"brucexs" wrote: > You are are right. Meant to say there are not that many options to play > with. If you want dramatic look and feel, I guess working on the png > background is where the real effort is?
Yes. There aren't that many options to play with in the GUI but using skin definitions, helps a lot. PowerPro isn't as flexible in the skinning area as I'd like but with patience(you said it right, "time consuming") we can achieve some things that at first seemed not possible. The real effort is indeed managing those png backgrounds, specifically when using transparency. Combining those in a unified look can be quite tricky. For instance, I've found that if we use a png marker with transparency, window contents will be drawn into it when a window reaches the marker. Workaround solution: Eliminate that marker in the bar and make another bar with only a marker png locked to the other bar itself. Works! :) http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6339/marker.png If you look closely at the screenshot, you'll see the marker underneath the expanded bar, it isn't the same as the original but it also doesn't ruin the overall look. The pop-up menu(not finished) with active windows, was hard to figure out a way to make it look like that but it's done. :)
