I suggest that you study more themes and see what possiblities there are with this file. A good theme to look at might be BBX Mercury X since it uses many states for the view button.
If the masks are not the same size, just resize them by pasting a 75 pixel wide image. I have done this in all of my themes, I think.
It's possible to have alpha channels in these buttons, but it's much easier if you use fake transparency and alpha instead. Then you wont have any problems with the masks. The times I tried using alpha channels, they did not look good.
If you by
" I'm noticing the individual color resource elements are also surrounded by white - is this necessary? "
mean that there is white around the view buttons, it's not necessary to use white, you can use any color. The image that is showed is controlled by the mask. But all of the different parts of the view button should be the same size, otherwise it will probably be hard to get them to look right.
Hope that helped somewhat. Please ask if you need any more help.
By the way, it seems to me that even Apple dislikes the Localized.rsrc. Otherwise they should have updated the view button into Jaguar style, don't you think..?
If the masks are not the same size, just resize them by pasting a 75 pixel wide image. I have done this in all of my themes, I think.
It's possible to have alpha channels in these buttons, but it's much easier if you use fake transparency and alpha instead. Then you wont have any problems with the masks. The times I tried using alpha channels, they did not look good.
If you by
" I'm noticing the individual color resource elements are also surrounded by white - is this necessary? "
mean that there is white around the view buttons, it's not necessary to use white, you can use any color. The image that is showed is controlled by the mask. But all of the different parts of the view button should be the same size, otherwise it will probably be hard to get them to look right.
Hope that helped somewhat. Please ask if you need any more help.
By the way, it seems to me that even Apple dislikes the Localized.rsrc. Otherwise they should have updated the view button into Jaguar style, don't you think..?