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Yet another help thread by me

I got round the skinning the dash highlight thing, and all is good apart from one thing.
I put the metadata to colorize the highlights on the dash, but the highlight are kinda deformed

This is the code i have for the 2 highlight states

code:

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  <Picture Id="20201">
    <File>Images/20201.png</File>
                    <Metadata>
                 <Colorize>true</Colorize>                       
                        </Metadata>
  </Picture>
                             
   <Picture Id="20202">
    <File>Images/20202.png</File>
           <Metadata>
                      <Colorize>true</Colorize>                         
               </Metadata>
   </Picture>

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that makes it look like


The button is supposed to be colorized and not look deformed =/

When i remove the metadata, the button is not deformed yet it is not colorized =/
So is there any way to make it colorize I've been looking for way all day, seems  impossible, all the skins I've downloaded to find out how, haven't done it..

thanks in advancet

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Originally posted by duck!
Yet another help thread by me

I got round the skinning the dash highlight thing, and all is good apart from one thing.
I put the metadata to colorize the highlights on the dash, but the highlight are kinda deformed

This is the code i have for the 2 highlight states

code:

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  <Picture Id="20201">
    <File>Images/20201.png</File>
                    <Metadata>
                 <Colorize>true</Colorize>                       
                        </Metadata>
  </Picture>
                             
   <Picture Id="20202">
    <File>Images/20202.png</File>
           <Metadata>
                      <Colorize>true</Colorize>                         
               </Metadata>
   </Picture>

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that makes it look like


The button is supposed to be colorized and not look deformed =/

When i remove the metadata, the button is not deformed yet it is not colorized =/
So is there any way to make it colorize I've been looking for way all day, seems  impossible, all the skins I've downloaded to find out how, haven't done it..

thanks in advancet

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You need to specify UMMargins on your button

<UMLeft> <UMRight> <UMTop> and <UMBottom> need to be added for it to work, otherwise it will just stick to tile mode.

Done that, now none of the highlight states are showing up

what margins did you give it?

10, on all of them

10 is a bit too big looking at the image you have.

Try using 3-5. If that doesnt work then put the code up you have and i will take a look.

That sorta worked
Attachment will explain.
The Code im using to change "20201" and "20202" :

code:

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                         <Graphics><Pictures>
                             <Picture Id="20201">
                                <File>Images/20201.png</File>
                                   <Metadata>
                                      <Colorize>true</Colorize>       
                                    <UMLeft>4</UMLeft>
                                      <UMTop>4</UMTop>
                                       <UMRight>4</UMRight>
                                    <UMBottom>4</UMBottom>                                                                   
                                 </Metadata>
                             </Picture>
                             <Picture Id="20202">
                                <File>Images/20202.png</File>
                                          <Metadata>
                                            <Colorize>true</Colorize>
                                    <UMLeft>4</UMLeft>
                                      <UMTop>4</UMTop>
                                       <UMRight>4</UMRight>
                                    <UMBottom>4</UMBottom>                                                                       
                                 </Metadata>
                             </Picture>
                         </Graphics></Pictures>

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the code you have seems to be right, However it seems to be that wlm is restricting it from colorizing.

There are some parts of WLM where even if you specify something to colorize, it simply won't. Its not because of a plus bug or anything, its just because WLM is anal and won't let it.

Another example of this is the now playing icon, even if you specify it to colorize, it won't.

Dodgy, Thanks for your help anyway

As Willz said, the toolbar doesn't colorize. You may be able to force it to colorize with the colorize attribute but I don't know if you can make it the messenger color.