RJShortcut question

[Guest simon211175]

Hey guys,

creating another homescreen, and I wanted to have an unselected and a selected image for the shortcut bar - with the unselected bar showing no icons (ie using the {hide="yes"} setting).

Stupid thing doesn't work though, and I could use some help. My code is currently as follows:

<!-- RJShortcut -->

    <plugin clsid="{F3750050-8E30-4c61-A864-4301F5D7C065}" height="89">

  <background b-border-width="0">

 	 <format state="unselected" y="70" x="0" bgimage="\Storage\Application Data\Home\SinCitySH\RJSunselected.jpg" />

 	 <format state="selected" y="70" x="0" bgimage="\Storage\Application Data\Home\SinCitySH\RJSimage.jpg" />

  </background>

  <format state="unselected" padding-left="32" padding-top="70" padding-bottom="0" >

 	 <shortcutbar hide="yes"/>

  </format>

  <format state="selected" padding-left="32" padding-top="70" padding-bottom="0" >

 	 <shortcutbar icon-spacing="2" icon-size="small">

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut1.lnk"/>

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut2.lnk"/>

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut3.lnk"/>

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut4.lnk"/>

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut5.lnk"/>

    <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut6.lnk"/>

 	 </shortcutbar>

  </format>

    </plugin>

[Guest simon211175]

Should I take it from the lack of response that I'm attempting something impossible?

[Guest drblow]

I dunno about hiding the icons, never tried that! But here's a snipit of code from my Panther theme, that uses a background image for the selected state. I assume if you add an unselected state to the background tag, it will also accept a background image. Let me know if it doesn't work.

 <!-- RJShortcut -->

  <plugin clsid="{F3750050-8E30-4c61-A864-4301F5D7C065}" height="16">

  <!-- hiding shortcut icons by placing 217 in the x -->	

  <background>

 	 <format state="selected" valign="top" halign="right" bgcolor="transparent" bgimage="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Panther\panthershort.gif"/>

  </background>

  <shortcutbar icon-spacing="0" icon-size="small" x="220" y="0" >

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/CityTime Alarms.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Settings.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Accessories/Orneta Notepad.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Accessories/File Manager.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/SP Task Mgr EN.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Call History.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Media/WMPlayer.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Accessories/Calculator.lnk"/>

  <shortcut target="/Storage/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/quickreset.exe"/>

  </shortcutbar>

  <appname valign="top" y="1" x="70" w="75" font-size="12" font-weight="bold" fgcolor="#888888"> 

  <format state="selected" font-weight="bold" fgcolor="#000000"/> 

  </appname>

  </plugin>

[Guest simon211175]

thanks DrBlow - I was actually looking at that theme just before you posted the code ;)

I've managed to work it out (although for a different theme than originally designing) - using the following code. I'm guessing though this might only work if the shortcut bar is at the bottom, because I set the unselected format to start showing the icons below the specified height of the plugin:

<plugin clsid="{F3750050-8E30-4c61-A864-4301F5D7C065}" height="115">

 	 <background>

 	 <format state="selected" valign="top" halign="right" bgimage="\Storage\Application Data\Home\scratchSH\rjss.gif"/>

  </background>

  <format state="selected" padding-left="21" padding-top="93" padding-bottom="0" />

  <format state="unselected" padding-left="21" padding-top="115" />

  <shortcutbar icon-spacing="8" icon-size="small">

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut1.lnk"/>

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut2.lnk"/>

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut3.lnk"/>

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut4.lnk"/>

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut5.lnk"/>

 	 <shortcut target="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Shortcuts\Shortcut6.lnk"/>

  </shortcutbar>

    </plugin>

[Guest simon211175]

and here's the result if anyone's interested: