That sounds good, i'm going to see what i can do, the possibilities, the potentiel, of these changes are enormous

<if active="keyboard"><if keyfocused="true">
<UIItemsView background="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3802), window)" foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
</if>
</if>
<unless id="atom(FileName)">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 5, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
<if selected="true">
   <UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/>
</if>
</unless>

I'm not sure but to get it on mouse over, just add :

<if MouseFocused="true">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/>
</if>

<if WindowActive="false">
  <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>                                     
    <if drophighlight="false">
        <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
    </if>
                               
     <if mousefocused="true">
        <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     </if>
                               
     <UIImage background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView::ListView, 1, 5), highlight)"/>
</if>
                               
<if WindowActive="true">
     <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     <if drophighlight="true">
         <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     </if>
                                       
      <if mousefocused="true">
          <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
      </if>
                                       
       <if keyfocused="true">
            <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
       </if>
</if>
<UIImage background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView::ListView, 1, 5), highlight)"/>
</if>

Sorry, however everything seems correct

Thx u guys for this trick (i believed that Zeus had found it alone  ) !
hope you will make a tutorial because these changes deserve to be in the annals of customisation (a new step in the story of theming) and also because i don't understand some others changes (for example in "icons view", we have TWO differents images for the text selected: one for the text and another for the icon; exacty like mac..)

For Vista ?  good question...
I asked myself the same question, but i didn't find the correct file 

[blue hover and white text .]

Any chance you can share with us how you did the following:

When foristance we select a folder as 'icon', we have separate mouse over image for the folder  and other image for the text.
When we select a folder as 'details' we can have stripes, and mouse over images like mac os X , blue hover and white text .

The blue hover with white text is what I really want to know.

Yes these modifications are impressive: the theme created by Idas looks like mac not only in the interface but also in its use (for the first time), with an ingenious change in the properties of the explorerframe.dll file (40960.txt). Excellent find
i managed to add these modifications in dark soft, more precisely the second effect described which allows to change the image of the background adding some stripes behind the text, in details mode

I did not understand everything but here's what I did to get this result (all the credits for Zeus of course):
1) In the 40960.txt file I added this text box for the properties in details view mode:

"<UIItem resid="item.details" layout="borderlayout()" fontsize="9pt" padding="rect(10rp,0rp,0rp,0rp)" capabilities="selectable|focusable|renameable" tooltip="true" infotipcallback="true">
<UICheckbox layoutpos="left" padding="rect(2rp,0rp,0rp,2rp)" contentalign="middleleft"/>
<UIImage layoutpos="left" padding="rect(32rp,1rp,2rp,2rp)"/>
<UIDetailsPropertyCollection layoutpos="left" tooltip="false" sheet="details"/></UIItem>
<UIProperty resid="property.details.default" padding="rect(14rp,0,45rp,2rp)" active="keyboard"/>
<UIProperty resid="property.details.first" padding="rect(0,0,45rp,2rp)"/>
<UICollection resid="collection.details" LogicalImageSize="16" padding="rect(19rp,2rp,19rp,0rp)" margin="rect(0,0rp,0,0rp)" layout="borderlayout()" UIItemCreationPropMap="item.details">
<ItemRowLayout id="atom(UIItemsHost)" class="collection.details" layoutpos="top" padding="rect(-10rp,0rp,5rp,0rp)" UseItemWidth="false"/></UICollection>
<UICollection resid="collection.details.grouped" LogicalImageSize="16" padding="rect(0rp,0rp,5rp,0rp)" layout="borderlayout()" UIItemCreationPropMap="item.general.grouped" DevirtualizeItems="true">
<ItemRowLayout id="atom(UIItemsHost)" padding="rect(0rp,-17rp,5rp,0rp)" margin="rect(0rp,0rp,0,0rp)" layoutpos="top"/></UICollection>
<UICollection resid="collection.details.grouped.location" layout="borderlayout()" UIItemCreationPropMap="item.general.grouped.location" DevirtualizeItems="true" LogicalImageSize="16"><ItemRowLayout id="atom(UIItemsHost)" layoutpos="top"/></UICollection>
<UIRootItem resid="rootitem.details" columnpadding="0rp" layout="filllayout()" padding="rect(0rp,-1rp,0rp,0rp)" UICollectionCreationPropMap="*=collection.details,grouped=collection.details.grouped,grouped.location=collection.details.grouped.location">
<LineScroller padding="rect(0rp,0,0rp,0rp)" pinning="PinVert"><linkedviewer layoutpos="top" padding="rect(0rp,0,0rp,0rp)" xscrollable="true" yscrollable="false">
<UIViewHeader layout="borderlayout()" Resizable="true"/></linkedviewer>
<element id="atom(UICollectionHost)" background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView, 1, 1), argb(0,0,0,0))" padding="rect(-19rp,0rp,-19rp,0)" layout="filllayout()"/>
</LineScroller> </UIRootItem> "

Like you can see the main change has been brought at the end:
Like Idas, i added : background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView, 1, 1), argb(0,0,0,0))" padding="rect(-19rp,0rp,-19rp,0)"
This propertie determines the image you want to use as background for the explorer: of course you must also make this change with W7SB like shown here:



2) Other change, at the end of the 40960.txt file with this addition to change the color of the text (normal and hot state)

<style resid="details">
<FadeElement background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<PaintSurrogate background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<UIProperty background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<UIDetailsPropertyCollection background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<button background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<clipper background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<element background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"/>
<UIProperty height="20rp" accessible="true" accrole="Text" tooltip="true" tooltipmaxwidth="400" contentalign="middleleft|endellipsis|editcontrol" MaxNumTextLines="1"/><if active="keyboard"><if keyfocused="true">
<UIProperty background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView, 3, 1), argb(0,0,0,0))"/></if> </if>
 
<unless id="atom(FileName)">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 5, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
<if selected="true">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/></if> </unless>
 
<if id="atom(SearchHit)">
<FadeElement background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView, 1, 2), argb(0,0,0,0))" initialbackground="themeable(dtb(ItemsView, 1, 1), argb(0,0,0,0))" bordercolor="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), windowtext)" borderthickness="themeable(rect(0,0,0,0), rect(1,1,1,1))"/>
<if selected="true">
<FadeElement bordercolor="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlighttext)"/></if> </if> </style>

Go to Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Unknown and Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Subheader > Normal and modify the property "Color:text"

Finally add the adequate images to get "the blue hover with white text": Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ListView > ListItem (black in my case, for my own theme)

TA DA!



and sorry for my english

1) first image: Taskbar & System Tray > System Tray > Basic > Tray Notify Flyout > Footer

2) not with W7SB, see in your explorerframe.dll, UIFILE folder and in the "40960.txt" file search
<ItemRowLayout SeparatorLine="themeable(rgb(x, x, x), gradient(window, windowtext, window, 3))" SeparatorLineHeight="1rp"

You can make 2 things:
- delete this useless line (replace "1rp" by "0rp")
or
- just change the color

Thanks u very much Charleston !

thank u for your answer,
yes i mean the black text, you confirm my fears: i looked in differents themes and i noticed this problem . The color of the text for the normal and hot state is always the same ><

Hi,

Do you know how to change the color of this text in explorer (for the hover state more precisely) ? :

salut:

Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics (WINDOW:COLOR)

and relaunch your web browser

your French is good^^

This part is difficult to change with W7SB

So you can add in the shellstyle others properties about this font to modify it directly, for example:

fontface="Arial"
fontsize="10pt"
fontweight=bold" (or "normal")
fontstyle=shadow" (or "underline"

etc

In the shellstyle:

<if class="location_includes">

<Element

foreground="argb(255, 90, 103, 121)"

HI,

Where is this separator line we can see, for example, in control panel ?
More probably an image, but not sure ...

I hope not to be arriving late ^^ :

Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Address > Go Toolbar > Basic > Normal > Active > Button
Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Address > Go Toolbar > Basic > Normal > Inactive > Button

merci l'ami
quelques problèmes dû à mon "censured" de fournisseur internet 

2 and 3) Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ListView > GroupHeaderLine

I've just tried your own theme to fix it,
the image you use for the popupitem is too wide (Lists, Menus & Tabs > Menu > PopUpItem)

Vielen Dank !

I mean this:



I guess i must modify an image, but i don't know where to look

hi,

impossible to change it
you must choose another color for the background

yes great theme !

1) Buttons, Boxes & Controls > Boxes > ComboBox > ReadOnly
2) Buttons, Boxes & Controls > Boxes > Edit > Basic > Background
5) Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics (hottrackingcolor)
7) you can't delete it, but try to reduce the distance between the left and the text: Lists, Menus & Tabs > Menu > PopUpItem (contenmargins): try: -18, 0, 1, 1

try to add your own color (for normal state) here:
Start Menu > Panels > Aero > Top > JumpListUser

in search view mode the background color is that you gave to your image
go to Start Menu > Panels > Aero > Top > SearchView: add your own image, you'll understand

 in explorer:
all programs: Explorer & Shell > Explorer > TreeView (fillcolor)
for the search view, your must create your own image Start Menu > Panels > Aero > Top > SearchView

try:
Start Menu > Menus > Aero > KeyBoard:TreeView > TreeItem
Start Menu > Menus > Aero > Hover:TreeView > TreeItem
Start Menu > Menus > Aero > Hover:TreeView > TreeItem > Hot
add the "Textcolor" property

for the search view, like for explorer:
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics (WindowsText): normal
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView: hover

Grand merci à toi, content que ça plaise 

Finally, this is my first solid, and dark visual style:

Donwload link: http://rajtheeban95.deviantart.com/art/Black-it-s-Beautiful-153240734

Preview

Hi

I almost finished my theme for windows 7, but to make correctly my visual style for this OS, i would like to reduce the distance between the buttons in the taskbar, like shown in the screenshot:



i would like there is no space...

This problem doesn't exist with vista
i modified the images concerned, but it's not enought
i also changed the Sizing and contentMargins properties, without success

how to reduce this size? (it is possible?)

help   

i have just finished the visual style for vista yesterday, i began it for W7 this morning, it's not really in the same time 
in fact and personally I still use vista with windows 7 in dual-boot (too many applications and games I use daily are still incompatibles with the new OS)

so i thounght it will be interessting to publish a visual style for these 2 os

great ! thx 

merci, j'essaierais de publier une version bêta plus tard 
thx i 'll try to publish a beta version later

Thx u a lot 3am



i had to find this image for windows 7 and for vista ( for vista: Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Rebar > Default > Background)

However for the second it doesn't work 

i searched, but without result



and

yes i tried but the result awful (above all the gradient effect)
so i chose to mix these 2 colors with tis black: the blue clear for the left panel (like in silent night) and this white for the rest (like leopard style)

 Thx 3am

almost finished
this is the start menu ( 90% completed):

thx u very much Panda x
the most difficult : port this theme from vista for windows 7

this is the original theme (without my personal modifications)

up,

just a screenshot for my next visual style (dark and compact) for vista AND windows 7
i will try to publish a beta-test version later (the next week ?)
inspired by silent night, and DjabyTown's style

as always excellent  , but not sure for the orb of the start menu  

i tried this visual style with the blacks Pry icons by Jonas Rask, http://jonasraskdesign.com/iconarchive/iconarchive.html, the result is awesome 

i don't sure (i use the PC of my university for the moment)
but probably in PlaceBar in Shell (in Explorer), you must change an image i guess, something like that

eh bien, pour un premier thème, crois en mon "expérience" c'est très réussi
j'aime bien ton idée pour le thème "alien-science-fiction-E.T", moi qui suis très porté sur ce genre de choses (ufologie, S-Fi, etc)

mes petites suggestions:

pour l'arrière-fond du clique-droit, as-tu déja essayé avec un dégradé horizontal? j'imagine déjà l'effet, ca pourrait le faire
bon apart les boutons pour l'explorateur (je trouvais personnellement mieux ceux que tu utilisais dans le screenshot de ton tuorial), y'a rien à ajouter de plus

merci vraiment pour le crédit et n'hésite pas à mettre ton thème dans la section "visual style" de deviantart pour pouvoir le bêta-tester et pour avoir d'autres avis

with VSB:

Taskbar & Tray Notify > Tray Notify > Basic > Horizontal > TrayNotify > Background and change CONTENTMARGINS:MARGINS (the second number above all)