That thread doesn't take care of my problem (and I did go through it and searched for it as well). I'm aware that I can change the height of the horizontal taskbar, I was talking about this:

Is there any way to thin out the vertical taskbar? Either through content padding, etc.?

This looks like an image issue as far as I know.

Have you looked in "%WinDir%"\Resources\Themes\*Theme Name*\Shell\NormalColor\shellstyle.dll" > UIFILE > 1.txt?

The theme looks great and its very consistent, but if I may make a suggestion, set the cell padding to something like 3px. It feels cramped when text is right against a border.

Why not create a hack that hacks Windows 7 to allow pictures in the "all programs" area of the startmenu?

What do you mean by pictures?

Do you think it would be ok if you uploaded the xml file(s) so that we can swap out the vsb xml's ourselves? I figure it would probably work all right seeing as how most of us here are familiar with backing up files and replacing them (and how to restore it if something messes up).

Just to be clear, how would I go about applying this to my copy of VSB (or do I just re-download it)?

Yeah I posted that in the first post along with a font replacer idea that does the same.

Yeah, that would be a great add on for WSB.

Like all red changed to blue? Or...?

Yeah, something like that. It could be like: ( where |*| is a drop-down combo box and [RGB] is what the color box normally looks like in the properties pane )

|COLOR| |FILLCOLOR| swap all [255, 0, 0] with [0, 0, 255]

The only thing that I can think of to improve this is also adding a replace [*:COLOR]

• with [*:COLOR][y] for all the color properties. (example: FILLCOLOR:COLOR)

1920x1080

It would be great if we could get the rest of the naming for Preview Pane.

You could always set the caption font to be a font called "blank" which is just transparent text.

Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand (SmallIcons) > TaskItemButton >:[CONTENTMARGINS:MARGINS]:10, 10, 7, 7
Change it to '10, 10, 4, 4' to get a 24px taskbar

Is there any way to forcefully ungroup taskbar items (when the text is displayed)? So that it doesn't use the "Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Basic > TaskBand > UncombinedTaskItem(Left/Right/Center)" image?

I've noticed the same two bugs. As for the second one, It does not allow me to save, export, import, or anything that is activated via the buttons after I test a theme with updated images, etc.

What I have noticed is every style that was made in VSB can't be ported correctly.  Cause all the visual styles I have made in VSB I can't port!

That would mean that you aren't making you're themes correctly, because I can port all of my vsb made themes to 7 without error.

http://nittiyh.deviantart.com/art/Kiilki-VS-140703440

Also, the function where I was able to navigate with my arrow keys is gone. It makes navigation much slower and infuriating.

Sadly, I've lost my download link. But, I e-mailed Ave for another. Hopefully, I'll be able to make use of this amazing update.

I must say, VSB/W7SB would be incomplete without the start button application. Also, selling the start button application would be considered cheap. No offense, really.

I'm pretty sure it just runs off of the 'Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Fonts & System Metrics' colors.

I've achieved a horizontal move, but only partially. It appears to stay in the center of the Places list. This leads to using transparency to fake the position of the user picture, etc.

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.

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.

I am trying to find out how to change the white background in the save dialog. Image can be found here: http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs48/f/2009/210/7/1/Save_Dialog_whitespace_by_Satukoro.png

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

You know, you could just reopen VSB with the option Start new Visual Style selected (as it opens the default Aero theme) and export/copy + past all the data.

The color values for application toolbar borders are in:
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGELIGHTCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEHIGHLIGHTCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGESHADOWCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEDKSHADOWCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEFILLCOLOR:COLOR

Thanks, that worked well. It turns out that the border colors are in:
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGELIGHTCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEHIGHLIGHTCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGESHADOWCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEDKSHADOWCOLOR:COLOR
Fonts, Colors & System Metrics > Colors (Globals) > EDGEFILLCOLOR:COLOR

http://hybridplay.110mb.com/img/border.png
Sorry, but apparently the little picture icon doesn't work. =(

Is there anyone who knows how to remove this dreaded white line between toolbars? I am familiar with removing them with the use of userchrome.css, but I've used visual styles that don't draw the toolbar borders.

Yes, you can change the size of the icons to just about any size, but it involves registry keys, so it isn't suggested that you change them. I do have an idea of where they are, but I'm not completely sure.

The images themselves are in Explorer.exe.

You can see an example of modified shutdown buttons here: http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Ambient-Vista-Port-112118334

Thanks, I was talking to sweatyfish a few days ago and he told me about it. I had forgotten to change the Name of the post.

I am not sure how to change the text color of the folderpane (see picture)


If Ave could move this to Tips and tricks, that would be great.

Does anyone know where I can get a trial of this?

That's pretty cool, but does XP and 7 support Vista themes through this process?

I'd say this one is quite an improvement on things. Although I would still like to see some more improvements on the XP > Vista porting. I could help you in the areas that need to be fixed.

Wow, this is actually quite intriguing. Next chance I get, I'm going to get this program and continue to work on my newest VS. Thanks for the inspiration man.