Make my own buttons ?

[vonotto]

I would like to make TB profiles for myself and others. I have the tool kit but need to know how to cut and paste my own pictures into it. What program do I need.

Or am I stupid and have no clue.....?

[ruggbutt]

No you're not stupid. That's usually reserved for me. You can make the buttons in MS Paint, Photoshop, Paintshop, etc. Any kind of program like that. The stock buttons in TB are 95x95 pixels.

[Vegas]

vonotto, once you get going, it's not hard. Like WBK said, use any graphic (.jpeg, .bmp, .gif) sized 95X95. Most guys use .gif's cause they are small filesized. I prefer .jpegs because my graphics program likes them and they aren't much bigger. 95X95 is the standard size, you can go a little bigger if you plan to drop out the title bar when used. You can actually go as big as you want (see my profile and the MFD "buttons" as an example). I actually went a little smaller on my buttons that surround the MFD's to fit all 25 of them onscreen (but you can't go too small, it will be too hard to press them). Anyway, once you have the graphic you want in a folder for the profile, open TB toolkit. I would start with one of the already made profiles, play with it, and get a feel for it (that's the way I got my feet wet anyway). Once you open a profile, at the top, click "tools", highlight "import buttons", click "from images or csv. files". Direct it to the correct folder, do "search" and you should see a list. At the top is a tab, "build buttons". Click that, you'll see little graphics and checkmarks. Pick what you want, click "build buttons" and they should pop up in the screen. Ok, now you import them to the profile, BUT, if I imported directly onto tabs, the program always crashed. So I selected import "to Library" and it worked fine. Then you close that and you can drag & drop the button you just made from the library to the work area. That probably sounds complicated, but give it a try, it's not as hard as it might sound. Good luck!

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Once you have your buttons created, you can also just drag them onto the Library Tab on the left side in the Toolkit. On the left side you will see a Profile tab and a Library tab. Just select the Library tab so it is visible, and drag and drop your images onto that list. That is another way to get your images onto the tab so you can use them.

Vegas, what profile were you using when TBTk crashed on Import to Tabs?

[Vegas]

WBK, using the latest and greatest version 1.0.1. NBD though, I just do the library thing and it works fine. I wouldn't worry about it, it might just be something w/ my computer, I just offered it up in case he ran into it and went WTF happened? Thanks, this is a great programming tool!