Aqua-Soft ForumsHi. I want to modify a WB4 theme to have a per-pixel titlebar. I saved the file i want to use as a .tga and got SkinStudio, but don't know anything else. By the way, all I want to do is modify the titlebar to be per-pixel, not the borders (because it's borderless fuschia). The rest of the theme is okay too.
Creating per-pixel borders in WB5
You can use png format and skin studio will convert it to tga.
What I do is,
1 With skin studio, Use "Active Translucent Window," select the WindowTop image and edit it in fireworks/photoshop.
2 After editing the WindowTop (now png) adding the smooth corners, save it somewhere
3 In skinstudio, select WindowTop and its menu will show an option "Import from file"... look up the png file you did in photoshop.
4 Replace the current with the new image and it will be converted into tga.
5 Select "Transulency IS being used," and "Transparent"
I hope you can do it
Hmm...i'm kinda confused. Where's Active Translucent Windows? Mind going into deeper detail please? 
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Hehe, nevermind found it. The skin didn't turn out too well though, i don't even see any close, min, max buttons. help please 
Where is the "Active Translucent Windows", I would like to know because I am new to skinstudio,,,
Thanks in advance
It's in the drop-down box above the preview.
Ok first off hello all. I'm new to this forum, but I've been skinning for at least a little while...lol.
I have just recently been tinkering with the per pixels in wb 5.0, and have afew answers to some questions. I dunno if you've figured it out yet as this thread seems abit old but to answer your question about the buttons. There apparently are a whole set of alpha buttons wherin unlike the other ones don't have images associated with them. When you look in the list in the explorer view of skinstudio you will notice there are alternate close, max, min, and restore buttons. those all have to be added manually. As far as viewing them in the skin on the build side they are wedged way over set to 0,0 offset. If you want to see them all you have to do is change the button offset to 30,0 and they will be visible. You'll have to do this for each individual button. I suggest setting the about 10 pixels apart from each other for visibility so you can at least see them enough to change them, and their positions at will. I set mine accordingly, *close btn, 30,6* *max btn, 50,6* and Min btn at 70,6. The restore should be placed directly behind the max btn unless you're doing something abit different. I also noticed that each and every piece of the exterior borders need to be done as well, which makes it far more difficult to skin as far as content, but makes for a really nice titlebar. Currently I'm working on a DragonballZ skin that has a 50% transparency in the glass for the titlebar. It should be quite interesting to experience for me.....lol. I don't do well with experimentation normally, but this seems worth it. I hope your skinning will be abit easier, and I hope ya haven't brainfried yet...lol. Take care, and happy skinning!
Thanks. i'll tinker with it a little. I'm not at all a system skinner, just an application skinner.