That's acutally a really good idea!

If thats the only soution...

no probs. I look forward to seeing the results if it does work

The solution would be to find a skin that has animated title bar buttons. Does anyone know one?

It's something Erik and I have been working on together. Animated titlebar buttons are not a problem, we can do that. We're trying to have a seperate button that animates next to the titlebar buttons that only animates when the titelbar buttons are moused over. Sput's idea of having the large transparent area idea was good, but it made the titlebar buttons non-functional. We've tried every possible way to do it, but haven't come up with anything, so we're scrapping the animation for now.

Hmm, this seems to be geting more and more complicated. It started out with just animating title buttons. Now, its animating a secondary button when the original is moused over. I actually did a similar idea on the Batman WB that I made. But, the mouse over secondary button was static.

You could 'fake' it by animating the titlebar itself, and using trans/opacity on the buttons to reveal or hide the animations

#21 - oooh, I like that solution...very devious! BUT, can you hid a button on mouse-over another button? I thought you could only show them?

Take a look at this skin by PJPowell...... It has an unusual way of dealing with titlebar button animations. AND, this skin was made BEFORE WindowBlinds had the ability to animate titlebar buttons, so much kudos to Phil for achieving it.

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=850

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=850

So, I guess that title bar button animation only works with 6 frame buttons. Is there a skin that uses the "new method" of button animation that I could see. My buttons don't seem to recognize the animation frames. Thanks.