Please help! Editing Taskbar

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Hi! I'm very new to skinning...maybe someone can help.
I try to change the font and font-color for elements within my taskbar with SkinStudio. I hope you know what I mean. Every running program is shown in the taskbar (for example explorer, internet explorer and so on).
I use SkinStudio 4 and if I click XP Taskbar -> Taskbar Button horizontal I can chage the image used as background. All mthis works but if I choose another font or color (normal, pressed...) I can see the changes in the SkinStudio Preview but if I apply my changes it doesn't work.

Hope someone can help me.

THX Vandura
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are you SAVING the changes you make before you apply them? Just a thought.....
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
On the Skinstudio Windowblind toolbar button select 'Set this skin as current' and click 'Yes' when it asks to save the skin.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for te fast answers, but it doen't help. It's not a problem of saving or applying the skin.
Maybe I need to change the font and font-color not only at XP Taskbar-> Taskbar Button horizontal -> font and -> color but somewhere else??

Hope someone gets another idea?!?!

THX Vandura
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Vandura...I had a similar issue, for some reason SkinStudio was showing the changes in the section pane but when I looked at the code it wasn't applied.

Highlight the graphic you are referring to and then click on the Code button to make sure everything is in good order there

Hope that helps
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Everythings seems to be right. Maybe I'm too stupid. Could someone maybe describe exactly how to change the text-color?
For example the nVidia_XP skin:

- I open it in SkinStudio 4
- In the explorer-tree I select 'XP Desktop - Taskbar - Taskbar Button - Taskbar Button horizonta'
- In the right window (section) I change the setting for colours (Colour-Normal...Color-Grouped) from Colour0 (black) to Colour4 (white) for every attribute (normal, pressed, disabled, focus...)
- Save changes
- Apply skin

Nothing happens.

But if I change colour0 (black) maybe to red then the changes applies. But then all texst are red. Taskbar fontcolor is red, startpanel fontcolor, programmlist fontcolour and so on.

But I only want to change the textcolour of opened programms in the taskbar.

Could someone help again??

THX Vandura
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
vandura...Try adding a new color...say Red for example in the color presets under Miscellaneous>Presets>ColorPresets.

Then apply that specific color# to your taskbuttons or whatever else.