> Thanks. That's a good start. I was thinking there was more, based on the > section "skins only rarely needed" in the "Creating skins" topic in the help. > In particular, I was thinking about how I'd generate something like I see > described in the "bar/subbar model" of the skin design section. > > The hints about using png backgrounds with transparency made me wonder what > was possible...
The bar/subbar approach can be used with any bar. Search for it in help and look at supplied sample pcf's referenced by help. It was motivated by trying to duplicate the approach where you have a row of "file tabs" which select the buttons to appear. You can get the functionality easily if you don't care about look and feel, but you need to do a png for the bar itself if you want something that looks like file tabs (and you would need to change it if you changed the number of tabs). If you are interested in transparency, just experiment with changing that setting. If you want to play around with png's, again just experiment with them using bar background and pixel blend settings. But that can be quite time consuming.
