack I've been slightly less busy on the WB front, but that was intentional. I think you need to take a break regularly to let the creative juices circulate a while, and mine have been stagnating for a while!

But, dur...

I'm experiencing problems with one of my PCs. Double-click on icons, or choose something from the start menu and I get an hourglass for a few seconds... then nothing. It's as if the program hasn't run. Checking out Task Manager, the list of tasks doesn't show it running, but looking through the list of processes, there is a process there!

Looks like it doesn't affect all apps. Firefox doesn't run. Some items in Control Panel don't run (e.g. user management). Explorer, Word and Outlook DO run...

Is there a way to set the fonts in favorites and toolbar menus? I'm getting rather large fonts sometimes and I don't know where those fonts are set. (I'm a bit of a noob at this WindowBlinds malarky.)

Oh darn it. I posted a comment on Steve Grenier's Mac 'Tiger' skin saying it was boring.

First, I apologise to Steve, who's obviously put tons of work into putting the skin (and indeed a whole desktop theme) together, and second, to anyone who is enjoying using the skin and now thinks I'm a total idiot. I've corrected the comment and slapped myself about the head.

Why did I say it was boring in the first place? Well, it isn't Steve's skin that my thoughts were directed at really. Part of...

The wait is over!

The first exciting thing is that Stardock is hosting a pack of my Premium skins for $9.95. If you have missed out on my earlier packs, then you can take the pick of the bunch in one go.

Stardock Article Link

Next we have my new pack - Vantage. The three skins are Coober (golden and sleek), Primer (deep blue with a splash of bright colours), and 'Skeech' (mean, green and clean - one of the skins in the Stardock pack). You can now pay by either BMT Micro (a secure Cred...

Is it possible to have the skin of WMP change when a particular media clip (video) is downloaded? Anyone know?