Cry for help - WB XP and Skinstudio

uh-oh better call Jafo!

hiya c242

sorry, not got art work done to start messing with first WB skin ever so no help here, but I'll watch and learn for the possibility of it happening to me or another down the road

I'm not sure, but this sounds like a similar problem to one I had. Make sure all the elements of your taskbar (ie. the buttons, the tray, quicklaunch, start button, taskbar etc.) are the same image format. By this I mean all bitmaps or all .tga's. I don't think it works if you mix the two formats. At least that's what I was told.
Another thing that I noticed was that many skin authors only use one image for the taskbar image, even though it says it should be two images. (like the titlebar).
Try it both ways and see what happens.
I hope this helps.

Thanks I will give it another try. Is the taskbar tiled vertically ?

That happened to me with one of the alpha versions but was fixed. Perhaps that could be a clue

Thanks all, I have the solution : I didn't apply a graphic for the tray-arrow yet.
Small cause, big trouble...

The horizontal task bar should be two images next to each other. One for the taskbar when on top and one for when on bottom. Likewise for the vert taskbar. Two images tiled vertically. One for left and one for right. Just for info.