Great, I'm going to re-look at my skin usi. You're getting me re-excited about this you know!

Got me so excited, it should be skin uis. Oh, well.

a... would someone, gift me an objectbar copy? please...

well, i got around to trying the obvious version of the newsgroup posting by Neil for smartbuttons in WB 3.10, but no joy

i should catch up with the newsgroups again this weekend, so i will keep an eye out for any further comments on this one.

Thanks, I really do appreciate you.

I think my fingers are wearing out trying to get to the end of this thread. I bet it would take someone all day to read it.

do them good

i am still trying to get a coherant answer on the smartbars question from the newsgroups.

Downloaded the update of Skin Studio. It now has smartbutton support. Boy, has Adam done some really neat things with Skin Studio. I'm in the process of adding them in and testing them out. Will be back with you on the results. Got the info in the uis but haven't finished adding the buttons yet. To be quite honest, I was so busy checking out everything that was new and adding stuff that I completely forgot about the buttons (guess I'm a hopeless case).

we will crack this smartbutton thing yet!

Well, got the buttons done. They show up in the preview, show up in Windowblinds config, I don't get any error messages in the analyze part, but the buttons aren't showing up on my windowblind. Still can't change the URL. Let Adam know and asked if they haven't finished implementing or if I'm doing something wrong. Alas, alas. Can't test it out if my buttons aren't showing up on the windowblind so I still don't know anymore than I did.

Well, feline, if your still around here's the update. All the smartbuttons work for me except the menu thing (again). Same story. Brings up the menu, but the items on the menu still launch me into Object Edit. Can't seem to figure that one out. Beats me.

no no no!
you are a person
you have rights!
people are not alowed to beat you!

/me is currently on the up part of the manic depressive cycle

i am still around, but i have been running on stress and suger for the last few weeks at work, doing stupid hours to boot

hopefully i will get to go home this weekend, at which point i will download the latest version's of skin studio, and start experimenting.

at least if we can consistantly get smartbuttons to once more appear on the skin with WB 3.1 then we can do something

never fear, feline is hear!
/me wonders why people always screem and run away when i say this

Sorry about the busy schedule (I kinda figured it had something to do with the bars on the windows - guess I guessed right - it's to keep you working and not going home.)

Well, maybe there's hope.

This menu thing is getting to me. (I think it's tailspinning me on the verge of the manic depressive cycle - either that or my computer is in extreme danger.)

Well, back to plugging away at this new one. Take care.

can anyone help.... i'm after a full copy of objectbar or a patch for the shareware version please e-mail me with a site to get this from.. thanks


[email protected]

have the halucinations started nocking on the windows of your mind yet?

i am not sure that i am going to be that useful this weekend

but then, the deadline is only 5pm today (its now 7-30pm), and the penalties are only supposed to be on the order of the whole company gets to go under.

good thing they are stretching it till monday.

anyway, who needs illegal drugs? i have swimming fishes on my title bars, a tendancy to fall off my chair when not holding onto the desk, and a migrane thinking of arriving.

although thinking about it the fish may be Alexandrie's doing - just dont ask me to swear to that

your smart button problems really do sound like light releaf

Wow, swimming fishes on your titlebar. Where did you get them? Gives me an idea for another theme. You ought to see the one I'm doing, (called fiberoptic - guess that will give you an idea - really different - dancing sides top bottom plus an added ani all the while changing to three different colors.) If you want to give your mind a rest from spinning you could just watch it and let it take you away. Just wanted to do a fun one.

check out the aquarium skin, number 4 on the top downloads list as i type this. try:

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=2274

Thanks, downloaded it and will try it out.

there is something very soothing about stairing at my title bars and seeing little fishes swimming around.

probably the cat in me

Thanks, really neat. Wished I could get a similar effect with this one. Been trying to get just the animation (which unfotunately is on the top and two sides) to work by themselves without the 4 bars moving. Don't know if that is possible with using their anim.dll. Sure wish the animations were independent from the bars.

???
i was under the impression that you could animate any of the 4 window edges directly. there are at least 2 skins i know off that do this to some degree or other.

what are you trying to achieve, and what is the problem?

i have never tried to do anything like this, but i dont see why i should let my ignorance stand in my way

/me wonders if the sight of me skipping towards my own ignorance while grinning will be enough to scare it away, thus increasing my knowledge of skinning even more without work

Well, you asked for it - are you ready for this?

I have a total of 21 frames for each portion of the frame. I have a design (for lack of a better word for it) which is animated (animation of the left, right and top of the frame). I don't want the bars to animate, just the design. Humm, just had an idea. Can I do a separate file, say with a different extension, just for the animated design? But if I do that, I'm not sure it would stop the dancing frame since I still have to have the anim.dll in the uis file. I'll have to expremient in that area. Finally figured out how to animate the buttons thanks to your suggested download. I looked at the way it was done and bingo, it all made sense. I was trying to make it harder than it was (I owe you another one). Well, off to dancing bars, animated buttons and whatever other mischief I can get into.

and she strikes again


well, i spent an "instructive" half hour last night looking at smartbuttons in skin studio

following this i have come to a decision, which is that i am not going to bother with skinstudio any more. i just dont get it
/me *shrug*
/me goes back to cuddling vim

i tried to add a single smart button to the athenda skin, so as to look into your quicklaunch menu problem. however, i simply CANNOT make this smartbutton work.

skinstudion claims to have added it, and there is a load of stuff in the uis file, and WB 3.10 lets me configure the single button, but i cannot see it, and cannot make it do anything.

do you have some working UIS code that produces a working quicklaunch button i can play with? there are still a couple of lines of attack i want to try on this.

on the question of this animation, do you mean you want to overlay the animation on only bits of the window border?

say, overlay the animation on the top border, and top 50% of each side border only?

if that is what you want, then one idea would simply be to have 3 sets of animation frames.

one set is the top border (title bar), and is animated along its full length.

then the other two sets are only animated for the top 50%, so the botton half of the side border frames are always the same. this would require streatching the animated frames for the sides though, since if you were to tile them then you would get alternating "changing" sections with animation frames that are always the same.

all the animated skins i am familiar with animate entire edges of windows at a time, with the exception of the aquarium skin, where only a small part of the title bar appears to have been animated. this implies that you can "attach" the animation effect to only part of a window border.

i will have a look at the files in the aquarium skin in a little while and see what it looks like it is doing.

Here is what I have in my uis which brings all the buttons up (downloaded the updates last night and thought perhaps that fixed the problem, but checked them out this morning and still the same old story, everything launches me into Object Edit):

SmartButton0]
Enabled=1
Name0=SmartButton 1
Dll0=url.wbp
Author0=0
WIDTH0=24

[Smartbutton.url]
Image=GoldEagle\Button2.bmp



[SmartButton.quickl]
Image=GoldEagle\Button1.bmp

[SmartButton.rollup]
Image=GoldEagle\Button1.bmp

[SmartButton1]
Author0=0
Name0=SmartButton 1
Enabled=1
Dll0=quickl.wbp
WIDTH0=24

[SmartButton2]
Author0=0
Name0=SmartButton 2
Enabled=1
Dll0=aot.wbp
WIDTH0=24

[SmartButton3]
Author0=0
Name0=SmartButton 3
Enabled=1
Dll0=rollup.wbp
WIDTH0=24

[SmartButton.aot]
Image=GoldEagle\Button1.bmp

[BUTTON19]
Align=3
XCoord=24
YCoord=72
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
DllName=smart.dll
Visibility=0
SmartButtonNumber=3
ButtonImage=GoldEagle\Button2.bmp

[SmartButton.generic]
Image=GoldEagle\Button1.bmp

[BUTTON20]
Align=2
XCoord=-1
YCoord=54
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
Visibility=0
SmartButtonNumber=2
ButtonImage=GoldEagle\Button2.bmp
DllName=smart.dll

[BUTTON21]
Align=1
XCoord=24
YCoord=27
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
DllName=smart.dll
Visibility=0
SmartButtonNumber=1
ButtonImage=GoldEagle\Button2.bmp

[Button6]
Align=1
XCoord=23
YCoord=50
ALpha=254
Width=24
Height=24
Action=-3
Visibility=0
DllName=smart.dll
ButtonImage=GoldEagle\Button2.bmp
SmartButtonNumber=0

Now for the animation - yes I do want to overlay the animation, however I need to tile the top, bottom and sides. Been toying with the idea of changing the frame shape (which is another thing I haven't attempted yet) to see what I can come up with. Am going to try that this morning. Haven't had a chance to settle into going full strength with working on this one - the last couple of days have been a little topsy turvy around here. Hope to have a little more time with it today.