Status bar ate Outlook's whole window

but left everything else alone

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Okay, I've got a weird one. I've been tweaking the skin I'm working on, and something went wrong in the status bar department. In Outlook 2003 you have view status bar as a toggle option. After recovering from a crash, every time I clicked on vew status bar, it would turn the color of my status bar on the whole screen. I'm sure that it is my skin, because when I load other skins, it works just fine.

I've tried recreating the graphics from start, using the import function to load the graphic, and even cut and pasted the status bar section of code of a skin that worked fine (as well as using that skin's graphics for a test). Any ideas gang?
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have this one solved, and wanted to put the solution here, so others may benefit from it.

I exlcuded Outlook from being skinned, and the problem was still there. The natural conclusion would be... then Windowblinds has nothing to do with it. Turned out that wasn't true. After many hours of Googling, it turns out the answer was in the Wincustomize forums at:
https://forums.stardock.com/index.aspx?ForumID=157&AID=87627#764612

Here is the core answer:
"Miscellaneous"->"Fonts for classic widgets" and defined as subsections to the section, make sure you specify the font sizes in negative values. Should you fail to do this, all kind of bad things may happen. Firefox will look bad. Outlook 2003 will most probably have problems and applications are liable to have some of their fonts blown out of the proportion.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top


so...my uneducated guess would be you used positives numbers which caused the status bar t 'grow' insanely out of proportion?


dang...i gotta right this down for when i decide to try a skin.

thanks.
Siege of Centauri