You mean in VSB?

No the directory in which the theme is running in.

well after trying your suggestions, i find that the problem still remains even with an aero style. I think the best bet would be to try and locate the area in the shellstyle and modify it from there and making a backup of the original.

Is the directory tree proper?

have you tried increasing the margins, if not it may be fixed size buttons on the dialogs which you can do nothing about.

Sometimes buttons have hardcoded sizes.

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > CommandModule > <1>

Contact me over live 

I made those changes before 140. Looking back at the XMLs apparently I forgot to save.  Sorry about that.

Would that happen to be in TrayNotifyHoriz::TrayNotify>Background? Also that stylehack wasn't quite what i was looking for and didn't seem to make a difference but thanks anyway. Also, i'm trying to change the outlay of the start menu and where the search box is, there seems to be an opaque layer surrounding it (shown in pic http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6251523e4355f01ScreenShot003.bmp) thats if you can see it of course, and i'm trying to remove the transparency. Is it possible?

You have to change the images your self.

1) Is there any way to make the start menu (at point 1 in pic) see through like the taskbar (at point 2 in pic)? http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6606582c9284174ScreenShot001.bmp

2) Is there a way to increase the margins for lettering as they seem to be cut off at the ends in the tray notify at the points shown: http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/439582c92841741ScreenShot002.bmp

1) http://stylehacks.deviantart.com/art/Composited-Programs-List-101699264

2) CONTENTMARGINS:MARGINS

Hi,

I am nearly done with my theme, but I have OCD (not really, but, well maybe I do...) and want to do a complete theme makeover even for the parts that won't be seen by 95% of the people.  I just wish to know where these parts are located:

Thanks in advance 

Ha. That's a good thing

1. - 3.: I don't think they're used.
4.: I doubt you'll ever see it but it's for the recent dropdown in Aero Wizards.
5.: Somewhere in the Calendar. Check Date/Time.
6.: Still have yet to see ExplorerBar.
7.: See 5.
8.: Never seen it used.
9.: Don't think it's used ever.
10.: Not used.
11.: May not be used anymore, play around with the details pane and see if you see it.
12.1:Preview Shine. It's under the CommandBar.
12.2: I'll have to look into it later.

That's not possible. (Or at least from the msstyles it's not)

This usually happens when authui.dll is messed up. Have you modified it?

Frantically keep trying. That dialog will show eventually asking for permission to patch the uxtheme.

Like: http://media.longhornfusion.net/misc/vsbtest/1.png ?

I found this fun. You can speed up or slow down the Pulse/MoveOverlays on progress bars.

Normal: Buttons, Boxes & Controls > Progress Bars > Normal
Properties to change:
FRAMESPERSECOND:INT (Higher = Faster)
PIXELSPERFRAME:INT (Higher = Faster)
ANIMATIONDELAY:INT (Higher = Faster)
ANIMATIONDURATION (Higher = Faster)

Indeterminate: Buttons, Boxes & Controls > Progress Bars > Indeterminate
PIXELSPERFRAME:INT (Higher = Faster)

I think it's a part of the command bar image. Search CommandBar in the search box. You'll find it. Change it to see if it's still there.

[CAPTIONBARWIDTH:INT]

Hi guys can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Also how do i make the size of teh min/max/ and close buttons to the size of windows 7?

As for the black preview pane I don't know but I'll look into it. What did you recently change?

As for the caption size change CAPTIONBARWIDTH:INT and CAPTIONBARHEIGHT:INT to 21 in Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics

I tried commenting the <if id="atom(HelpButton)"> ... </if> block out, but it broke the shellstyle.dll.
What all do you have to comment out?

I thought this might be the easier, albeit not "good practice", way of removing the help button.

<!--<if id="atom(HelpButton)"> ... </if>-->

Don't know why it wouldn't work but ok.

Yes, what you will need to do is look at your UIFile > 1 in shellstyle.dll.

Search for

Code:

<if id="atom(HelpButton)">

and you should come across two results.
Then simply change the name of the parameter.  I added an extra 'e' and now it looks like this:

Code:

<if id="atom(HeelpButton)">

.
This change throws off the reference and apparently doesn't break the shellstyle in the process.  It just ignores it.

The help button in the folderband should not appear at all now and the area won't be an invisible, clickable button.
It'll appear as if it had never existed.

Hope this helps 

It would be better to comment it.

This is a shellstyle image. So you have to edit it in your shellstyle

Technically you can just cover it up using a opaque command bar image. That's what they do in Windows 7.

I just don't understand why there is active/inactive options for bottom and top but not for left and right. I was hoping to have the inactive borders as opaque which works fine for top and bottom.

It's possible. I messed up when making the XMLs. It's been fixed for a very long time. There just hasn't been an update since then where I could drop it to Ave.

Aha. Thanks

You need to add a solid background that matches that of the scrollbar.

Can you provide a screenshot?

I never could get it to do that.

composited:bool
textglowsize:int
glowcolor:color
textshadowcolor:color

Hmm. Contact me via live (thepanda@live.com) so I can help you better. It's difficult for me to be on this site.

What are the properties you added?

Thanks Panda. :-)
I found the background but i didn't found the glyph, i searched all the values of the search with the word "glyph".

Try searching properties. It shows more.

[Taskbar & Tray Notify > Taskband > Aero > Toolbar:GroupMenu]

Those glyphs are hard to find. Use the search. Search values for glyph and you should find it.

The background is located at Taskbar & Tray Notify > Taskband > Aero > Toolbar:GroupMenu

Yes, you can do it via shellstyle. In shellstyle's UIFile you can find styles for ech type of maps (document, photo, music, etc.) You should edit <if id="atom(listview)"> or <if id="atom(clientviewhost)"> sections (sorry, I don't remember exactly) and the background property should call the dtb(resbmp(...)) functionpair. You should add the desired images as new resource to the dll and with dtb()
you can load them.

If you define separate images for ech map types then they will load dynamically navigating between maps and user can recognize what type of map is opened currently.

It'd be better to use dtb() and link it to the MSStyles that way you can use sizing margins. In other words, yes it's possible.

Lists, Menus & Tabs > Menu > PopUpGutter

Offtopic: Congrats on getting the 1,000th post here at the VSB forum.

Taskbar & Tray Notify > Taskbar > Basic > Taskbar    =\

I have no idea where aero's is =(

Inherited.

So you're saying that sometimes the dialog just goes away on its own?

http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=227.0
http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=208.0
http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0

Would be nice to hear Ave's thoughts on these, maybe you can relay it to him.

Microsoft's bugs can't be fixed by Ave. The second one I noticed and I'll ask Ave about it. Third one I'd be willing to bet it's inherited.

Oh, it's nice to have a blog but it would be nice to also have a section here for bugs and errors for users to report.

Have a sticky for common mistakes, errors, and fixes.  And the rest of the threads there will be for bugs so Ave can find them easily and maybe he and others can acknowledge them.

I have sent Ave a bug report but never received a reply.  He was very prompt at first, but maybe he missed my last e-mail.  That's why I've been posting the bugs in other areas.
Is he very busy with life at the moment?

Would be nice to know what he's up to 

Bugs such as?

Hello all. As you may know development and research isn't really spoken much around here. If you want to know what goes on development and research wise then check out the blog! http://blog.vistastylebuilder.com/

We'll be updating it so you can find out what's going on behind the scenes or what we've found to aid in the customization process. Hope you enjoy reading it and we'd love feedback.

I replaced every Fading element with a 100% transparent 1px PNG file, reloaded the theme, and it doesn't seem to affect the minimize/restore animations.

My minimize/restore animations are still there.

Are you sure this is what it changes?

Yeah. I tested it completely.

It's showing it there for me. But only after I reselect the <1> so it can re-read.

Rafael is aware of the issue, as I emailed him about it, but I think it may be an issue with VistaStyleBuilder, perhaps the msstyles file which is written isn't totally compatible.  And its not the running of the style itself, its just when that style is applied, and you restart the computer, it crashes uxtheme.dll when you try to login and you are thrown back to the login screen.

I activated the guest account so I can restore the patched uxtheme and then log back in.  By the by, has anyone tested VSB with build 7022, which seems to be the new 7000 for people.  I am probably going to wait till RC before changing my build.

Runnin 22 now with a custom theme

has anyone made a VS with VSB 1.3 on build 7000 ?

i'm working on a patched x86 system and i'm experiencing heavy problems like permanent re-log-ons and crashes when testing the theme.

and the changes i made are minimal and no problem at all on vista.

I made 3. The only difference is that I don't used Rafael's patches and I'm on x64.

If you want to remove the bottom right imae next time, open shellstyle.dll with restorator and remove the FTR files inside it. That will do it. You can also replace the FTR's with those located in shell32.dll but as far as i know it is not possible to create custom FTR animations.

You've seen Longhorn Fusion's Beta II 

Seems like a good idea