The ChromeZone's Skinning Tutorial Pt. 2 - Skinning the MenubarWednesday May 31st, 2000We now have Part 2 of our skinning tutorial online. In it, we tackle the first part of the project - skinning the menubar. We deal with issues such as style inheritance, system colors and fonts, and how to make sure a component skin plays well with other skins. Can Mozilla have this? ;-) http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/screenshots.html why hasn't the build bar been updated? Wow, that's kinda annoying. Personally, I'd lose my mind pretty quick using that desktop. We have, take a look at bug 3013 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3013 (status verified fixed). Only works within Mozilla though, so you can't create the effect shown. What your are showing is X Server using translucency across the desktop. If you mean by your question whether native mozilla windows can do alpha channels, the answer is no on most platforms i know of. However you can use translucency within a Mozilla window by say using a PNG image for control. Also there is the mozilla css attribute opacity, but I had varying success with it working properly. Overall there is of course a CPU cost associated with using alpha channels, so it will work best across machines and platforms if used sparingly. Futhermore the target machine for such a skin must support 16-bit color at least to look good. They rock! Thanks for the awesome tutorial, I'll have to keep digging to get a skin just like I want it, but this tutorial clears up a lot of things. Back up the modern skin into a directory other than chrome, mozilla wouldn't start for me when I had a `modern' and a `copy of modern' in the skins directory. Is anyone planning to review M16 when it is released? |