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41  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Reduce space on top of Start Menu on: November 23, 2008, 11:43:12 am
Quote from: "sweatyfish"
Okay, I disabled User Pic and chose the 34px border on the top stylehack to get it working.

It decreased the space on the right.

Any ideas how to shrink these two spaces?


1. perchaps you have to change the content margins of Poglist on basic, set them forexample from 9, 2, 11, 0  to 9, 2, 3, 0 .
 
2. i have not done the experiment to use as a true size image the places list.
 Anyway, the vertical distance is changing otherwise when you do right clik to your takbar, properties, start menu, customize, number of recent progrms to display ---> if you choose a small number, vertical area 2 would be smaller.



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42  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Help with some stylehacks on: November 22, 2008, 07:57:50 pm
Quote from: "DJ Gx"

First 2 questions"

about the 1st:
for eliminating the Expando Sizer line on the down side of Navigation pane see how i did to  http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/eliminating-ExpandoSizerline-98110684

2nd: see how is changing Text color in the Explorer toolbar change info , 4.7 Info Bar Text Colour (Shellstyle) http://http://ukintel.deviantart.com/art/Vista-Hex-Editing-Tutorial-0-7-60297439

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??? ????? ?????? ??????????? ????? ?? ????? ??? hex editing  ??? ?????  ? ukintel ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ????? ???????????, ??? ? Panda X ???? ??????? ?????????  ???  http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8.

?????? ??? ????? ???????????  ???? ? moin moin  http://http://wiki.deskmodder.de/wiki/index.php/Vista_VisualStyle_bearbeiten ????????? ??, ???? Google, ??? ?? ????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????, ??? ????? ?? shellstyle.dll. [ ---->  ? 2 ??????? = Text color in the Explorer toolbar change info ]
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43  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Menu background color on: November 22, 2008, 11:22:42 am
Quote from: "sweatyfish"
- Idas

To change the text color on the menu bar with mouseover, try this http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33

Quote from: "psygn"

By default, Vista uses the black text color even under highlight in the toolbar/menubar, which isn't bad but it isn't consistent with the rest of Vista's menu's and isn't the best choice for optimum contrast and visibility.


This was something that bugged me and I had trouble finding it as I assumed it was in the 'Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics' section, but today I found it!
It is modifiable under "Toolbars, Headers and Rebar > Toolbars & Headers > Toolbar > <default>".  Change the "HOT" and "PRESSED" TEXTCOLOR:COLOR property to white or your desired highlighted text color.

Here is the result (FYI, I modified the overlay color in the preview):



thank you sweatyfish for reply and post link,  thank you psygn for your search and finding, thank you Spitzen for your kindness.

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44  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Menu background color on: November 22, 2008, 01:47:54 am
Quote from: "Spitzen"
Hi,

does anybody know how I can change the menu background color in VSB? I mean the red marked path of the following screenshot:


1.for applications, like photoshop [active and inactive image] , List, menu, Tabs > menu > bar background
also on  List, menu, Tabs > menu > bar item    is the button  that is using when mouse over, pressed etc also you can change the text color for mouse over , pressed etc

2. for explorer windows, you can find it on :   toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar > Rebar    
and on : toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar > Default > background

there are also other 2 menu background images on  toolbars headers and rebar [ toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar > browser tabbar ,  toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar >Nav bar> basic > base > Non top most > background ].

also  :  Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Explorer Bar > Rebar > Background

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TO AVE  and to Panda x : please is there a way possible [any chance] to add  different mouse over text color on explorer = i mean on elements exist on toolbars headers and rebar section ( for example : toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar > Rebar    and on  toolbars headers and rebar > Rebar > Default > background )  or a button image ?
 [on 1. applications as i have written it is possible but on explorer section ?]



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45  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Start Menu help on: November 21, 2008, 01:45:37 am
Quote from: "KoL"
hey guys, I'm having some problems with the start menu. I have 3 questions.

1. Why I get that white background in the All Program image? The image doesn't have white.
2. Can we change the logoff buttons?
3. It is possible to change the text color of search bar? If I want to do the search bar black can I change the text color to white?
1. change the   Start > Start Menu > Panels > Basic > More ProgramsTAB  , make the white areas of the image black, and do your designs for hot etc  on each of your positions there also add a propertie, for example ON NORMAL add color : textcolor and then chose lets say white, same add propertie of  textcolor : color on hot etc

2. microsoft had decide on vista to make our life difficult, so even if there are  logoff buttons on the mstyle, in action, those are in use from the system are on the explorer , so you must modify  explorer [C:\Windows\Explorer]

3. Yes it is, [i have found this for you, as because to my visual styles, i have done this via hex editing a long time ago, so  those i found here are  elements concentrated from PandaX http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8
Search Bar Active Text Colour [Aero] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Aero > Normal > Active (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Inactive Text Colour [Aero] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Aero > Normal > InActive (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Max Active Text Colour [Aero] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Aero > Max > Active (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Max Inactive Text Colour [Aero] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Aero > Max > InActive (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Active Text Colour [Basic] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Basic > Normal > Active (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Inactive Text Colour [Basic] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Basic > Normal > InActive (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Max Active Text Colour [Basic] || Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Basic > Max > Active (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
Search Bar Max Inactive Text Colour [Basic]|| Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Search > Edit > Basic > Max > Active (TEXTCOLOR:COLOR)
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when i post, i have not seen that invaderjohn had already answered.

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my site http://http://windowsedge.com/Zeus/
46  Help / Windows Vista / Re: background colors in explorer on: November 18, 2008, 11:32:53 pm
see some answers i did to similar questions http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41
47  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Start menu margins on: November 17, 2008, 04:26:22 pm
as it is more hard to explain all the parameters i have changed on vista style builder [only for the menu width], download this new example i made on vsb.

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download new example :
48  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Start menu margins on: November 17, 2008, 11:29:57 am
Quote from: "DJ Gx"
How can i change the start menu margins?
I used the style hacks but i can make the left side bigger ether the right side of the start menu.

I want to make my start menu size like Windows 7 size.

See this image

How  much pixels is Windows 7 start menu left /right size ? [ as i dont like much the form / sizes of aero microsoft use , i dont know much about it], anyway i made a quiq modification for you, though must changed also othr parameters likw the search of start menu etc

this is just an example that you can do it via hex editing.[so i made this visual style as an example with hex editing , for see how this parameters changed to ista style builder]

On vista style builder go to Start > Panels > Basic > Prog list  >  and change the parameter DEFAULTPANESIZE : Rect  from  0, 0, 261, 383  to a value you like .
also change all other elements exist to the Basic section and have on their  DEFAULTPANESIZE : Rect the third value --,--261,--  as 261 , so chane that to all with that you want.

??  ??????????  ??? ???????????? ? microsoft , ??? ????? ???  ????????????? ???, ?????? ????????? ?? ??? ????? ???  ???? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ????????????????.
49  Help / Windows Vista / Re: 4 questions on: November 13, 2008, 06:27:30 pm
Quote from: "Panda X"
Quote from: "idas"
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i have failed to make right click translucent, thou you  can using 3rd party freeware application like yzshadow http://http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/utilities/yzshadow.html  [i have tried to experiment with alfa threshold,but failed]
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What all did you try with the translucent context menu? I think it should be possible in some way.

Eeven if i used a non square shape when i applied it the corners of it becomes white. i tried to use alfa threshold, i failed.
look what hapenned if you use semitransparent images to popupborders and popupbackground.

50  Help / Windows Vista / Re: 4 questions on: November 12, 2008, 10:15:59 pm
1: i have not much time to search your first asking question. for searching the problem i should have your work for searching it. but unfortunately i have not time. thats why i didnt respond.
2. adding a property , is just what it say, we add something new for having something different to the image or area we added, for example we add a text size bigger, or a different text color etc
3.  http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=37
4.i have failed to make right click translucent, thou you  can using 3rd party freeware application like yzshadow http://http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/utilities/yzshadow.html  [i have tried to experiment with alfa threshold,but failed]

You have not be disapointed, i was months without respond, also some of my questions have not answered after 2  years hex editing and searching.
51  Help / Windows Vista / Re: transparent Start button appears doubled - bug? on: November 08, 2008, 08:30:44 pm
Quote from: "sunbeam2000"
made a transparent start button..

i it seems that the buttons appers twice in different sizes at the same place..

can't fix it..



just resize your overall height of image, and change the second position 1 pixel .
52  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Forcing higher DPI window button glyphs on: November 08, 2008, 08:26:47 pm
Quote from: "geoken"
Anyone know how to do this.

I just did it accidentally, and I'm trying to figure out what I did.

have you change the text size font to a large scale forexample from 8 to 12 or bigger, also this can be if you change, Fonts,Colors and SystemMetrics > Fonts and SystemMetrics > captionbarwidth/height:size   set a big number forexample 28.[there are many ways to do, the problem is when you want to control this kind of new sizes to specific areas].
see my comment on http://http://stylehacks.deviantart.com/art/Favorite-Links-Gradient-101822134
53  Help / Windows Vista / To Ave : can be transported code to explorer?[mouseOverText] on: November 08, 2008, 11:12:16 am
To Ave : [using my modified shellstyle.dll FOR VSB  http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20  -----> for having values of text color taken from mstyle and not shelltyle.dll] i see this when we use the : explorer and shell > explorer > tree item > tree item  then  we can have if we want different text color over folders of the explorer tree,  
 Is any posibility for using [transporting? merging? or whatever] this kind of code to  explorer and shell > explorer > ListVIEw  >  ListItem for having different hot and hot selected text colors as on explorer tree?





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54  Help / Windows Vista / Re: remove left right border completley on: November 05, 2008, 10:21:56 am
Quote from: "invaderjohn"
no it doesn't work.. ive already tried it since vista uses blur on all aero transparent parts (which i also don't want ><)
so if i make that bars transparent they just become blurry. ive seen a cupple of themes where ppl do that but it doesn't look that good.

also.. is there any way to make the close button to use a smaller caption size? so that u can make the minimize and maximize buttons closer to the right?

not in aero [not possible having closer and having smaller distance between the close, minimize and maximize buttons, since now, as it is hard coded.must be found the code condition first.then it would be possible ]

u can do 2 different things  for the size blur when deleting size images.[for aero only this]

1. in the place where you had the pixels of the image you  could add gray/black shadow, like that exist around the normal aero microsoft style[i have done this eperiment and i lent it and you see it on patrickgs transformation  pack vista osx 09 visual style i constructed] or

2. the method i usually use on my visual styles [on those that having noborder size] is leaving the blur on sides exist, but i change the values on : right clik to your desktop, select Personalise.
then select first (1) choice 'Window Color and Appearance'. Select enable transparency.
then select on 'color intencity' slider button to the start (full to the left), so there will be with no color as possible.
then select 'SHOW COLOR MIXER' , select second (2) slider 'saturation' button ( full to the left), so there will be with no color as possible.
select the third (3) slider button 'Brightness' (near the middle, or between midle and right, depending from the color of the background wallpaper you use it) so there will be invisible as possible the borders of the windows of the current ' no border style' visual style.
then i use freeware program  YzShadow   http://http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/utilities/yzshadow.html .(my oppinion for working correct is to use it on vista as compatible with windows xp, via right click on YzShadow properties/copatibilities/ run this program in compatibiity mode, select windows xp), for having shadows on sides and bottom, set the right settings and it will work nice.
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see my gallery http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/gallery/
55  Help / Windows Vista / Re: How to change the backgroundcolors of... on: November 04, 2008, 10:26:16 pm
Quote from: "Spitzen"
Thank you very much, I didn't know it is an image color.
But the other thing you've written is very interesting, too.
Btw. It looks like you've changed the alignment of the window title bar to center, is it right?

i have done much of this, before 1 year. i have started analysing vista mstyle from November 2006 with vista rc1 then with rtm, on November 2007 i have realeased my first osx style work for vista [you can see on my gallery how started this and how the progress on code and designing had come.

so via hex editing i have changed also window title bar to center, but only to the basic theme as aero is more stronged hard coded. also to my gallery i have realeased some things working with code http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/gallery/ , here a special aero style shellstyle.dll  http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20 for working and giving benefit to vista style builder.

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My new work is my last and final on vista, so in 1 or at least 2 months will realeased.
I have made about 30 experiments, but there ready about 2 compact color aero versions , and 1 transparent, and a second one transparent with shorter on pixel edges will become if i find time and my eys help me.
Its the only visual style that since now could have vertical separator bigger than 5 pixels, via changed code, also there is no expandosizerline on navigation pane with changed code i made http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/eliminating-ExpandoSizerline-98110684 , having internal borders adding code http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/Creating-internal-borders-89679660 etc etc
I do not allow any modifications of my work.
Made in H E L L A S (= Greece ).
Inspired by ZEUS.
thanks

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56  Help / Windows Vista / Re: How to change the backgroundcolors of... on: November 04, 2008, 07:19:08 pm
Quote from: "JerryNK"

Thanx very much.
i thought we could do everything from VSB without touching .dll's no more. Sorry im new
to this.
By the way i applied the gradient stylehack from panda, but i get a horizontal white area between it and the folder background. Can i get rid of it?

Thanx

 vertical separator ----------> explorer and shell > shell > Preview Pane > 3   extract and design it
57  Help / Windows Vista / Re: How to change the backgroundcolors of... on: November 04, 2008, 06:30:55 pm
Quote from: "Spitzen"
@idas

Can you tell me how I can change the color of the following marked part of the screenshot?
I know how to change the highlight text color, but fonts system metric>highlight color doesn't support the part of the marked screenshot... Hope you can help me!


SEE using modified aero style shellstyle.dll for VSB i made, tutorial http://http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20  , it is taken its value from  Fonts, Colors and System Metrics > Fonts and System Metrics > WINDOWTEXT : COLOR  black text  and  Fonts, Colors and System Metrics > Fonts and System Metrics > highlightTEXT : COLOR

or u mean the blue highlight? [its an image color not a color, on a modified aero mstyle on vista style builder if extracted all images, has number 207 ]
58  Help / Windows Vista / Re: How to change the backgroundcolors of... on: November 04, 2008, 05:20:15 pm
Quote from: "JerryNK"
Thanx
But actually we still dont know were teh red area ("linkfavoriten") is. Nor how we change it...
does anybody know that?
open Shellstyle.dll\UIFILE\1.txt with resoursehacker, search for  <if id="atom(ProperTreeLinksHeader)">
 and change the parameters, foreground [= color text], background  =that you ask.

also : You can adjust margins and insert a bmp into the shellstyle.dll
For example
background="themeable(ARGB(255, 252, 252, 252), window)"
Change to
background="resbmp(123,0,1,0,0,0,0)"

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explanation of resbmp on shellstyle.dll

[ resbmp(a,b,c,d,e,f,g)

a = bitmap resource
b = stretching (1=normal, 3=tile, 6=stretch, 7=32 bit bitmap)
c = transparent color of bitmap not drawn (#rrggbb rr=red, gg=green and bb=blue e.g. #FF00FF= violet)
d = width of bitmap (used when f=0)
e = height of bitmap (used when f=0)
f = sizing (0 = use dimensions defined in d and e or 1 = use bitmap dimensions)
g = mirror (0 = normal and 1 = mirror)  ]

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see my ZEUSosX gallery [also some code solutions included  http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/gallery/  ]
59  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Help positioning caption buttons on: November 04, 2008, 09:09:00 am
Quote from: "iffy525"
UPDATE:  It is actually only partially resolved.  hehe :?

Anyway as you can see in the screenshot that part of the window in the foreground's caption bar is cut off.  Most windows are fine, and display like the window in the background, but some are cutoff like the window in the foreground.  Can anyone explain why this is happening?  Maybe idas?

i have never work serious to the microsoft mess. see now , for u you can do this : how much pixels are cuttig?  what kind of border width u use? 4 or what? does this problem u have appears if u change  border width to 1 or to 5 or to whatever?
[borderwidth changes from:  Fonts,colors and systemmetrics >  Fonts and systemmetrics  >  PaddedBorderWidth : Size

so after do all these experiments for finding in which border size dont cut pixels or cut the less for them, you can do this: if still cut, measure how much pixls and then make your titlebar[active and inactive] those pixels higher[remebr dont resize any titlebar height image if u are not sure what u are doing, just change/design the internal height of the active and inactive images included].
if then there no symmetry, change aGAIN PaddedBorderWidth, unless u find the right for u.

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(also if nosolution after doing all this, you  can resize height of   Close button image  windows and caption butons > basic > closebutton , leaving the internal size of each position as is and add 1 or more empty pixels border height fro up or down or symmetrical , also dont forget to add new bigger sizing margins values)

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60  Help / Windows Vista / Re: How to change the backgroundcolors of... on: November 03, 2008, 08:39:14 pm
Quote from: "Spitzen"
Hi,

I really don't find where I can change the backgroundcolor of the following parts, which are marked in the screenshot. [red=the area above the favorites bar | blue=favorites bar | green=the area below the favorites bar (folder band) | purple=the seperator between favorites bar and explorer content]

Hope you can help me!


about the favourite links see  this,  stylehack made by PandaX  ,Favorite Links Gradient  http://http://stylehacks.deviantart.com/art/Favorite-Links-Gradient-101822134  .
vertical separATOR  ,   ----------> explorer and shell > shell > Preview Pane > 3
about the other 2,a for the background on navigation pane left white area  ----------> explorer and shell > shell > ComonPlaces >  Toolbar
b.about 'Folders', on the navigation pane down side,  ----------> explorer and shell > shell > ProperTree > 1
about the background 0n the main white right area, i know how to change to shellstyle.dll, though i dont know if there is a parameter also which affects on vistastylebuilder [ for changing the shell  see this  how i did  http://http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/Black-background-white-text-81934667    , also you can use http://Ave's vista's Folder background utility  [url=http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/]http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/[/url] [also have a look to   ----------> explorer and shell > shell > PreviewPaneControl > GenericEDIT > Background ]
also for delete that gray line exist to the down side of the navigation pane upper from 'Folders'  see how i did after 2 years searching,   http://eliminating ExpandoSizerline [url=http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/eliminating-ExpandoSizerline-98110684]http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/elimi ... e-98110684[/url]
61  Help / Windows Vista / Re: Three irritating problems! Help appreciated! on: November 01, 2008, 06:56:46 pm
number 1, vertical separator ---------->   explorer and shell > shell > Preview Pane >  3
62  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / Re: How do we move around the min/max/close buttons? on: November 01, 2008, 06:38:49 pm
Quote from: "iffy525"
Well I just tried this and all it did was make the captionbar completely black.  Plus I am not making an aero style its a basic style like slanxp.

JUST go to  Windows and Caption butons > Basic > Caption  extract the image, then dont resize its dimention of height, just design the internal images to be shorter, about 22 pixels height each [there are 2 images , 1 active and 1 inactive], then replace the image , and then  change the sizing margins for example from :  28, 35, 9, 17   to : 28, 35, 17, 9  .

see on screenshot a very quiq modification i did  for window basic, see the buttons[i have also modified the images of the buttons, on  Windows and Caption butons > Basic].




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63  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / Re: How do we move around the min/max/close buttons? on: November 01, 2008, 10:50:41 am
Quote from: "iffy525"
Quote from: "idas"
Quote from: "iffy525"
It isn't a major repositioning but it still is repositioned.
It's his Vista Basic visual style and as you can see the buttons are on the top instead of in the middle.  I've never figured out how to do this...  If you know how though please tell me.
[image]

what i see here is a titlebar of 22pixels i height and not 29 of aero, that means the upper edge of the titlebar is near the midle buttons of basic , [i have done the same to one of my experiments trying to  make a transparent version for aero basic theme].
so its not mooved the buttons, just the titlebar is shorter..
Well I just tried this and all it did was make the captionbar completely black.  Plus I am not making an aero style its a basic style like slanxp.

ofcource suggestions are given for Basic: so select Start  a new Viual Style >

go to   Windows and caption buttons > BASIC >  CAPTION    ------------> EXPORT your image and modified it to be smaller[not change its image size, just design a smaller size, onthe same image size, there are 2 images inside 1 for active and 1 for inactive, make them similar in size,  then go to  Windows and caption buttons > BASIC >  CAPTION ---> sizing margins and change its value (the 3rd value gives the unstreched pixels from the top, so change in a way that will give u unstreched pixels , forexample if your previous values was 28, 35, 9, 17  make them  28, 35, 17, 9 or whatever gives u best result  )

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64  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / Re: How do we move around the min/max/close buttons? on: October 31, 2008, 11:33:09 pm
Quote from: "iffy525"
It isn't a major repositioning but it still is repositioned.
It's his Vista Basic visual style and as you can see the buttons are on the top instead of in the middle.  I've never figured out how to do this...  If you know how though please tell me.

what i see here is a titlebar of 22pixels i height and not 29 of aero, that means the upper edge of the titlebar is near the midle buttons of basic , [i have done the same to one of my experiments trying to  make a transparent version for aero basic theme].
so its not mooved the buttons, just the titlebar is shorter.

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about move around the min/max/close buttons, perchaps Ave could help if he knows how leftsider works or anu other idea.
65  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / Re: modified aero style shellstyle.dll for VSB . on: October 30, 2008, 10:00:32 pm
Quote from: "sunbeam2000"
nice idea with the special shellstyle.dll

im searching for a possibility to add shadow to the title & metadata in shellstyle below the Folderband..

i found out, that you can change the glow density by adding property   INT:Glowintensity(value 0-1000)

this is true  INT : Glowintensity  to Glow text  gives control .
thank you  moinmoin.

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a value of TEXTGLOWSIZE : INT  =  8   and a value of  Glowintensity : INT  = 200 gives a nice effect, if you like glow effect, thou anyone can experiment to give a personal value.

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so adding  Glowintensity  we have :

Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > ------------> add properties

FONT:FONT  [SELECT THE FONT AND FONTSIZE YOU WANT]
COMPOSITED:BOOL (SELECT IT),
TEXTGLOW:BOOL (SELECT IT),
TEXTGLOWSIZE:INT [ USE A NUMBER BIGGER THAN 0],
GLOWCOLOR:COLOR [SELECT THE COLOR U LIKE] and final,  
Glowintensity : INT [ USE A VALUE 0-1000 THAT MAKES BEST CONTRAST BETWEEN THE IMAGE YOU USE AND THE GLOW COLOR YOU USE]

THEN adding properties :
Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > LISITEM --------->

IMAGECOUNT:INT [I HAVE SETTED 6, AS I USE AN IMAGE HAVING 6 VERTICAL POSITIONS EACH FOR ANY POSITION, first for norml, second for hot etc]
IMAGEFILE:IMAGE (INSERTING THE IMAGE)
SIZINGMARGINS:MARGINS [FOREXAMPLE 4, 4, 4, 4]
CONTENTMARGINS:MARGINS [FOREXAMPLE 4, 4, 4, 4]
BGTYPE:ENUM > IMAGEFILE
SIZINGTYPE:ENUM STRECH
IMAGELAYOUT:ENUM VERTICAL

THEN REMOVE, as i have described, all properties included on NORMAL, HOT , SELECTED, DISABLED, SELECTED NOT FOCUS, and HOTSELECTED. of Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > LISITEM

then go to List,menu and Tabs > LISTVIEW > GROOPHEADER and add propertie TEXTGLOWSIZE:INT = 0 because the previous modification on Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > affects also to List,menu and Tabs > LISTVIEW > GROOPHEADER text color, so for not affect we add a propertie of 0 text glow size.

[see ''local disc'' glow text title on screenshot picture, GLOWINTENCITY propertie added]



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But as i preffer the original text colors without glow effects, so i would preffer finding a solution having white text color on host and host selected. (=mouse over and mouse prssed positions)
[ on microsoft Windows clasic we do have white text when mouse over].
so we have to look for, if possible.

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66  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / Re: modified aero style shellstyle.dll for VSB . on: October 30, 2008, 03:29:18 pm
ok. thanks Pandax.
 i have found [today] how to give text glow to the black text, thou not diffeent text color for each position[hot, or hotselected], and not shadowtext enable[perchaps i have done something wrong on this, or not be possible].
 also i dont know how to add more density to the glow, forexample if i use  textglow:int = 6 ,[and glowcolor white] i dont know how to do this glow effect more  compact, if i change the value of this , for example if i use  textglow:int = 2  that does not give me solution , because it ''changes'' the glow's  ''shape'', what i meAN is that [if there is noother solution] i want textglow:int = 6 (for example) ''glow circular shape'' be more white overall.
Also when i use folders on a window, not as icons, but as ''details'' glow text proprtie is not applied to all the words[just only to the word of the name of the folder, not to the date modified, Type etc categories.




see on word Shell of the current folder on image the glow arround it.


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FOR  HAVING  GLOW ON OUR TEXT

adding properties :  Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview >     ------------> add properties COMPOSITED:BOOL  (SELECT IT),  TEXTGLOW:BOOL (SELECT IT), TEXTGLOWSIZE:INT  [ USE A NUMBER BIGGER THAN 0], GLOWCOLOR:COLOR  [SELECT THE  COLOR U LIKE]

THEN adding properties :  Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > LISITEM   --------->    
IMAGECOUNT:INT   [I HAVE SETTED 6, AS I USE AN  IMAGE  HAVING 6 VERTICAL POSITIONS EACH FOR ANY POSITION, first for norml, second for hot etc]
IMAGEFILE:IMAGE  (INSERTING THE IMAGE)
SIZINGMARGINS:MARGINS    [FOREXAMPLE 4, 4, 4, 4]
CONTENTMARGINS:MARGINS   [FOREXAMPLE 4, 4, 4, 4]
BGTYPE:ENUM  >   IMAGEFILE
SIZINGTYPE:ENUM     STRECH
IMAGELAYOUT:ENUM   VERTICAL

THEN REMOVE  all properties included on  NORMAL,  HOT , SELECTED, DISABLED, SELECTED NOT FOCUS, and HOTSELECTED.      of Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview > LISITEM

then go to List,menu and Tabs > LISTVIEW > GROOPHEADER   and add propertie TEXTGLOWSIZE:INT  = 0  because the previous modification on Explorer and Shell > explorer > listview >   affects also to  List,menu and Tabs > LISTVIEW > GROOPHEADER  text color, so for not affect we add a propertie of 0 text glow size.

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thou adding glow on the text is not my style[i dont use as i dont like it]. i would preffer  finding a solution having white text color on host and host selected. [ on microsoft Windows clasic we do have white text when mouse over].

so we have to look for.
67  Tips and Visual Styles / Tips and Tricks / modified aero style shellstyle.dll for VSB . on: October 28, 2008, 03:00:41 am
i have made a modified version of aero style shellstyle.dll for VSB, that make the system taking the text color of a folder on the main window area[normal,hot, selected, disabled, selectednotfocus, hotselected] that exist on VistaStyleBuilder on  Explorer and Shell > Explorer > ListView >List Item  nomore dependent from the shellstyle.dll but taking its propertie from the mstyle ! from Fonts, Colors and System Metrics > Fonts and System Metrics > WINDOWTEXT : COLOR  

so now we can have these kind of modification thou it gives the same text color for normal, hot, selected, disabled, selectednotfocus, hotselected , the benefit is only that textcolor is given now from the msstyle [ from the parameter of  WINDOWTEXT : COLOR ]



 so i need help frm Ave or ANYONE if there will be any adding on code on msstyle so for having enabled the highlight text color for hot and hotselected or anyother solution could be found.

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aLSO i have noticed that on Ave's FolderBackground application we can select [and have via right clik to the main white window aerea folders] having white text with black shadow, is there a way in the mstyle to do that to Explorer and Shell > Explorer > ListView >List Item ?
 if we could not can we make enable having black as the main text color and white shadow arround it ?
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