The strange thing is, the menu bg loads if I use a windows 8 based theme as the main msstyle ans select it to load the start meu from theme in sib. But if I load a 8.1 theme, the menu does not load from the theme.

8.1 theme:


Loading Windows 8 theme in windows style build and selecting to load the start menu theme from msstyle in sib:
 

That did the trick. Thank you so much XD  I have been searching for that for so long. haha.  All that is left to do is find that pesky menu haha

for "2 and 3" try  Styles > TextStyle > BodyText   It works for me

Its already set to white but the text still shows black in the control panel.

here is the dl for it http://simplexdesignsart.deviantart.com/art/Adobe-CC-536072172

Actually 2 and 3 are Fonts & System Metrics > WINDOWTEXT:COLOR



I don't know why that's not showing for you. Try restarting Explorer for it to show.

Well Start Menu > Menus > Basic > Toolbar > Button > Normal also works.

But if you don't have the toolbar location or that doesn't work for some reason then you probably don't have the button either....

nope, haha

Well the start menu template I used was one of the styles included in Start is back Plain8.msstyle  the only sections I can edit are under Start Menu > Panels > Aero/Basic

Its just really strange how its loading that menu BG from nowhere..

Background  is Start Menu > Menus > Basic > Toolbar image in 7 maybe in SIB which I don't use

You can't change those black textcolors

the sib menu file I use does not have that location :/

And in the main theme, its there but does not affect the image.

Hey there, these things are bugging the crap out of me. Searched everywhere and cant seem to find them. Where would these be located?

1. Menu BG

2. Black text color

3. Black text hover color

4. Black text hover color

Yeah, the min I loaded up the preview to try what was shown.. I was just sad. To bad its a mock up 8(   To make things worst, jumplist now are no longer skin-able. The only company I know that can pull off all of these shortcomings is Stardock. I might start developing for that program if it makes it to windows 10. (Thats if they can get things skinned on the modern ui)

Would have been great if it was real, I have give up hope on Windows 10 though and I think Tihiy may have as well as I have not seen him announce any recent working versions of SIB for a long while now.

No, not without porting and not the complete theme, Taskbar and Start Menu will be lost

grim have a look...  This may be good news for themes for windows 10. Not sure about the taskbar buttons though.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Windows-10-Insider-Preview-10125-Retrophase-1-534927809

It seems as though MS is making it yet again harder to theme windows 10... Taskbar background properties are no longer in the theme files. Thats 2 things now (Taskbar BG & Taskbar Buttons) we cannot touch via visual style.


In build 10049, you could skin the show desktop button like so

But it also seems to be the same case as the tasbar/taskbar buttons.

I was able to make the show desktop button function similar to how it did on windows 7 using some magic on the taskbar image and adjusting the width of the show desktop button to 17. Only wish there was a way to get rid of the dark bg behind the clock and remove the white line between the clock/show desktop button.



https://youtu.be/St6itDWL1dQ

Its better to just manually reimport all of your images rather than reuse a 8.1.1 style on 10. Less buggy and %100 safer in terms of black screens.

I tried something similar before and figured it wasn't going to work out due to that bug. Why you do this MS?
At least we know that WSB is working on Windows 10

Yeah MS really messed up on that part. Worse thing is aeroglass/winareo glass are both broken on 10 XD

I am utilizing them nice 1px borders though. That's a nice bonus

Working on a style for 10, however that titlebar bug is going to be a pain XD

That would explain my black screen XD

ONE seems to work then break when I log off or restart.  Had snapshots on my VMware to revert but I think it may be the culprit.

i'm just about to install this technical preview, do i need uxtheme patcher to make the themes to work?

Yes. And I black screened testing a new theme I made XD  Have unzip my vm backup. lol

ONE seems to be working,.
Not looked yet but I'm guessing the UIFILES that  control the 2 control panel images have changed,those are the only changes that aren't showing that I can see so far.Maybe I need a reboot.
The startmenu seems to be changing color depending on the theme.
Just noticed the status bar mod in my uifile is not showing either.

It also seems as though the jumplist got re-adjusted again with windows 10. :/

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?

Startisback is incompatible but ONE works

Didn't have anything to un-rar ONE, lol, unprepared.
Not tried  Start is Back or aero glass yet,will have to make an image before I do that,not using VM.
I wouldn't be surprised if they still work on the early builds though.

dont try aero glass. It will black screen windows 10 with a incompatible DWM message. It will need to be updated to support 10.

Same setup. Though the titlebar text is still a bummer in windows 10.

That's the only way. Its a dwm issue, which is why Aero glass is required.

Thanks for reply

It's the only way? I try it but a watermark appear and at reboot a message who give a computer key (for donate to it's software). There's no way like add property, class or other things in theme with WSB? 

Adds back in the glyph Vista had for preview pane.
Located @ Explorer & Shell > Explorer > PreviewPane > Details Background > Horizontal

Special thanks to Mr GRiM for fixing size issue.

Thanks, that did the trick. XD  Now Its vista like on my end

I have managed to add a glyph to the preview pane. However, It does not scale like it would in vista. How would I go about adding a scale to this glyph?
http://youtu.be/rYL_Trw0h7w

change Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Selected Property > Background image

oh my. I did not even know that was possible... XD

New possibilities just popped up into my mind on explorer bg styles... lol

Is this the only Explorer window that has this?

I can't replicate it but just for the hell of it try Windows 8 (For Testing Purposes Only) > Barrier Page > <1> and see what happens

Nope. I will send you the files through pm. Maybe you could find it?

Can you explain a little better what it is I am looking at, aside from one of the explorer backgrounds being a different color?

There is an odd gradient bg on the right picture but in some cases, it does not show up as shown on the left picture. I have no clue where its loading that gradient bg from.

Hey grim... I have another issue XD  How in the world is this happening? It only showed up the minute I used your dll.

Is that where it was lol, oh well now there is 2 ways of changing it 

Oh well XD  Would be nice if there was a way of doing it soon.. lol

Yeah I changed the sep image to new ones in the msstyle. Now its perfect

 

The UIFILES are already there if you are using the custom shellstyle:



otherwise just copy/paste them in

Thank you very much. Im trying to get mire into the things I never really messed with before and this is a little on the big side at first XD

Last thing, is there any way to move the up directory button into the msstyle?

Where do I place the UI Files? Just in the main directory of the theme?

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.

Thanks! That did the trick, however.. There seems to be an issue with the windows brand images missing in system properties now. Also, do you know where the white lines are located?

How would I go about adding the ability to load colors/graphics for these white areas on a windows 8.1 Update 1 style. Editing the shellstyle of an 8 theme works fine with an 8 theme but no longer works with my 8.1.1 version of the theme.

As you can see in this picture, the classic theme in windows 7 has caption text aligned to the left. The bottom image is my remake for 8.1 u1. The issue is I cannot get the text to align the left. changing: "Windows & Caption Buttons > Basic > Frames > Window > Top   Enum CONTENTALIGNMENT:CENTER to CONTENTALIGNMENT:LEFT does nothing. Has the ability to align text in the caption been revoked in 8.1 update 1?

It seems as though the navigation buttons in windows 8.1 dont load the backdrop images anymore. With this msstlye, you will be able to add your own back into your theme! Located in:

Toolbars, Headers, & Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Aero > Normal > Active > Background
Toolbars, Headers, & Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Aero > Normal > InActive > Background
Toolbars, Headers, & Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Aero > Max > Active > Background
Toolbars, Headers, & Rebar > Rebar > NavBar > Aero > Max > InActive > Background

All you need to do is design your backdrop that fits the the template buttons and then remove the template bg so that your button backdrop is the only thing. As a result to this, you will get a really nice looking Navigation bar as shown below. (There are 3 DPI set Images in each of the background locations)



I have attached the theme template if you would like to test this out. Oh and one more thing, this template is windows 8.1 update 1 ready. (Thanks Grim and DoubleS for the windows 8.1 update 1 fix)
-If you decide to use this template or implement into your own theme, please give proper credits by linking to this thread and who made the mod. Thanks!

~xXiNightXx         Happy Theming!

It seems to happen around the time of me reloading the test. Here is what happens when it completely locks up.




It also will happen sometimes when saving a theme while in test mode.

1.5.5.7 released with fixes for multiple possible memory errors, let me know if it still happens.

1.5.5.9 has the same issue still. The program eventually gives out and no longer functions unless I  force close it.

There seems to be an issue with certain windows having sizing issues. This mainly shows up with programs such as CMD and Google Chrome. When I set the contentmargins to 8, 0, 0, 0 as shown in this first picture. The wsb window looks fine but the cmd/chrome windows have odd graphical issues on the right side.


Now I can fix the issue for CMD/Chrome by using contentmargins 9, 0, 0, 0. But this causes windows explorer and any other program that uses that frame to look squished on the top/bottom right side as shown here.


What do you think the issue is? I attached the visual style file to the bottom of this post so that you can see the issue first hand.

I linked my hotmail so it pulled that as my username for the system. I need to figure out how to change it lol.

I hid my real name from the start menu and I blanked out the tabs for the preview in photoshop.

Windows 8.1 now supported.