I'm not sure but you might want to take a look at
Lists, Menus & Tabs > Menu > BarBackground

Anyone know how this can be achieved without the stylehack? Cause the download is broken.

Well what you need to do is save a 32 bit bmp with a alpha channel and through it into a alpha converter and then click shift+import

Results in plain white buttons..

WSB doesn't import images with gradients properly.

Yeah I noticed somehow... lol
But that never happened before so I don't know. I'll try using Restorator to change the image then.

EDIT: Didn't work even with Restorator. The gradient still appears opaque.

Already knew this but might be useful for beginners, thanks

Can I take a look your theme file?

Sorry but I'd rather keep it private for the moment. Tell me what you want to know about the theme and I'll give you the info..

I think
Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton   BGTYPE:ENUM IMAGEFILE

It's already set to imagefile

Same problem here...

Did you try to "shift-import" your image ?

Good point, thanks. That -kind of- worked, the gradient is displaying properly now but it is opaque even though I have Transparent:bool checked..



Any ideas?

An idea would be mess with the sizing margins, and if that didn't work just make the taskbar buttons smaller.  7 is just sizing them smaller in the wrong way.

It didn't work, and I kinda guessed it in advance since the problem occurs with small icons too. Thanks for trying though ..

Hey,
I have a problem with the sizing of the Taskband item buttons.
My original PNG has a gradient that doesn't display right when I apply the theme, so I tried changing the sizing margins to the path "Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton" where the image is located but it didn't work.
Image:



How can I fix this?
Thanks!

Can we put a "Not Verified" message on users after a week or so who haven't, so we can see who is and who isn't legit. 

I am legit and I haven't been here for a long while. So I guess your idea would make a lot of innocent people look bad too.

Oh yeah something similar happens when you choose to change the window's border size. When you make them the smallest, if you want a straight 1 px line visible you need to draw a 2 px line in the image itself. Kinda weird.

I'm not sure I really understood what your problem is but if your images are distorded it's probably a sizing margins problem.

The program crashes a lot, specially when I save. It's really getting annoying.
And there's a bug with the stylehacks, I made large shadows on one of my visual styles, imported them in a stylehack to apply them easily on my other themes.
I applied that stylehack to my latest visual style, I clicked Import Images but it bugged and now there's no image at all: and the size viewer on the top left says 0 x 0 px. I tried putting the image manually but it makes the prog crash.

Go there: Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics
And change the value of the property PADDEDBORDERWIDTH:SIZE
It should be 4 by default. Make ita higher number and your borders will be larger. It works to make them thinner too.

Authentic Shorthorn Confusion by Santa X

I lol'd.

This picture will talk more than any word I could write here.







Including 3 start orbs and a brand new feature to the browsing interface; you actually have to guess what window will come up when you click on the taskbar.

Damn, I wish bill gates could see this.

PS: This is a joke.
PS2: This is a real theme.

Photoshop definately CAN handle 32 bit bmps, but you need to go to the Channels panel and create an alpha layer.
It works that way.

why would anyone want to get rid of the taskbar?

bump, I'd need this too..

On vista its located here: Windows and Caption Buttons > Aero > Dwm Window > Glows > Text
Should be the same or similar to that on 7.

Sorry if I sound like a bitch now but I don't think I ever allowed you to use parts of my theme.
Please respect my work and the time I spent making my visual style and at least ask for permission to mod / take parts of it.

Try changing the two last values of the content margins maybe.
Not sure if it'll work, but it should.

This is f****** awesome. :D

It looks interesting.  Are you planning on releasing more details?

Maybe you can update AveStyler to support this type of replacement.
Right now, AveStyler can only load themes -- which is great!  But now on Windows 7, Start Button is in Explorer.exe...

So for instance, have "Resources" folder inside of C:\Windows\Theme\Squaero

Example:

I have 'explorer.exe' in C:\Windows\Theme\Squaero\Resources
AveStyler reads "Resources" folder and sees 'explorer.exe', 'shell32.dll', 'explorerframe.dll'.

AveStyler then applies the explorer, shell32, and explorerframe .dll's without touching system files.

That's a great idea. Not sure if it's possible but I sure hope it is.

bump. :/

Well the right frame works perfectly, but not the left...

Uhh that's a pretty weird problem.. For some reason my left DMW frame ignores the sizingmargins I set... while the right one works fine.
That's annoying..

Well I noticed that it passes UNDER the ListView > ListItem > Hot image (see below), so I thought that if I'd fill Listview > ListItem > Normal with my bg's color, it would go over it. I had to add an image to the normal state but it didn't give any result :/ I never added an image before so maybe I didn't do it right ..

Not a fillcolor nor a textcolor, I checked.
I tried some themes around and they all seem to have the same problem..

Found nothing in the shellstyle either

Argh x_X i hope its in the shellstyle then. I'll take a look.

When you set the view to Content view on windows 7, these lines are displayed between each item.
I'd like to know where to change them..

http://nittiyh.deviantart.com/art/Kiilki-VS-140703440

Also, the function where I was able to navigate with my arrow keys is gone. It makes navigation much slower and infuriating.

I have news, I succeded in porting this theme, but I had to open Aero.msstyles first and import the whole Startmenu tree to a stylehack, and apply it to the port.
Maybe the import option doesn't translate the startmenu properties correctly..

That happens to me too.

http://invaderjohn.deviantart.com/art/DEUCE-for-vista-104609483
This one doesn't work either.

That's only possible with Basic, I think the Aero caption button's size is hardcoded.

Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Basic > Normal > Active > Background
Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Basic > Max > Active > Background
Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Basic > NonTopmost > Background

Don't worry about it dude, it's all good