BootSkin progress bar properties

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Hi there!

 

Apologies if this is on a faq or something, but I couldn't find it so here's the post:

 

Can I ask about the progress bar in a little more detail? On all the bootskins I download and the one I'm trying to create myself I can see the bar and the 'window' it floats in perfectly. What it doesn't do is smoothly slide onto the bar and into view from one end and slide off out of sight the other end of the bar. Messing with the coords and progress bar length just makes it underrun and overrun the window.

Basically, can it look identical to the 'real' bootscreen? Or am I missing something here?

 

Thank in advance!

 

Matt

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You're talking about BootskinXP, right?  My best answer for this is to download Bootskin Buddy http://hypknotic.deviantart.com/art/BootSkin-Buddy-30733603


It takes pretty much all of the guess work out of creating bootskins.  But it feels like cheating some where deep inside me.  }:)

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

sorry,no...it wont render the progress bar exactly likw XP.:(O

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting k10w3, reply 1
You're talking about BootskinXP, right?  My best answer for this is to download Bootskin Buddy http://hypknotic.deviantart.com/art/BootSkin-Buddy-30733603


It takes pretty much all of the guess work out of creating bootskins.  But it feels like cheating some where deep inside me. 
RabidRobot was a Godsend when he wrote that.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 if the progress bar has the height - 9 pixels, then in reality (not preview), immediately followed by moves 9X8 pixel rectangle with background color (which is the first in the palette (the palette of colors for the progress bar and background image must be the same)...

Length of run progress bar is calculated as the distance from the extreme left point to the extreme right (if with the width of the progress bar at 22 pixels)

-That in fact, almost everything. ..