How did you do this? Does it basically make editing the shellstyle useless?

Why not make that image 6px wide?  Just leave two columns of pixels blank on the right side.

What are all the things connected to the calendar?

PM sent

My calendar floats up into the air!  Whenever my mouse hovers over the date ("Friday, June 19, 2009"), it moves upwards!  Why is this happening?!?



I know it's a problem with the VS because others VS's don't do this when I apply them.  Please help!!!

[A]

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

Anyone know how to hide the two shutdown/lock buttons on the start menu? jg-visuals did it on his base style. http://jg-visuals.deviantart.com/art/Base-124067665



On his visual style those three buttons have been replaced with just one button.  Any ideas?  He hasn't responded to any of my messages.

Anyone know where the white dot is?

Also does anyone know where the arrow next to "recent items" and "administrative tools" on the start menu is?

the blue shadow and the white vertical line are both in the Shell/Previewpane/1/1 (one file with margins),

for the folders arrow i suggest you are using photoshop (which destroys the Alphachannel in the BMP). i recommend GIMP (32bit BMP ability with alpha channel) to recolor or to set the opacy down to 1-2%, so it is transparent in the final VS

Thanks!

But for the arrow, I don't use photoshop I use Paint.net (it says it auto-detects the bit depth when I save the bmp).  It's not transparent I just color the whole thing (245, 244, 244).

Where is that white dot?



Red: Where is this blue line?
Blue: I know it's hard to see, but there is a 1px white line.  Where is it?



And finally, this arrow has been troubling me.  Whenever I change it to be the same color as the background (245, 244, 244), the shellstyle bugs out and the whole left side of the explorer window is cut off ("favorite links" and the "folders" thing goes away).  What am I doing wrong?

I'm sorry I did not say in windows explorer. Are they in the same dlls?

Yes, 2 and 3 are in browseui.dll

Wheres the image/property for the background of a read-only editbox?

hm I've seen the small windows in Paint.net if you have that.

Also the help button is on the controls preview, right next to the close button.

Found them.  They were all somewhere in fonts and system metrics.

New Questions:



lime green: Where is that part of the adress box?
aqua: Where is this menu?



lime green: Background color?
aqua: Where is the background color behind the text located?

red: Where is that darker part on the menu?  It goes away when I mouse-over it.
bright-green: Where is this white part?
aqua: Where is that dark line coming from?

Thanks in advance! =D

Well I know I was the one to think of the wiki and I know that it hasn't been used at all.

But I think a good thing to have would be entries for each part (don't know how else to word it) of a visual style.  For example, what the heck is QueryBuilder? TryHarder? Communications Menu?  I am thinking that for each entry, there could be an image of where it is and a little description.

This would be very helpful for newcomers who don't know what all the names mean.  I know there are several people on this site who could help out with this.

This all looks very useful, however could someone reword how to use it for a noob?  Like what do I edit in the shellstyle and what do I edit in .msstyle?

Also, what's the best program to use for editing this sort of stuff?

 8)

Sorry for budging in, but where can I change HEIGHT:SIZE to 0 (in order to get a 22px taskbar)? I searched for it and still cannot find it.

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

I have no idea where aero's is =(

For some reason every start button I design is never placed in the right spot.  On the startbutton image I design the button to be in the middle of the taskbar, but for some reason it moves to the top.  So I move the image down but somehow it stays in the same place - back to the top of the taskbar.  No matter how I design it it stays in the same place.  What's wrong?

Just set the sizing margins in a way that doesn't stretch the picture.

I'm having trouble getting my taskbar to be 22px high...  I've change HEIGHT:SIZE to 0, and my taskbar image is 22px high, but it still reverts to being 24px high.  Can anyone help me with this?

Any updates?

Ah sorry, I misunderstood 

The latest VSB version is located at the same download link given in the very first e-mail you receive after buying VSB.

EDIT: For clarity.

Every download link is the same.  Did you even check the version number?

Not sure where else to post this..but iaven't yet received an email regarding the updated version.
Had to reformat recently, and didn't save the original email with the download link  Saved the install file and serial number..so I could reinstall after reformat.
Would really like to update to the new version if I can 

It's the same link, so you are up to date

The captiontext:color doesn't change anything 

Ok well I have found the divider, but the other two still remain undiscovered.

anyone?

Usually connecting to a wireless network takes some time, and it uses indeterminate, I think.

1) Blue: where is that divider?
2) Red: Where is that selection image/color?

Thanks

EDIT: Also, how do you get rid of the start menu subtext (Internet and Email)?

[shellstyle.dll]

um, you modify the shellstyle.dll that's in your theme folder.

Say your visual style is called "style1".  Then it would be in
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\style1\Shell\NormalColor\shellstyle.dll

2) For this you have to edit the UIFile in the shellstyle.dll
     Find <if id="atom(ProperTreeLinksHeader)">, and edit the background and foreground colors (they are in argb format).  Foreground is the text color and background is the background color.
3) Folder button: Explorer and Shell>Shell>ProperTree><1>

did Saarineames remove the separator too?

Where is that horizontal separator?  I thought it was in explorer and shell>shell>previewpane><4> but I guess not.

There has been two bots/spammers already.  If anyone is linking to these forums, I think they need to stop.  This place should only be for people with VSB.  Just my opinion.

Thanks.

BTW, how do you guys figure out where all that minor stuff is?

Where are those white lines that are above and below the vertical separator? (each 1px tall,  I know its hard to see)

When I change the color of the vertical separator the explorer background changes back to the white color instead of the color I had it previously.  Does anyone know why this is happening?

EDIT: NVM, I just remembered that VSB doesn't apply the shellstyle.  It's all good.