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81  Help / Windows 10 / Re: Ten on: October 03, 2014, 07:57:28 pm
Does this change the text color as well?

I have managed to get it all working and the start menu aside from changing the text color.
82  Help / Windows 10 / Re: Ten on: October 03, 2014, 05:26:21 pm
Can you make a list of what you changed for the jump list mate or even a style hack would nice.
83  Help / Windows 10 / Re: Ten on: October 01, 2014, 10:21:08 pm
Don't speak too soon mate, still another year before it reaches final development, who know what may change by then.
84  Help / Windows 10 / Re: Ten on: October 01, 2014, 07:11:51 pm
Good to see we still have a working WSB for 10 at least, have you tried OldNewExplorer or SIB to see if they function at all?
85  Tips and Visual Styles / StyleHacks / Re: [Win7/8] Simple gutterless context menus (keeps icons!) on: September 29, 2014, 05:27:08 am
not sure if it would work but maybe try making the vertical track larger to compensate for the white area.
86  Tips and Visual Styles / StyleHacks / Re: [Win7/8(?)] Simple gutterless context menus (keeps icons!) on: September 26, 2014, 06:31:20 pm
Doesn't work on 8/8.1
87  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Need Help Anyone! on: September 23, 2014, 04:10:54 am
glad you got it all sorted out mate, I could have done it all for you but I think it's best to try and learn these things for yourself Smiley
88  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Need Help Anyone! on: September 22, 2014, 02:21:41 pm
Thats what virtual machines are there for, if your not sure of something try it in a VM first and make sure your happy you know what your doing before trying it on your real machine.
89  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Need Help Anyone! on: September 22, 2014, 12:24:26 pm
Those areas have never been in the msstyles by default in Windows 7 or 8, the only way to change those images is by replacing them in the shell32.dll (not advisable on 8) or Theme Resource changer (Windows 7 only) or by using OldNewExplorer and adding a modified shell32.dll UI file with custom classes and modifying your class maps or in the latest version of WSB add class and adding the new custom class, in my case I have done this and added 4 new custom classes to the UI files and class maps in WSB in the following locations.

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPane Background
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPane Shine Layer
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPaneTop Background
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPaneTop Shine Layer

UI files needed to edit and add to the shellstyle.dll are 23 and 24 but you can not do this as UI files in the shell32.dll are mostly in binary and you would have to convert them back to xml if you want to edit them, I have a tool from Tyhiy to do this but he has forbidden me from sharing it with anyone as it is too powerful and dangerous so I will just supply you with the modified UI files I have already.

For the custom class maps open your class map in notepad++ and search for NavigationPane then change it so it looks like this.

Code:
<part id="1" name="NavigationPane">
<states>
<state id="1" name="NavigationPane Background"/>
<state id="2" name="NavigationPane Shine Layer"/>
<state id="3" name="NavigationPaneTop Background"/>
<state id="4" name="NavigationPaneTop Shine Layer"/>
</states>
</part>
<part id="2" name="ContentPane">
<states>
<state id="1" name="Branding Image"/>
</states>
<states>
<state id="2" name="Genuine Image"/>
</states>
</part>

Also I just remembered that these custom UI files also remove the default Windows branding in system properties and allows you to add your own to match whatever theme your using in the msstyles.

the location for that will be.

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPane > Branding Image

and also if you want to add a second image like the genuine image from Windows 7 (Removed from Windows 8) add it in

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPane > Genuine Image

Just remember with these navigation pane images that if you are not going to add the shine layer to add a ENUM > BGType > None property to those 2 shine layer locations

Another place you should add BGType > None is in Explorer & Shell > Explorer > CommandModule > Library Title otherwise you get a white border under the top navigation pane.

90  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Stable version, avoid black screen, etc... on: September 21, 2014, 06:43:10 pm
That is a possibility because I have had WSB crash many times when testing and it continues to run the test theme after the crash, I have always changed back to another theme though before I start testing again, personally I never work on my themes in the theme directory, I have always worked with them in folders on the desktop and I honestly would prefer it if there was an option to disable the 2nd prompt after every save to use the theme now, I never want to use the theme now, I will create my complete theme and .theme file and then place it in the theme directory when I am done and apply it from the personalization menu.
91  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Stable version, avoid black screen, etc... on: September 21, 2014, 12:50:42 am
Uxstyle doesn't patch any files and runs as a service to bypass the theme digital signature and should not cause any black screen bug, I have never had a problem with the black screen bug since I started using it when it first became available, your problem would probably be from saving your theme and applying it from outside the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes directory or you are mistaken and have used another patching program that does rely on patching system files to allow custom themes.

You are correct about needing a more stable WSB though, this latest version seems to crash far more often, instant closes at any random time while doing something, allot of the times it will also destroy the test msstyles as well giving you no backup if you have not saved recently, also the other problem with WSB controls going white and freezing is still a big problem and happens just as often as the instant close bug I am now seeing but at least with that bug that requires you to kill WSB through Task Manager you are still able to retrieve your latest changes in the C:\ProgramData\Windows Style Builder\Testing directory.
92  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Glyph Image Scale on: September 16, 2014, 06:34:11 pm
Yeah no worries mate, open the shellstyle.dll with Restorator to remove or modify any of the extra UI files included.
93  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Glyph Image Scale on: September 16, 2014, 02:53:46 pm
Well first of all you would need to be using OldNewExplorer (ONE) and a custom shellstyle.dll containing the modified properties for explorerframe UI files and also a way of adding the new properties so modifying your class maps, if you have already done all that then you can add the explorer folder background image to the new location of your choosing like mine for example is located at Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Folder background

94  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: text color settings startisback on: September 15, 2014, 11:15:10 am
Think it's hard coded in his UI, I remember looking for this myself.
95  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Glyph Image Scale on: September 14, 2014, 03:54:33 am
Found out that this trick can be used in lots of places, the start menu for example, context menus and the main explorer window, you can also add another property that will stop images growing more then the original size when used in explorer

Int > TrueSizeStretchMark not sure what the measurement is in but setting a size of 250 seems to work best on a 1080p monitor, setting it to 200 will fail to maintain the max image size in max windows.

96  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: after porting win7 theme on: September 09, 2014, 05:09:49 pm
Yes always good to know details and then we can help you, unless you are using my custom class maps you may have problems anyway because you need to add a text color property to Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ProperTree > Navigation Text or you will have a white blank explorer window.

Also you will notice that control panel navigation panes will change to colors defined by the gradient colors used in Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane, again if you are using my custom class maps you will have the following locations to set the images you want.

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPane Background
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPane Shine Layer
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPaneTop Background
Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > NavigationPane > NavigationPaneTop Shine Layer

Another thing you can do with my shellstyle and custom class maps is add background images to explorer view types

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Folder background

You can also change the branding image in system properties

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPane > Branding Image

and if you want to add a second image of your liking or the genuine image that was found in Windows 7 add it to the following

Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPane > Genuine Image

Not sure if any of this will help you at all but that covers some of the changes that can be done in the msstyles, there are also other changes that will take effect using my shellstyle related to other UI files I have added and altered.
97  Tips and Visual Styles / StyleHacks / Re: (Windows 8.1) Details Pane Glyph Stylehack on: August 30, 2014, 11:16:43 am
Thanks for the style Hack mate Smiley
98  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Glyph Image Scale on: August 30, 2014, 04:02:40 am
Well I never even thought about doing this before so thanks for the idea, I figured out what to add to get it working right.

ENUM > TrueScallingType > Size

BOOL > UniformSizing > Tick

99  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Control Panel (Windows 8.1 Update 1) on: August 25, 2014, 03:21:21 pm
That must of been one of my older shellstyle's then, i have now moved all those properties to a new area and restored Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Selected Property back to default.



Actually I have a question for 3am, what property is it to adjust the shadow under the image dimensions, I notice mine is very heavy compared to yours.
100  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Control Panel (Windows 8.1 Update 1) on: August 24, 2014, 08:05:47 am
Can you explain a little better what it is I am looking at, aside from one of the explorer backgrounds being a different color?
101  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Idea for an app that applies Windows 8.1 themes properly! on: August 22, 2014, 06:55:04 am
I have had the same thoughts on this, would love if there was a way for themes to be set properly for end users.
102  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Control Panel (Windows 8.1 Update 1) on: August 18, 2014, 03:15:00 am
No I don't think so being an icon. I just disappear it Tongue

btw I changed the color of the separators by just changing bitmap 41 in the shellstyle BITMAP folder. Here I changed it to black:




Is that where it was lol, oh well now there is 2 ways of changing it  Tongue
103  Help / Windows 7 / Re: Where can I find this separator line ? on: August 17, 2014, 06:35:13 pm
Edit UIfile 24 in the shell32.dll and look for <if id="atom(taskseparator)"> and change to

Code:
      <if id="atom(taskseparator)">
        <element margin="rect(8rp,0rp,0rp,0rp)" background="themeable(dtb(CONTROLPANEL,17,1),'')" width="2rp" height="15rp"/>
      </if>

Then you can change the color of the separator in Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPaneLine
104  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Control Panel (Windows 8.1 Update 1) on: August 17, 2014, 06:30:01 pm
For the white separator bitmap image I have changed to Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPaneLine with the shell32.dll UIFile 24 line 216 in mine.

Code:
      <if id="atom(taskseparator)">
        <element margin="rect(8rp,0rp,0rp,0rp)" background="themeable(dtb(CONTROLPANEL,17,1),'')" width="2rp" height="15rp"/>
      </if>

I have also included my latest shellstyle.dll but be careful with this as I have added new properties to the standard UIFile 1 that if not added in the msstyles will make this fail to work and you will end up with blank explorer windows, mainly I have added a proper tree text property in  Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ProperTree > Navigation Text that you will need to add before testing.
105  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Control Panel (Windows 8.1 Update 1) on: August 17, 2014, 09:51:58 am
Yeah that's because I also added that to the msstyles for easy access in Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Control Panel > ControlPanel > ContentPane > Branding Image

and also the genuine image or whatever you want to put there was brought back.

106  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Start Screen PopUp Border on: May 13, 2014, 03:31:02 am
Nice find but I seem to have problems with the white area still unless I increase the Lists, Menus, & Tabs > Immersive Start Menu > PopUpItem > border size to at least 25, tried on a new style as well and same result.
107  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Start Screen PopUp Border on: April 13, 2014, 03:27:57 am
Works for me but there is still a white bit top and bottom that I cant change.

108  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Start Screen PopUp Border on: April 12, 2014, 07:47:47 am
You will need to change the color in system metrics.

Inner color: Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > BtnFace

Inner Shadow Bottom: Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > BtnShadow

Bottom Shadow: Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > DkShadow3D

Inner Top shadow: Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > BtnHighlight

Top Shadow: Fonts, Colors, & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics > Light3D

109  Main / Future Concepts and Ideas / Re: StyleScripts on: April 02, 2014, 12:40:17 am
I think it's a good idea but maybe as a future update, i would rather see the current feature set complete, the sooner you can release a RTM build of 1.6 the sooner you guys can start developing 1.7 and make money again as current support only extends to 1.6
110  Other / Other / Re: Increase font size in tree view? on: March 01, 2014, 03:01:29 am
I did as you suggest and, while it increased the size of the font, it didn't increase the size of the space allotted to the font, so it gets cut off. As I can see it does in the example you attached. Any idea how to fix that?



That will only happen while testing if the font is changed, but if you open another instance of WSB wile testing with the large font then it should display correctly.
111  Other / Other / Re: 3 Questions on: February 14, 2014, 01:19:39 am
The good news is that Windows 8.1 doesn't have the WEI any more so no need to worry about it any more.
112  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Unknowns on: December 15, 2013, 09:18:17 pm
Nope not yet, will let you know if I find any.
113  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Taskbar Settings on: December 15, 2013, 02:27:44 pm
Thanks, that was it.  I set the sizing type for the taskband to stretch, and it now looks correct.

Instead of making your image stretch you can change the height of the taskband by adjusting the content margins for the top and bottom and it will adjust the height of the taskbar Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > TaskItemButton
114  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Window title background - 8.1 preview on: December 11, 2013, 11:42:37 pm
Ok thank you very much! Is there an option to make my theme non-transparent? I don't want the transparency anyway OR to remove the Text and background completely (that would be an option to me)?

Yes you can remove the text completely if you use a blank font.
115  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: OldNewExplorer on: November 28, 2013, 05:30:46 am
Are these UIFILE  in the shell32.dll?

Thanks
Jerry

Thought you may like the UI files from Windows 8.1 instead, they have been converted from Binary to text with a tool I got from Tihiy called duib2xml.exe but I am not allowed to give this to anyone, if you guys want it then you will have to ask him about it yourselves, I think this tool may be too powerful in the wrong hands though so he might say no.
116  Windows Style Builder / Bug Reports / Re: Windows 8.1 WSB 1.5.5.6 Critical Crash on: November 28, 2013, 01:08:12 am
I was using it yesterday and it froze up, I had to kill it in Task manager, will give this one a good test run now, hopefully there will be no more crashes or lockups, also noticing some bugs with the image not showing and some that seem to be cut off on the last version, will be nice when you can get that undo/redo list populated as well with the ribbon enabled.
117  Windows Style Builder / Bug Reports / Re: WSB 1.5.5.7 Bug reports on: November 27, 2013, 06:40:41 am
No worries, thanks for the update Smiley
118  Windows Style Builder / Bug Reports / WSB 1.5.5.7 Bug reports on: November 26, 2013, 09:06:26 pm
On Windows 8 with the Ribbon turned off there is no Undo Redo buttons, Windows 7 and 8.1 work fine.
119  Windows Style Builder / Bug Reports / Re: Color searching problems on: November 25, 2013, 02:48:58 am
Actually I have another bug that is not the same but it happens when you search the color property, you can not use copy or paste for the color properties, not sure if it's the same for all properties when using search.

120  Help / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Re: Help Importing/Upgrading Windows 7 Themes to Windows 8 on: November 24, 2013, 07:22:49 pm
Seeing you are on 8.1 and using the latest Beta I'd recommend making a copy of 8.1 Aero msstyles and shellstyle, rename it, put them in a theme folder, move it to resources/themes and then start importing everything you can from your 7 theme manually. It's the best and safest way to go. 8.1 msstyles is very different from 7 msstyles.

Yeah he has Windows 8.1 but he is trying to update the themes for 8.1 on Windows 7 as he mentioned and that is what his problem will be, your right though, still better to do a manual update in some cases, although I had it work pretty well with a few of my themes.

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I imported the theme, saved it, and then tried it on my Windows 8.1 machine.  It doesn't work.  I'm using Windows Style Builder on my Windows 7 machine.  Does that matter?
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