Damn Orange Plugin! Why?

[Guest w411y]

Im getting a wierd problem with the Orange plugin as Ill show in the pics below....

Normally ...

But when I scroll onto the TCPMP link this happens...

Heres the XML im using to create the link ...

 <!-- row1 col3: TCPMP -->    

    	

    	<shortcut width="240" height="79">

    <plugin clsid="{A2536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D077}" name="TCPMP" height="79">

    <background>

    <format state="selected" padding-left="0" bgtext="transparent" bgimage="\Storage\Application Data\Home\Greenimate\TCPMP.jpg"/>

    <format state="unselected" bgtext="transparent"/>

    </background>

    <shortcut width="240" action="\Storage Card\Program Files\TCPMP\player.exe">

    	<label font-size="14" valign="top" x="20" y="0" w="240" >

    	<format state="selected" bgcolor="transparent"/>

    	<format state="unselected" bgcolor="transparent" fgcolor="#A5B14C"/>

    	<text>TCPMP</text></label>

    </shortcut>

    </plugin>

  	</shortcut>

Any ideas where Im going wrong? I want to complete this screen before moving on but Im so eager to create my new screen and I just want to finish this and get it out of the way!

Any suggestions?

Edited December 20, 2005 by w411y

[Guest Jamma14]

Personally, I'd include the text in the bgimage, that way you can create your own style and if you keep ahold of the .psd, it won't be that hard to change in the future.

Not sure what's wrong with your label as I don't tend to use them, but if you change fgcolor="" to transparent then you won't get the colour behind the text. I'm assuming that's your problem??

Ahh actually is it the few pixels that become transparent in the tcpmp icon?

I'd use photoshop to find out their colour, and then search in notepad etc. for the hex value (it may be a transparent value in your row1 bit, or a COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT value or something that it defaults as transparent).

I think that's probably what you mean?? :)

James

[Guest w411y]

I was on bout the wierd orange tint on the whole plugin and the wierd label :S I didnt use icons for it just background images

[Guest Jamma14]

I was on bout the wierd orange tint on the whole plugin and the wierd label :S I didnt use icons for it just background images

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O yeah, didn't notice that! :roll:

Well, what happens if you change fgcolor="" in the label tag to "transparent", does that help at all?

[Guest w411y]

I completely deleted the label tag and the orange tint is still there!

[Guest Jamma14]

Search your code for "#D6DF9C"??

That's the colour of the bg to the TCPMP label???

Sorry don't know what else to suggest really!

[Guest w411y]

Not there

I do have "#D4Dc98" ?

[Guest Jamma14]

No ideas then! Sorry! Wanna post up the whole code or mail it to me or something so I can have a fiddle??

[Guest w411y]

Thanks fella appreciate this! Hope you have more luck than I do!

w411y___Greenimate.rar

[Guest Jamma14]

Okay, I couldn't see what was wrong so I decided to use icons to get around the problem by converting your TCPMP background into an icon resource.

The attatched is the result.

You can see that all the other background images (apart from the TCPMP .ico) also have a slight orange tinge and are out of line.

If you are going to use the orange plugin, it really is best to use icons as it handles them correctly, whereas using .jpgs and .bmps in format=selected bgimages doesn't seem to work right.

I couldn't get my Mac dock working with bgimages so I went to icon resource files. The one time I did use a bgimage with the orange plug, a few pixels in the image got "transparented" for want of a better word. (Look at the Mac (c550) animated gif and at the sms popup bit to see what I mean).

For my XP theme, I'm using only icons. You can get a free photoshop plugin to create .icos and thats what I use. Another benefit to them is it protects your graphics - most people won't know how to get them out of an image resource file.

Only way I think you'll be able to finish this how you want it is change them all to using icons and change the code so it lines up. Sorry for the bad news. :)

GRAR.RAR

[Guest w411y]

Thanks James really appreciate that.

Guess I'll have to look into using icons then. Just made a cab installer so my homescreens are now going to feature custom system screens ;)

My first is pretty much finished so Ill probably pass it on to the downloads section tonight :D

Cheers again, be prepared for me to run to you seeking icon help :)