Drive Space Messes up Skins due to invisible Boarder.

[spalek83]

I am trying to set up a skin for Drive Space, yet it is always off center with all other plugins. For some reason it automatically places a invisible boarder of 2 pixels or more around the plug in, on top, the left and right sides and most likely bottom. With skins for netmonitor or systemmonitor.

Looking at the skins that were made in the past, it seems this bug of an invisible boarder on Drive Space didn't exist until the latest revision, as screenshots of people using a Drive SPace skin along with an identical netmon or sysmon skin don't show this bug.

For example, install this skins on all three plugins as an example (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://stelsy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2f11ek">http://stelsy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2f11ek</a><!-- m -->), you will see drive space is slightly lower then the rest, and has a boarder around it making the seamless transition between plugins broken (as there is too much as a gap).

I tried editing the background image, stating a x and y value for the background in the .ini, nothing works. Please help

Also, I can't seem to get custom fonts to work at all with drive space. All the custom skins seem to show the default font, not the one chosen in the ini.

[Yuri Kobets]

Quote:For example, install this skins on all three plugins as an example (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://stelsy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2f11ek">http://stelsy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2f11ek</a><!-- m -->), you will see drive space is slightly lower then the rest, and has a boarder around it making the seamless transition between plugins broken (as there is too much as a gap).

I've reproduced this problem. I'll make update shortly.

Quote:Also, I can't seem to get custom fonts to work at all with drive space. All the custom skins seem to show the default font, not the one chosen in the ini.

Hmm.. I've tried your skin. And it is working here. I've added the line:

Code:

font            = Courier New

into the [element1] section. Changed fonts some times and everytime Drive Space shows the right font. What is your windows version?

Also I've found that the text in the skin is drawn out off plugin space, so the text can be cleared by TLB.

[Yuri Kobets]

version 5.1 released. The "border" is removed.

[spalek83]

Yuri Kobets Wrote:

Quote:Also, I can't seem to get custom fonts to work at all with drive space. All the custom skins seem to show the default font, not the one chosen in the ini.

Hmm.. I've tried your skin. And it is working here. I've added the line:

Code:

font            = Courier New

into the [element1] section. Changed fonts some times and everytime Drive Space shows the right font. What is your windows version?

Also I've found that the text in the skin is drawn out off plugin space, so the text can be cleared by TLB.

the skin <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.truelaunchbar.com/skinslib/view/mlslcd.html?show=-1&orderby=0&sortdir=1&button=Apply&page=5">http://www.truelaunchbar.com/skinslib/v ... ply&page=5</a><!-- m --> shows netmon, sysmon and drive space all using the same numerical font. yet with drivespace 5.0/5.1 that font is not used, making the drive letter at the top too large, and the drive space in % too small (and in a non numerical font).

the .ini lists the font, so i'm not sure that is the issue

using win7x64
thank you on the boarder issue

[Yuri Kobets]

spalek83 Wrote:the skin <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.truelaunchbar.com/skinslib/view/mlslcd.html?show=-1&orderby=0&sortdir=1&button=Apply&page=5">http://www.truelaunchbar.com/skinslib/v ... ply&page=5</a><!-- m --> shows netmon, sysmon and drive space all using the same numerical font. yet with drivespace 5.0/5.1 that font is not used, making the drive letter at the top too large, and the drive space in % too small (and in a non numerical font).

Please can you try this version. I've made some changes but not sure this will help.

[spalek83]

issue remains with v5.1.01

i included a screen shot. as you can see, it looks rather different then it should

[Yuri Kobets]

Please can you tell me what do you use to change the taskbar skin? WindowBlinds or custom theme? Can you give me the url to the theme?

PS. I guess TLB ignore the font selection for the toolbar buttons. Please can you try to make the button with the label and change the toolbar font.

[spalek83]

Yuri Kobets Wrote:Please can you tell me what do you use to change the taskbar skin? WindowBlinds or custom theme? Can you give me the url to the theme?

uxtheme.dll to enable custom themes (not windowsblinds), then I use <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://minhtrimatrix.deviantart.com/art/Elune-199350232">http://minhtrimatrix.deviantart.com/art/Elune-199350232</a><!-- m -->

Yuri Kobets Wrote:PS. I guess TLB ignore the font selection for the toolbar buttons. Please can you try to make the button with the label and change the toolbar font.

Assuming I understood what you asked, yes, any custom skin selected in TLB settings does not reflect in the preview pane. It only changes from small text when <default font> is selected and then in bold when something else is selected. I included screen shots of this.
The addon should be using a specific font detailed by the Drive Space addon's skin's .ini file. How does toolbar font for buttons with labels impact the Drive Space addon's skin's determination of what font to use?

[Yuri Kobets]

Thank you very much! I've reproduced the bug and now try to fix it.

In the Drive Space I'm using the same way to draw text as in TLB (just call TLB to draw text). With the Elune skin I've found the problem. TLB ignore ALL fond settings.

Other plugins use a bit different way to draw the text.

[Yuri Kobets]

Is the version 5.1.0.1 have the same problems with the fonts with True Launch Bar v5.4?

[spalek83]

The issue is now gone with Drive Space 5.1.0.1 and TLB 5.4, fonts now show correctly. Included an image to confirm, you can compare it to the previous showing the error. Thanks