start menu item mouse over

Published on September 10, 2007 By CraigSnedeker In Skinning

Ive seen people make themes where in the start panel, the items (i.e. my documents, firefox, etc) were a custom image, not a blue color. how do i do this? thanks

Comments (Page 1)

vStyler

on Sep 10, 2007

In SKS5 its Start Panel > Item in the tree on left.

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 10, 2007

ok. one more question (not related) i made this custom start menu, saved them as a PNG, and SS puts these white lines on all the sides i cant get rid of. do u know how?

NightTrainthedark

on Sep 10, 2007

Check your transparency settings in Skinstudio for the images. The settings are not correct for a .png (.tga).

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 10, 2007

how do i do that?

vStyler

on Sep 10, 2007

Make sure that you have the checkboxes for transparency and translucency checked in SKS or else it will be treated like a non-trans image.

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 10, 2007

i did that. i also set the transparenty thingy to PER PIXEL ALPHA. did i do something wrong to something more i need to do?

vStyler

on Sep 10, 2007

not that I can think of unless your not saving your PNG's correctly.

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 10, 2007

i do that. ialso set the transparentsy to PER PIXEL ALPHA

vStyler

on Sep 10, 2007

upload it to www.sendspace.com leave a link, I or someone will take a look.

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 10, 2007

ill use a differant host, but ok.

sleepydawg

on Sep 10, 2007

Margins might be out of place. Pumakitten has a great set of tuts here.WWW Link
Think I read something about the margins leaving white lines. Wish I could help you more but I am still trying to make a skin myself. Good luck.

vStyler

on Sep 10, 2007

ill use a differant host

why?

CraigSnedeker

on Sep 11, 2007

sleepydawg, ill try it, thanks

vStyler, lol i dont know

Vampothika

on Sep 12, 2007

jesus.......try also looking in 'painting options' and make sure perpixel is set to 1 not 0. check the Background Effect and set that to 1 also.

Also click on STartPanel and enable hide shadows.......

hope that helps....

sublime187

on Sep 13, 2007

what i did was edit the file with xp paint and filled in the wite with magic pink! then make sure that you do what vstyler said in reply#5

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