Skins...some questions.

[john_warner at rmic.com]

Are the borders going to be set to a certain dimension or will there
be future support for borders wider than the 3 pixel ones currently
available? When I create a border with a larger width, the screen
does not draw correctly, usually dropping the bottom and left side
borders.

I'm also having a problem with buttons, I've successfully created
buttons for view, sort, filter; but when I try and create buttons for
the defbtnup and deck_up, I'm getting strange results. The buttons
don't show up and in their place is the filter button, and when
clicked it changes to the ! diamond button and then ceases to
function via mouse clicks, but still retains functionality through
the tab/enter keys.

Help?!

Thanks


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[rob]

I don't believe the borders are fixed in width. They were at one point, but
I'm 99% sure that was changed before we added skin support. If the border
width is an issue, send us the skin and we'll investigate it on our end.

I can't think of an good reason why you're getting the strange behavior
with buttons, aside from masks. Masks are critical with buttons. One easy
way to mess things up is to have a mask that is a color bitmap. All masks
MUST be monochrome bitmaps (black/white). If you have a color bitmap for a
mask, everything can get royally messed up.

Jim is *THE* expert on skins, since he's already released one and is
developing a few others as well. Yes, he's going to be a better source of
suggestions that Lone Wolf staff. However, if you run into problems that
Jim can't answer, let us know and we'll take a look under the debugger.

Thanks, Rob

At 02:17 PM 8/12/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Are the borders going to be set to a certain dimension or will there
>be future support for borders wider than the 3 pixel ones currently
>available? When I create a border with a larger width, the screen
>does not draw correctly, usually dropping the bottom and left side
>borders.
>
>I'm also having a problem with buttons, I've successfully created
>buttons for view, sort, filter; but when I try and create buttons for
>the defbtnup and deck_up, I'm getting strange results. The buttons
>don't show up and in their place is the filter button, and when
>clicked it changes to the ! diamond button and then ceases to
>function via mouse clicks, but still retains functionality through
>the tab/enter keys.
>
>Help?!
>
>Thanks


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Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com


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