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Help => Windows 7 => Topic started by: Katsuo on February 13, 2010, 09:19:08 pm



Title: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 13, 2010, 09:19:08 pm
Hey,
I have a problem with the sizing of the Taskband item buttons.
My original PNG has a gradient that doesn't display right when I apply the theme, so I tried changing the sizing margins to the path "Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton" where the image is located but it didn't work.
Image:

(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/268/problem1pt.png)

How can I fix this?
Thanks!


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: iJesse on February 13, 2010, 09:34:37 pm
An idea would be mess with the sizing margins, and if that didn't work just make the taskbar buttons smaller.  7 is just sizing them smaller in the wrong way.


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 13, 2010, 10:43:00 pm
An idea would be mess with the sizing margins, and if that didn't work just make the taskbar buttons smaller.  7 is just sizing them smaller in the wrong way.

It didn't work, and I kinda guessed it in advance since the problem occurs with small icons too. Thanks for trying though ..


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Vzdorjii on February 14, 2010, 12:47:44 pm
Did you try to "shift-import" your image ?


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 14, 2010, 01:43:10 pm
Did you try to "shift-import" your image ?

Good point, thanks. That -kind of- worked, the gradient is displaying properly now but it is opaque even though I have Transparent:bool checked..

(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1440/problem2.png)

Any ideas?


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: 2befine on February 14, 2010, 05:18:30 pm
I think
Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton   BGTYPE:ENUM IMAGEFILE


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 14, 2010, 05:57:22 pm
I think
Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton   BGTYPE:ENUM IMAGEFILE

It's already set to imagefile


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: 2befine on February 14, 2010, 06:32:08 pm
Can I take a look your theme file?


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 14, 2010, 11:18:51 pm
Can I take a look your theme file?

Sorry but I'd rather keep it private for the moment. Tell me what you want to know about the theme and I'll give you the info..


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: 2befine on February 15, 2010, 12:02:48 am
a lot of things can be reason, I wanted figure out what's wrong but in that case I can't help, sry.


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: iJesse on February 17, 2010, 01:39:38 am
Well what you need to do is save a 32 bit bmp with a alpha channel and through it into a alpha converter and then click shift+import


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Panda X on February 17, 2010, 02:38:00 pm
WSB doesn't import images with gradients properly.


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 17, 2010, 05:31:11 pm
WSB doesn't import images with gradients properly.

Yeah I noticed somehow... lol
But that never happened before so I don't know. I'll try using Restorator to change the image then.

EDIT: Didn't work even with Restorator. The gradient still appears opaque.


Title: Re: TaskItemButton Sizing.
Post by: Katsuo on February 17, 2010, 05:59:22 pm
Well what you need to do is save a 32 bit bmp with a alpha channel and through it into a alpha converter and then click shift+import

Results in plain white buttons..