Industech Dock And Problem

Hey guys, I am working on porting Matthew Bice's awesome dock skin Industech...it is for the icons of the same name on XIcons.com. I have a couple versions right now but am having trouble with one thing. I am trying to make seperate images for the left and right ends to the dock...but it looks bad for some reason...Any help? Here are the images.

Here is the first one, its kind of plain...

The next one has black stripes along the bottom stripe...

And here is the final one. It has all of the Industech icons in there, I just need to get the sides done. Any help will really be appreciated. Let me know what you think of these also.

Thanks,

Fletch

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I had the same problem with left and right backrounds for my lawn theme, and adjusting the ini file but stretched that part of the png file, not sure if possible yet, and because the foreground is not tiled but a wide png file that also couldn't be done... though if i solve background problem will let you know..

(Just checking we mean same thing, a left edge, tiled center and right edge to finish dock theme..)

Plus cool theme.....

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Found your fix. "a left edge, tiled center and right edge to finish dock theme"

I used a foreground and background that were both 384 pixels (3 x 128 pixels pngs). You have to open up the background.ini file for your dock theme and adjust the left and right widths. These values define what area tiles and what area doesn't for the background and foreground. I copied the info directly from my test ini file. I also added comment for this post.

Image = background.png

LeftWidth = 128 'do not tile the left 128 pixels of the background

TopHeight = 1

RightWidth = 128 'do not tile the right 128 pixels

BottomHeight = 0

TileCenter = 1 'tile the center or remaining 128 pixels

[Foreground]

Image = foreground.png

LeftWidth = 128 'do not tile the left 128 pixels of the foreground

TopHeight = 7 'push the foreground down the specified number of pixels

RightWidth = 128 'do not tile the right 128 pixels of the foreground

BottomHeight = 0

TileCenter = 1 'tile the remaining foreground area

This can be used with any size images. I have tried with varying widths and all worked well. I'm looking forward to that dock conversion fletch.

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