RPM_VR4

I think you got it now. Why can't you click what is behind the transparent part? You should be able to. My program "cuts a hole" in the SKINlayer whereever there is a fully transparent pixel. Any click in that area should go through the SKINlayer to the app below. The only thing I'm not sure of is if you would be able to see the drop-down (since when it is dropped down, you do have a graphic over it... however, I believe the drop-down is still drawn over the SKINlayer - I just can't say 100% for sure as I haven't tested that).

If the drop-downs don't work, you could hide the drop-down arrow on the right of the box, and then add up/down buttons to your skin that change the drop down. You would do that by running an Auto-It script that selects the drop-down box and the sends the up or down arrow key to it. This method would probably look better anyway.

How to make transparent cut out's in PhotoShop:
1) Open your graphic
2) Select all (Ctrl-A)
3) Copy (Ctrl-C)
4) Click File->New
5) Make sure the background radio box is set to "transparent"
6) Click Ok (the dimentions should already be the same as your image)
7) Paste your image (Ctrl-V)
8) Use the rectangular selection tool to draw a box.
9) Press the delete button on your keyboard.
You just made a "transparent cut-out"!

MP3Car.com

 

JC-S60

This is some powerful stuff

Great work!

__________________
List of front-ends/usefull apps
XTroniC | XTroniC Direct

nemo1

Many many thanks to you.

I think the way i do a transparent cut-out is wrong. After following your instructions, I got something like this in photoshop:



Then I overlay. When I click on the arrow, nothing happens. Like you said I might not see the drop down so I change the overlay image to smaller. Something like this:



Then I overlay again and get:



When I click the buttons in the area shown by the red arrows nothing happens, however I am able to pan the green box area.

Did I do the transparent cut-out incorrectly or the way I embed?

Thanks

RPM_VR4

It all looks good to me. You should be able to click exactly what you see. Your saying you cannot press any button or drop-down where the cut-outs are? That is very strange. Your images is definatly correct. I don't think it's possible that SKINbedder is intercepting the clicks, they should go right through all my opjects to the embedded form. I'm not sure what to tell you at this point.

If you can't figure it out, post your ini files for both your image overlay and the embedded window (you will have to rename the extention to .txt so the board will let you attach them).

nemo1

Here are the files. I don really understand what the NRMAP file is for? Seems to be able to embed without it. I noticed when I save the png files, I get this: PNG options none or interlaced.

Folders are like this, inside SB folder:



then inside nRoute folder:

MP3Car.com