Crack between top of taskbar and bottom of any maximized app

Published on February 15, 2008 By fontinalis In WindowBlinds

Hi all,

Does anybody know how I can get rid of the line between the top of my taskbar and the bottom of whatever app I'm using. It's just blank space and I can see my desktop wall through there.

Just kind of an eye catching/non ergonomic annoying thing is all. I'm using winxpprosp2. This has always been there with many skins (Diamond now), and previous versions of WB6 as well.

I already tried 'don't use per pixel borders' w/no change.

Cheers,
f

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Comments (Page 1)

fontinalis

on Mar 15, 2008

I posted this some time ago but never got a response so I'll give it another try.

When I load some skins in WB6, like the new Dragon skin, I get an unskinned line "crack" between the browser and the taskbar? The crack spans the entire taskbar and any app that is fully maximized (i.e., browser, word, etc...).

partial screenshot of my crack

winXPpro/SP2/newest WB6 beta

Cavan1

on Mar 15, 2008

It is because those skins, as Dragon does, have a completely transparent resizing bar. You need to open the skin in SkinStudio and edit the image for resizing bar so it is not completely trans.

fontinalis

on Mar 15, 2008

Thanks Canvan! I'll fire up SK6 right now but I don't know how to use that program. So I'm looking for the resizing bar image?

BTW, I thought I could just use duct tape on that crack.

3M duct tape

theAVMAN

on Mar 15, 2008

So I'm looking for the resizing bar image?

1st)Edit Start Menu and Taskbar(2nd)Edit Horizontal Taskbar (3rd)Resizing bar

Use the same canvas size (for ease)make a non-trans image

fontinalis

on Mar 15, 2008

OK. I screwed up the first dragon, uninstalled it, redownloaded it and made a Dragon Test copy to work on.

Now i'm in the right place.

Use the same canvas size (for ease)make a non-trans image

By 'same canvas size' you mean to use the same image size right? I'm in Resizing Bar/image tab then I click edit image...but...when I click on edit image all i have is mspaint.

So I open the image in mspaint and get a little black line, zoomed in, poured brown in with the paint bucket, closed sk6 and my crack is gone.

THANKS AVMAN!!!

Bichur

on Mar 15, 2008

locking the taskbar makes it go away too

fontinalis

on Mar 15, 2008

So wazzup with that Bichur? I just opened the original Dragon skin, locked the TB and whammo it's gone.

Cavan1

on Mar 15, 2008

locking the taskbar makes it go away too

Hey Sir B., sure that is the easy way but when you have a skin with a nice resizing bar you then have to unlock taskbar to have full look. One that comes to mind is Copper Deck 2, much better look with task unlocked.

Cavan1

on Mar 15, 2008

So wazzup with that Bichur?

When taskbar is locked you can't resize it so no need for resizing bar

fontinalis

on Mar 15, 2008

You guys rock! I'll keep playing with SK6. Looks like I need some imaging sw besides mspaint too. I'll see what free packages are out there. Thanks a bunch.

Bichur

on Mar 15, 2008

locking the taskbar makes it go away too

Hey Sir B., sure that is the easy way but when you have a skin with a nice resizing bar you then have to unlock taskbar to have full look. One that comes to mind is Copper Deck 2, much better look with task unlocked.

yeah, but on Dragon is seems to make no diff except for the empty space

So wazzup with that Bichur?

When taskbar is locked you can't resize it so no need for resizing bar

2of3

on Mar 15, 2008

I'll see what free packages are out there.

Paint.net comes to mind....... totally free it is too!

Bichur

on Mar 16, 2008

weird - today Dragon doesn't have a little blank, today it's white

mike b1954

on Mar 17, 2008

Dragon doesn't have a little blank

.. So ...Is it a big white blank , then ?

...

Alternate Setting

on Mar 17, 2008

weird - today Dragon doesn't have a little blank, today it's white

I've had this a few times with Dragon. The white bar is visible even with the taskbar locked, which shouldn't happen with a normal resizing bar.

Mostly a re-apply works to restore the transparency.

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