Grentz

I have just started skining and i am curious how you change the look of the bottom bar. I use Icbar for the top bar and i know how to make skins for the main area of the screen but i cant figure out..

-how to change the colors of the bars using MS Theme generator
-How to make the bar have a totally different look (like Icbar but for the bottom bar)

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deftech

If you have one of the more recent versions of Icbar, it has an option for "Menu Bar". This is the bottom bar. Just make an image (or use a premade one) that is close to the size of the bottom bar, and apply it to the Menu Bar setting in Icbar.

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Grentz

cool thanks, I am not that good in the skinning department of ppcs

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Grentz

update: got it working, just needed the new icbar. Just used the blue background image(xp bar style) and it looks great

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Grentz

ok another Q, how do you make a full screen theme. I have icbar and i figured out how to use the backgrounds for the bars but how do you take your picture and make that background to put on the bar. which is really the ends of the picture.

Like I said earlier, I am just learning this skinning thing

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aarcam

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Originally posted by grentz ok another Q, how do you make a full screen theme. I have icbar and i figured out how to use the backgrounds for the bars but how do you take your picture and make that background to put on the bar. which is really the ends of the picture. Like I said earlier, I am just learning this skinning thing

If you are running ICBAR it should be pretty easy.
1. Find the image you want to use and format it to be 240 pixels wide by 320 pixels high. Almost any graphics program can do this.
2. Next you need to break the image up into 3 pieces. The top bar is 26 pixels high by 240 wide, as is the bottom. The middle will then be 268 pixels high and 240 wide. It is probably best to take your 240x320 image and then save out these three as separate files.
3. Use MS theme generator and create a theme with your 268x240 image and desired font colors.
4. Put the files on your Ax.
5. Assign the top and bottom with icbar and load your new theme.
6. Enjoy.

That should do it, I thin I have covered everything, although I may have missed something. Feel free to correct anything I missed out.


There is some good info here in a brighthand thread. It is a little long but at some point they describe about everyhting. The very end of this thread (Well, right now anyway) has some good tips and a template.
look here

Good luck!!

Grentz

Do you know any free programs that can resize an image in pixels? MS Picture it dosent have that feature

thanks for the help, as soon as i get a program that can resize in pixels i should be all set

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aarcam

ooops. UR right. I have photoshop at work so I rarely use paint. As for free software I dont really know. I think you could do it in paint, with the template from the link above, but it may not be an exact science, which kind of defeats the point when you are counting pixels.

Anyone have any good advice for grentz?

The other thing is if you have an image that you want made into a full screen theme. I could make the 3 files pretty quick. Shoot me a pm if you are interested.

Where in the midwest are you? I grew up in Kansas.

Jexxster

Irfanview

One of the greatest utilities for viewing and resizing pictures. And it is 100% free.

I use this program to make all my themes, including full screen ones.

Grentz

Thanks for the link, i am going to try it out soon.

So photoshop seems to work the best just its not free

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