Can I get some testers on a WB oddity?

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Brainiac and I have run across a strange thing in my latest WB skin Romulus. On some systems, there is an alignment problem on the StartPanel. On some there is not. We suspect it may have to do with WindowBlinds version.
Can I get some volunteers to download these 2 skins and see if you get the mis-alignment on either and let me know which has the mis-alignment and what version of WB you are using.
I would appreciate any help or feedback.

#1 test skin
http://www.geocities.com/pictoratus/Places150.zip

#2 test skin
http://www.geocities.com/pictoratus/Places152.zip


Since it is Geocities, you may have to right click and 'Save Target as ...' to download these.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pictoratus
Your links are no good. They lead to a geocities 404 page However I will dl romulus from the library and test it.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok I have Romulus applied now. Not knowing what mis-allignment you are referring to, I'll tell you the only strange thing I see is the start panel program list menu is set too far to the right away from the left margin. Content margin set too far over? However it is still legible and functional. Btw, very nice skin! Love the deep purple color. Im running WB 4.10 on Win XP
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
crissy, did you try to right click on the links and click on 'Save Target as..'?

Oh, and thanks for the nice comment!
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This may be a 4.1 bug.I measured the more programs graphic by making it solid black and opened a ss in PS.It is exactly 30 pix on XP with WB4.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pictoratus
yes. I tried both ways. Downloading it directly and choosing "save target as" on right click. Same results both ways.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pictoratus
WOW! Am I stupid! I thought you meant to right click on the web page that the link brings me to. . Duh! You meant right click on the links you provided. Please excuse the stupidity. (brainiac, no comment from you ) Well. ok I did it right this time and here are the results: places 152 has a miss-allignment of the graphic dividing the prog list and all progs. It appears to be "cracked". Places 150 seems alligned properly. However both files have the prog list conents too far to the right as I explained above. Did you mean it to be like this?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
one more thing. Your shutdown dialog flag is completely un-skinned. It's magic pink.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
crissy, do you mean it is showing as magic pink when you go to shut down?
I did make it all magic pink except for a small sliver at the bottom left, but it shouldn't show since the only 'colored' (as in not magic pink) part is in the middle portion.

Thanks for checking the links.

Michael, I think you're right. It's beginning to look like 4.1 is doing something different than earlier versions.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, on the prog list. Are contents centered? Look at my shot on the page for Romulus to see what I mean. The contents are to the right some but should only be enough to the right to center them in the Prog list pane.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes the prog list contents are all centered just like in your screenshot( i see now that's how you intended it to be), but in my opinion the contents are too far away from the left margin. And yes, the shutdown flag is completly pink, as is the flag on logoff and wait screen.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
crissy ...it never entered my mind...
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wish we could get some more help here..
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, I hoped more skinners would get involved.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure why the flag is all pink. Have you opened it in SkinStudio or PS to see if it has the bottom left slice colored?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes pictoratus , I have opened it up in skin studio. The shutdown flag is pink with a bluish strip on the bottom left portion. I have found from experience that magic pink does not make the flag transparent, and that it's simpler to reduce the flag to 1x1 (pixels) so its virtually invisible. Then you can add whatever graphic or effect you want to the right upper corner of the shutdown/logoff/wait dialog
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, I'll try that out. I'm not sure why I'm not getting the pink on mine. Sometimes skins act so different on different systems and it's so hard to figure why it does that.

I really appreciate you helping me out on this.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll download it now.............. get back to you in a while. 



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Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i found your problem, in p150 the right side panel is 190 x 150 and in p152 it is 190 x 152, off by two pixels, so i imported the one from 150 to 152 and evrery thing works fine now on my system!!
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
cool colors and design too!!
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#19 by Bones2112 - 9/4/2003 9:31:15 PM
i found your problem, in p150 the right side panel is 190 x 150 and in p152 it is 190 x 152, off by two pixels, so i imported the one from 150 to 152 and evrery thing works fine now on my system!!

........ and there ya go! Same here............



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Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Problem is 152 works perfect on some systems and 150 works on others.We are trying to find out WHY.I have WB4 and 152 is perfect.Pictoratus hasWB4.1 and 150 works for him.We cant upload 2 versions of everything!
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We need to know what version of WB you have and I suppose XP.I have XP pro and WB4.152 works on mine.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Plus you cant fix this with margins.We tried.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
4.10 (107) wb, xp home,and i adjusted margins for the right panel i imported to 0,38,0,153 and on the left panel i changed to 0,9,8,6 going down in that order, and i am running 1024 x 768 and it works for me!!
Try these settings please.