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**Soquili** · 20 January 2007, 02:01 AM

Vista Aero with Xara Xtreme Pro and a 'gel' button

**Cosmo Kramer** · 23 January 2007, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Vista Aero with Xara Xtreme Pro and a 'gel' button

thats called an "aqua" button

dosent anyone own a mac?

heres mine:

http://i16.tinypic.com/2zh4hvb.jpg

**Soquili** · 23 January 2007, 11:32 AM

Don't own a Mac

What do you call them when they are not blue?

**jyoung** · 23 January 2007, 05:15 PM

My first post, hope this works. This is my desktop. Pretty generic.

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**Cosmo Kramer** · 26 January 2007, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Don't own a Mac

What do you call them when they are not blue?

still called aqua

can you post a tutorial on how to make them?

**Soquili** · 26 January 2007, 11:40 PM

I'll point you to the pro for tutorials Gary Priester and his XaraXone. Workbook 51 on page 5 shows how to make the 'aqua' or 'gel' button in Xara X, X¹, Xtreme, or Xtreme Pro
http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook51/page_5.htm

In the thread http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ght=gel+button in post #8 Egg Bramhill attached a Xara .xar file with another tutorial for making those type of buttons.

**Seagull** · 25 October 2007, 03:16 PM

Just reviewing this old thread and thought I would post the one I am now using. Usually I just use a blank screen but recently combined a photo of the St. Lawrence and a clip art to finally give me a real desktop. It looks a bit better on the old computer but I have resized and changed to a gif to keep the size down. Why you ask? Well, I'm still running under win98, have 191 mb ram, use 800 x 600 screen resolution and have a 7 gig hard drive which always says take it easy please, so I am in the habit of keeping things small and light. Since the old machine still does all I want and all it needs, I see no reason to replace it at this point of time. Got me into the forum, right?......what else could you ask for!

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