But Panda, you know how to change explorer background In 7 , because its not fully white?

Search for ItemsView. In the main class (part 0 state 0) there's a FILLCOLOR:COLOR that changes it.

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > CommandModule

Buttons, Boxes & Controls > Progress Bars > Normal > Fill > <4>

http://aveapps.com

I've achieved a horizontal move, but only partially. It appears to stay in the center of the Places list. This leads to using transparency to fake the position of the user picture, etc.

Got a screen?

I don't think it is possible to move it horizontally.  I have tried to do it, but I can only move it up and down, but it won't move left and right.  I think what 3DUserpic program does is disable the userpic and the program draws its own frame there, and draws your userpic after doing a transformation to it. I'm sure it is independent of the MSSTYLES so you move it freely

I think 3dUserPic modifies it. If you have it disabled in the mssstyles then 3dUserPic doesn't do anything.

Is it possible to make the same changes for the Windows 7 Start Button which is not in the msstyles, and for the back and next buttons which are also not in the msstyles?

No because neither are defined in any DUIXML file throughout the system.

How complete is v1.4 as far as customizing Windows 7? Are all images in it and properties and such?

Oh, and for RTM.

I've merged the XMLs into the main tree (no more Windows 7 branch) and removed empty classes as well as moved old legacy classes into a legacy classes branch. I've named the important things so it should be smooth. I've sent the XMLs to Ave. As for RTM it works fine, the MSStyles hasn't changed since 7048 I believe. The importer script has been updated as well.

Search TrayNotify::Toolbar

Most stylehacks don't work in 7 due to changed class names.

And a blurred/transparent ProgramsList isn't possible any more. MS broke it and didn't fix it.

http://thepanda-x.deviantart.com/art/SmoothVS-for-7-Blue-Alpha-131379230

so I can't change the image in vista stylebuilder

Nope. You can yell at Microsoft for that.

Replace the bitmaps in C:\Windows\Explorer.exe then restart explorer.

http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=389.0

Any chance we could get a template. Just outlined parts where we can make our own?

Not any more. There's a bug in the start menu that makes this no longer possible.

The Start Button is in C:\Windows\Explorer.exe\Bitmap

http://xxinightxx.deviantart.com/art/Gateway-Theme-130008705

This is an example of a vista style that doesn't work, if i open it up in vista style builder it doesn't look right since the fonts section is completely messed up.

I have tried using uxtheme patcher, uxstyle, vistaglass, vista style master to patch the system but I get error 'the visual style could not be applied' when applying the theme  Is there something I can do using VSB to fix this?

When the fonts are messed up it's not loaded the MUI. Does the theme come with a en-US or some other locale folder with a MUI in it?

I too tried this and no go. Sadly I don't think it's possible

Hi,

I upgraded to Vista x64 and would like to know what exactly are the differences between the DLL files?
Is it simply a Copy & Paste operation from the internals of the x86 DLL files to x64?  Or is it more difficult than that?

Thanks! 

Yeah that's all you have to do is reimport the resources.

Hi guys, Win7SB gives me a problem. It gives to images strange numbers like 10000, and I want that the first image is 508. I heard there is a way by editing the INI file, but how?

Oh, and another questions: where is located the preview window frame? You know, the task window preview on the taskbar o..o

Thanks for the help, and sorry for my very crappy english

Follow the instructions here: http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=200.0
Just use 508 instead of 1.

For the preview window frame search for TaskbandExtendedUI

Well that sucks.  That means it can't have its own style without it having to affect other areas?

You could probably change it in the shellstyle.

In Windows 7 you have to have that set to

Code:

FirstImageId=508

I've managed to port a vista VS over to win7, got the browseui.dll ported over to explorerframe.dll

but I just don't know which dll to resedit in order to change these icons

I believe those are in shell32.dll.

DEFAULTPANESIZE:RECT

RECT(x,y,w,h)

http://hybridplay.110mb.com/img/border.png
Sorry, but apparently the little picture icon doesn't work. =(

403 Forbidden error.

Can you provide a screenshot?

Change the content margins of the programs list.

I wonder if something similar can be done with the text in the places bar.



As you can see with the pic the left arrow/triangle on the Control Panel link has black glow rendered after some tweaking, can it be turned on for the Text labels too does anyone know?

Start > StartMenu > Menus > Aero > PlaceList:ListView

Seems the Scroller is a floater. One thing you could try is putting some padding on the listview. Not too sure how well that would work though.

I've the same problem.
I can load other VS and view its name without problem, but my style appears as "Aero Style" (but this is not the "default" name of Vista VS, default name is "Windows Aero").
I changed this documentation that Panda X posted, but it doesn't change nothing.
Anyone knows what's happening? What I have to look through?
Thanks.

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9338

Change DisplayName:String in Documentation > Variant > Color: Normal

Uh, wow. Can I get your theme w/ shellstyle?

[A]

I'm guessing it comes from his name Andreas Verhoeven, kind of like his initials I guess.  That's just a guess, though.

You win.

Wow, that's really nice!

okay, what do I need to do to remove the help icon then?
And does anyone know how to take off the animated image?

To take out the Help Button comment the the <if ... </if> when you search <if id="atom(HelpButton)"> in the shellstyle's UI file. As for the animated image, take out all occurrences of animation="..."

For this area: There's a way to short its height, and change text color?
I've tried adding properties, but I've cannot found a way.

There's a stylehack in the StyleHacks menu to shorten its height.

Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Toolbars & Headers > Header > HeaderItem

Probably was more than one solution to this but simplest seemed to be streching the image by 2 pixels and so making that black center pixel 3 wide. Then using sizing margins: '3, 3, 3, 3' and a content margin value of '8, 0, 0, 0' seemed to achieve what you were after. Possibly 9 as the content margin looks better, that bits up to you.

Yeah that's probably the only way to fix it. DWM isn't fun to work with for that reason.

I want to know:
1) How to add text glow to the address bar as well as the search box
2) Where the magnifying glass image is located (At the end of the search box)
3) Where refresh button image is located (Between the adress bar and the search box)

1) http://stylehacks.deviantart.com/art/Address-Bar-Text-Glow-101487762
2) Windows\System32\BrowseUI.dll
3) Windows\System32\BrowseUI.dll (Windows\System32\IEFrame.dll for Internet Explorer)