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Tips and Visual Styles => Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: satukoro on July 29, 2009, 11:05:57 am



Title: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: satukoro on July 29, 2009, 11:05:57 am
I modified my shellstyle.dll to use elements (such as window background color and text color) from the visual style it is placed with. This is especially useful for people who create dark themes on a regular basis, etc, etc.

I uploaded at deviantart: http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Universal-shellstyle-dll-131315497


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: iffy525 on July 29, 2009, 10:21:47 pm
How did you do this? Does it basically make editing the shellstyle useless?


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: satukoro on July 29, 2009, 10:25:37 pm
Yes, I guess it does make editing the shellstyle manually obsolete. The only thing that you would need to change are image 121 and 122 to suit the theme.


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: K-Johnson on July 30, 2009, 12:24:39 am
Nice one :)

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

He got rid of the local definition which forces it to use a global variable linked to the MSSTYLES file.


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: mdtauk on August 06, 2009, 12:09:20 am
I modified my shellstyle.dll to use elements (such as window background color and text color) from the visual style it is placed with. This is especially useful for people who create dark themes on a regular basis, etc, etc.

I uploaded at deviantart: http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Universal-shellstyle-dll-131315497


Will you be making Windows 7 versions, or does any shellstyle.dll work with any Windows version.  Also do you need a template msstyles to work with it, with all the additional entries?


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: satukoro on August 06, 2009, 12:30:52 am
Well, no, it will not work for Windows 7. When I get/install Windows 7, I will create one. Also, it should work for all themes designed Windows Vista.


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: mdtauk on August 06, 2009, 01:01:08 am
Is it possible to make the same changes for the Windows 7 Start Button which is not in the msstyles, and for the back and next buttons which are also not in the msstyles?


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: Panda X on August 06, 2009, 01:47:45 am
Is it possible to make the same changes for the Windows 7 Start Button which is not in the msstyles, and for the back and next buttons which are also not in the msstyles?
No because neither are defined in any DUIXML file throughout the system.


Title: Re: [Resource] Universal Shellstyle.dll
Post by: mdtauk on August 06, 2009, 01:50:56 am
No because neither are defined in any DUIXML file throughout the system.

Thanks for that, I guess a pure msstyles is never possible, oh well...