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Hello!
When I use one of the older skins of PA 2018 in the new 2019 version the progress bar looks pretty ugly.
It looks better with the new skins but I prefer the old ones.Unbenannt 1.jpg
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I still have a fondness for the very old buttonbars to be found at http://www.powerarchiver.com/skins/toolbar/.
Up until (I think) PA2017 it was possible to use them with the more recent skins, but I haven’t yet been able to work out a way, or the right combination, to do so with PA2018.
It’s not exactly the end of the world if the old bars can no longer be used, but I’m curious to know if they still can.
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I have had to reinstall PA 2016. I can now change to any of the included skins (Classic, etc.) but cannot use any of the downloaded skins (in the SKIN folder or obtained by double clicking on the download). Any ideas, please?
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I just wanted to express a congratulations to PixelPirate, Basj and Conmandeco.
Also, I think all the skins submitted to the contest were great and I know PA users appreciate each and every one of them. Nice work guys!
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 with some updates but WU is Disabled blame MS
PowerArchiver Toolbox 2015 v15.04.03Choose to use “Windows Dark” skin, Go into “Configuration” and select “Highlight archives” change from Black to any other colour, click OK twice I think.
Powerarchiver applies the new colour to archives briefly but then returns to Black again!
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Hi all…would like to know if it is possible to skin the main window to be other then white after the list of compress file list are shown? :rolleyes:
shot1.jpg show the main windows b4 it load anythings.
but once it load something the list will be in white with black text. I wish to change it to black with red text is it possible?shot2.jpg …where do i go to change that green LED to something else and its yellowish creamy background?
ps/ i am new with this…hope the screenshot show-up :)
Thanks.
basj
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Can I/we please, please, please have the option NOT to use the tab titles in ALL CAPS like Office 2013 please?
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there seems to be white bands on some of the borders for this theme, can that be fixed for the next update?
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Hi All,
Currently PowerArchiver 2011/12 hosts;
1 default Classic Toolbar and 20+ downloadable skins via website.
The user can also select 6 preinstalled Ribbon interfaces ranging from office 2007/10 with Black, Silver and Blue.
So significantly more classic old style than modern.
Do you as a PowerArchiver User prefer Ribbon or Classic?
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It possible to add more ribbon to new PA 2011??
If yes, i hope the developer add news office 14 ribbons…
Thanks, cant wait PA 2011!..
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:cool: I have to say without a doubt, Mr. Marc Foumbergs Skins are by far the best, most creative skins on the site! The others are good……but his are off the chain! Good job MARC! :p
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Hi!
All the Skins that can be download seems to be for the classic interface of PowerArchiver.Is it possible to create and/or change Skins for the ribbon interface?
It’s really not that important to me, I’m only wondering if it’s possible. From what I can see, only the color scheme of the ribbon interface can be changed (Blue, Silver and Back).
Kind Regards
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I can’t see any way of accessing and downloading from the PA site the old button sets (Little One, Damas, Xp and so forth) which could be used instead of the default buttons if using the Classic skin rather than the modern ones.
Is there any way of still being able to do this? Not a real necessity but some of those button sets were really good.
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Hi PA Crew!
When will users be able to download new skins for PA2007? in the new look?
How can a user create their own skin and upload it? and what program can they use?
Also are there any guidlines they should follow?
Thanks
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I thought I would start and maintain a thread related to my skins. Since the site doesn’t maintain a “Last Updated” I’ll post news and changes here.
This is the place if you want to submit feedback, ideas and of course problems.
Current Skins
SmoothVista, SmoothLime, LongHorn, Slate & PoisonedNews
(i) Currently I am working on two new skins and also performing numerous fixes and enhancements to existing skins.One issue in particular I am taking care of is the drop down arrow button located net to the Open button. I’ve managed to make it pretty slim in size allowing more space on the toolbar. So all skins will be updated by the end of the month.
(ii) Aside from one skin author who loves rating 1’s on all my skins, I have gotten some great feedback from other users! So regardless, I will continue creating skins and I am looking forward to any and all feedback.
(iii) Suggestions for icons and toolbar images. Icons are the hardest thing to do IMHO. Mostly because creating an icon that represents “compression” while looking different from other apps is a challenge. So what do you think?
Toolbar images. What do people prefer? OS related images? 2D or 3D? Colorful or ?
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The skin I produced for PA was more than similar to JJ’s and I now realize that my actions and decisions were wrong.
http://wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?SID=1&AID=121543&c=1
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Hi there….I been out from the net for a while …i am wondering what happened to the PA skin contest? Is there any winnder announce yet?
Thanks&Best Regards
basj
Skinning questions
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What determines the “grid” color?
What determines the “Highlight archives” color?Thanks for any info.
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Hi,
You can not customize grid color, but you can customize highlight archives color:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/skins/create.html
Highlightcolor= (convert HTML color into Decimal number in the Calculator i.e.: FF00FF is 16711935)
thanks,
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Thank you…. I didn’t relate the Hightlight color in the settings.ini, to the Hightlight archive color in the config… dOH! ;)
Wish the grid could be set, but that’s minor.
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maybe in the future? :-).
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Any chance the toolbar icons will ever support PNG. I’d like to make some, but I’ve been spoiled working with alpha blended images. I don’t care to fight with small icons that use single color transparency.
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we hope… for now, PA’s toolbar automatically adds alpha blending. If you check out any of the skins, it actually looks like an real thing…
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we hope… for now, PA’s toolbar automatically adds alpha blending. If you check out any of the skins, it actually looks like an real thing…
I don’t really understand how that works, but that doesn’t allow me to create an alpha blended icon. When applied I get jagged edges. I’ll just wait, and hope PNG support is added.
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I don’t really understand how that works, but that doesn’t allow me to create an alpha blended icon. When applied I get jagged edges. I’ll just wait, and hope PNG support is added.
Thanks…simply dont create aplha blended toolbar. Create one without alpha blending and then load it into PA. Check the icons then and see how they look disabled. Or simply download any skin from skins page and take a look at how toolbar looks.
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You’re not understanding me…… I don’t care to work with icons that aren’t anti-aliased against the background.
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Yep, we will try to add Alpha blending for toolbar in one of the future revision, problem is that our toolbar component does support PNG images with alpha blending but it doesnt support loading them from file.
Which is why we used automatic alpha blending which is much better than what we had before:
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Creating nice looking toolbar images can be difficult. What I normally do is work with transparent PNG’s.
After I put together a toolbar in PNG format I save it as a BMP. Open the file back up and re-color the alpha channel white.
This method works fine unless the image (button) is a round shape. Then I convert the alpha channel pixels to grey. I use RGB values of: 128, 128, 128 and also 192, 192, 192.
I attached an zoomed example showing alpha channel converted to the grey colors I mentioned.
Hope this helps.
