Help... Start Menu Problem Skin Studio 6

ah, you need to turn of the startmenu shadow which can be found in the userpane secion in *extra settings*

hope this helps......

jekylll: Thanks for your suggestion. However, I have disabled the default OS shadow and this is still happening to me. Any other ideas?

In SKS 6, go to the start menu section > top Part > extra settings > Hide shadow on Start Menu. You need to enable it...it is disabled by default.

jazzymjr: Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I went into the "Top Part," then to "Extra Settings," and then "Hide shadow on startmenu" and set that checkbox to enabled. Even with this enabled, I am still seeing this ugly unwanted border.

I am running XP and started this skin using the latest version of Skin Studio 6.

The only other thing I can think of is to open the skin in SKS 5, and disable the shadow from there. Make sure you save the change before you open the blind again in SKS 6.

maybe add ´HideShadows=1´ in the code editor? Never tried that in the start panel...

vogliadicane: Thanks for your suggestion. I will try it later tonight and see what happens.

perhaps then.....check your image..maybe there is some lines you have not rubbed out on yr png and they are showing? .....(Just a long shot i know)

Check yr margins too just in case......... I really cant think of anything else......

jekylll: Yeah, I thought about that as well. I will go back and check my pngs to make sure there are not "stray" pixels that are creating that shadow. Thanks again for your tips.

I haven't verified this but Cavan told me that setting in SKS6 did nothing ... yet.

Try setting it in SKS5 ... I know that works; it's how I've done it.

pictoratus: Thanks for the info and for the suggestions. I will try them out as well. Much appreciated.

jazzymjr: Thank you for the helpful suggestion. Very much appreciated!

I had the same problem in SKS6. I had to enable it in SKS6, then open it in SKS5, and disable it there. It will stay put then, even after you reopen it in SKS6.

Xiandi: Thank you for sharing your experience with this. I am glad to know that I am not the only one experiencing this. I will try your suggestion and see it it works. Thanks again!

Still just eye candy. (:(


alphabyte; complete your skin in SKS6, once done and happy then open in SKS5, from tree menu select Start Panel, then set Hide shadow to enabled and save.

Cavan1: Thank you for the info. I really appreciate all the tips and suggestions. Very much appreciated!

No problem.

One more tip, when doing multiple quotes, do like so, of course without the spaces in tags.

[ quote ]I haven't verified this but Cavan told me that setting in SKS6 did nothing ... yet. [ quote ]Still just eye candy.[ /quote ]
[ quote ]alphabyte; complete your skin in SKS6, once done and happy then open in SKS5, from tree menu select Start Panel, then set Hide shadow to enabled and save.[ /quote ][ /quote ]

Hi everyone,

Let me first thank everyone who has stopped by to help me and give me suggestions. I appreciate each and every one of your tips, ideas and bits of information.

I have tried opening my skin in SKS5, hiding the shadows there, and then re-opening it in SKS6. Unfortunately, this did not work for me. I made the appropriate change in SKS5 (I set HideShadows=1), saved and applied the WB. Much to my agony, the black border still persists.

I have checked the pixels around my borders and there are no stray pixels outside of the frame and drop shadow.

Also, I tried to manually add "HideShadows=1" to the Top Part of the Start Panel section, but that did not work either.

I guess I will continue to work on the other parts of my WB and hopefully a resolution to my problem will arise.

Cavan1: Thanks for the quote tip as well.

Thank you again to everyone. Your help is much appreciated!

Can't in SKS6 as there is no Start Panel section. It looks like they plan on it being part of code for each start menu part but is not complete yet. If you check code in SKS5 HideShadows is the only code in Start Panel section and does not show in any of the other parts code section. As of now can only see code for each part/section at a time, can't open complete skin code as can in SKS5.

First open in SKS5 and check that hide is still enabled, apply another skin then go back to yours, or reapply your skin two or three times, this is one of those settings that does not always change after just one apply. Not sure why just always seems to need a kick in the butt to take.

Cavan1: I checked to make sure that HideShadows=1 in SKS5. I applied some other skins (Luster, RogueProtonG, Leo, etc...) and then applied my skin with the black border several times to no avail, as the default OS shadow remains. Sigh... Thanks again for all your time, effort and help!

alphabyte; go to my site WWW Link, click email and send me the skin and I will see if I can get it working. Can't promise to get to it tonight but tomorrow I work only half a day.

Strange...I cant get them TO show...not at all.Only difference is,I never once opened my skin with SKS6. :p 

Little experiment...open your skin with SKS5,save it as some other name(like you were going to make a new skin off of it),and apply that one and see if they are gone. :NOTSURE: 

Cavan1: Thank you for your generous offer. How do I send you an attachment through the Wincustomize email system? Thanks again!

IR: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it (loaded my broken WB into SKS5, checked to make sure HideShadows=1, and saved it as another file name), but unfortunately, the default OS shadow was still there.

Thank you for offering your suggestion. Much appreciated!