Skinning on option menu

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Skinning on option menu

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:47 pm

I am so excited because I've figured out the functionality - now I have to skin the application. I am using option menus. It allows icons and borders for skinning - but leaves a really ugly left space (in addition to the right arrow bar, which I expect). How do I eliminate the ugly left?
(my background is blue - and I want to eliminate the gray to the left of the word "Regulations/

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Re: Skinning on option menu

Post by Randy Hengst » Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:48 pm

You can adjust the margins under the Text Formatting tab.... look up Margins in the dictionary... it always takes be a bit of tweaking to set the right.

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Re: Skinning on option menu

Post by cusingerBUSCw5N » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:12 pm

I tried that. I think the only way to do it is to NOT have the arrow on the right - and then size the button so that only the image shows. It seems that the image is automatically centered - you can't align it to the right.

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Re: Skinning on option menu

Post by Randy Hengst » Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:01 pm

This is what I tried... The attached png is of a button sized 154x38. The red icon image is 140x40. The text is center aligned. The Margins are set at 20,20,44,10.
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