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Just about every part of the appearance of GigaTask can be changed by using a different skin. Skins are delivered as Zip files. Just put the Zip file in the GigaTask / Skins directory, and it'll show up on this page. Check off the parts of the skin to use (you can mix and match), and OK out. |
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If you're interested in creating skins, read on. This describes what files are in those zip files:
| The most obvious part of the skin is the BoxWall image.It's 120 X 160, and, like all the skin images, can be stored as gif, jpg, or bmp. As long as it's called BoxWall.???, GigaTask will find it. |  |
| MenuWall.??? is used as the background for all the menus. |  |
| MenuSep.??? appears only on the TaskBar / TaskMenu display. It's used as a separator between two sections of the menu. Pixel (0, 0) is used as the Transparent color in this and other images that require transparency. |  |
| Buttons.??? has the images that are used for the TaskBox and the tiny TaskBar icons. There are actually 12 button images, only 3 are shown here. |  |
| ResButs.??? has two 26 X 26 icon images, used in the TaskBar, in GigaTask mode. |  |
| XOKButs.??? is a monochrome bitmap. White is replaced by the Today Theme Foreground color, and Black is replaced by the Background color. This image is used for the Basic mode, and shows Button Up and Down images. |  |
| SmXOK.??? is similar, and is used for the upper right icon in Pro mode. |  |
In addition to the images, there's also a Skin.txt file. This is where the Button Names, Fonts, Transparency, etc. are defined:
| The 12 Button images are given names with lines like these: | Image00 Image01 Image02 |
Desk Outlook Compaq |
| There's a Font for the List in the TaskBox, and another for the Menu. Skin.txt defines the Font Name, Color (in hex, as 0xBBGGRR), Height, Italics (0-1), Weight, and Shadow (0-2: None, Black, White). | ListFontNm ListFontCl ListFontHt ListFontIt ListFontWt ListFontSh |
Tahoma 0xFFFFFF 13 0 700 2 |
| The transparency of the List and Menu wallpaper is defined as an integer from 0-1000. 100 indicates 10 percent transparent. | ListTrans | 100 |
| The stretching / tiling of the image for the Menu Wallpaper is defined here (0: Tile, 1: Stretch Horiz, 2: Stretch Vert, 3: Stretch Both. | MWStretch | 3 |
| The spacing of lines in the Menus is set here, in vertical pixels. | MenuLine | 18 |
| Set MenuTop to something other than 0, to leave blank space at the top of all menus. | MenuTop | 16 |
All of these files appear in the GigaTask / Skins / Current directory.
By checking just some of the boxes in the dialog at the top, the
user can use just some elements from a skin, and leave other things unchanged.
GigaTask will UnZip the appropriate image files, and make the necessary changes to the Skin.txt file in Current.