What is a glyph?

Published on August 19, 2005 By sTonEbLuE In WindowBlinds

I am new to skinning and was wondering ....what is a glyph? I need a simple, if possible, explanation. Thx in advance.

Comments

on Aug 19, 2005

A glyph are those images you see on skins or in a skins folder like my music or pictures. Usually if your in skin studio and highlight that particular area in preview..on the Right side it will show " Glyphs" and they can be disabled. If you want to remove them.

Fairyy~

on Aug 19, 2005

Sometimes a logo on the start panel is a " glyph " depends on how they wanted it.

sTonEbLuE

on Aug 19, 2005

Thx Fairyy~......

Fairyy~

on Aug 19, 2005

Yw ...I dont know that much about skinning but I have removed a few glyphs

werewolf

on Aug 19, 2005

hmmm, I thought that a glyph, in Skin Studio anyway, was the actual image used for the 'x' in the exit button or the '-' for minimize/restore or whatever. Not the button image, but the 'x' and '-' themselves. Guess I guessed wrong.

CerebroJD

on Aug 19, 2005

Werewolf, you're on the right track, for sure. That is, I think, what the intention of the "glyphs" is. File size can be saved if you are skillful in their use, and it prevents duplicate files as well. Most people dont use it too much in skins though.

Chris TH

on Aug 20, 2005

There's always the dictionary (if you want to get technical

)

Noun: glyph glif

1. Glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief usually in stone

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Fairyy~

on Aug 20, 2005

[werewolf]
hmmm, I thought that a glyph, in Skin Studio anyway, was the actual image used for the 'x' in the exit button or the '-' for minimize/restore or whatever. Not the button image, but the 'x' and '-' themselves. Guess I guessed wrong.

And I stand corrected..but the images I'm referring to are listed under " Glyphs " so it can be a bit confusing.

thomassen

on Aug 20, 2005

What's that skin there Fairyy~?

Daiwa

on Aug 20, 2005

You can use a glyph to add a non-stretched/non-tiled graphic element to another graphic element, say a system button. The button graphic itself then serves as sort of the background and can be stretched or tiled without distorting the overlying glyph image. Since certain graphic elements can be sized differently in different apps, using a glyph is a good way to be sure a particular graphic element looks the same all the time, regardless of the underlying element size. I don't believe glyphs were added to WB until version 3.x or so, so there are still many skins out there that do not utilize them. They're just one more way of giving some flexibility to a skin.

And the above skin is Luna Alt (see the path for the image?).

Cheers,
Daiwa

CerebroJD

on Aug 20, 2005

Excellent description Daiwa... thank you!

sTonEbLuE

on Aug 20, 2005

Thx for the input. I've noticed that a lot of things in the making of a skin, you can add glyphs to it. I guess I will experiment some more.....

aufisch

on Aug 21, 2005

Thanks for the excellent explanation Daiwa, I have been wondering about those 'glyphs' as well. Now I know!

Daiwa

on Aug 21, 2005

Thanks, aufisch, but I just thought I knew something about glyphs. Right after that reply, I went to add one to the system button of a skin I'm working on and got stymied immediately - the Glyph Image attribute is listed in SKS for the system button but SKS won't let me assign an image! All the subattributes are assignable, but no image - strange. They work fine in the spinner buttons and most other graphic elements where they are permitted, but sheesh.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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