Yes i figured out after that post I made how to get mouse over working.

This is what I ended up and it worked for the most part but I noticed if I tried to use the default Aero theme with these edits Explorer would fail to load even though it worked with my visual style.  Im not sure why that would happen but having these effects for me isnt worth having a broking Aero theme so I went back to the original explorerframe.dll.  I might try again sometime later when I have more time.  Thanks for all your help.

Code:

<if active="keyboard"><if keyfocused="true">
<UIItemsView background="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3802), window)" foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
</if>
</if>
<unless id="atom(FileName)">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 5, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
<if selected="true">
   <UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/>
</if>
<if MouseFocused="true">
   <UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/>
</if>
</unless>

Ignore this post.  My changes werent being saved correctly so I need to figure that out first.

Reading all this xml is driving me crazy.   I dont know how you guys do it.

Using the below code I got the text color to change when selected but I cant figure out how to get it to change on mouse over.

Code:

<if active="keyboard"><if keyfocused="true">
<UIItemsView background="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3802), window)" foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 0, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
</if>
</if>
<unless id="atom(FileName)">
<UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 5, 0, 3803), windowtext)"/>
<if selected="true">
   <UIProperty foreground="themeable(gtc(ItemsView, 4, 1, 3803), highlighttext)"/>
</if>
</unless>

If gone through the themes idas posted and I think this is the code that handles the highlighting but explorer fails to open when I try to use it.

Code:

<if WindowActive="false">
  <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>                                      
    <if drophighlight="false">
        <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
    </if>
                                
     <if mousefocused="true">
        <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     </if>
                                
     <UIImage background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView::ListView, 1, 5), highlight)"/>
</if>
                                
<if WindowActive="true">
     <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     <if drophighlight="true">
         <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
     </if>
                                        
      <if mousefocused="true">
          <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
      </if>
                                        
       <if keyfocused="true">
            <UIItem background="themeable(argb(0,0,0,0), highlight)"/>
       </if>
</if>
<UIImage background="themeable(dtb(ItemsView::ListView, 1, 5), highlight)"/> 
</if>

Is there something Im missing?

I havent had the chance to try this yet but thank you so much for writing it all up. 

[blue hover and white text .]

Any chance you can share with us how you did the following:

When foristance we select a folder as 'icon', we have separate mouse over image for the folder  and other image for the text.
When we select a folder as 'details' we can have stripes, and mouse over images like mac os X , blue hover and white text .

The blue hover with white text is what I really want to know.

http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=755.0

Search works wonders.
http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=755.0

I still havent figured this out yet.  Anybody know if its even possible?  Anyone know of a theme that currently does this?

I finally figured this out.  There's a nice little utility called difftool.exe that comes with VSB and using that I found the value that was causing the problem.  It was Toolbars, Headers and Rebar:Toolbar:DropDownButton > Contentmargins:margins.  Mine was set to 0,0,0,3 when it should have been 0,0,0,0. 

Edited:  ka-la is right.  its contentmargins not sizingmargins.

I'm trying to get the text on a mouseover to change to white (see pic).  Ive tried adding the textcolor:color property to ListItem:Hot and it doesn't seem to do anything.  Can this be done in msstyles or is it a shellstyle thing or a combo of both?  Oh and if possible the subtext too.  Thanks.

Thanks for the response.  I tried both positive and negative values but couldn't get the buttons to move at all.  The surrounding area would shrink and eventually the buttons would get clipped off only.  I know I never changed those and they are still on the original aero values of 0, 0, 0, 3.

The only thing I did change from the original theme in that area was the the addressband.  I restored the original aero image and the original content and sizing margins.

Im modifying an existing theme I found on deviantart and something I changed caused the forward/back buttons to drop lower than they are supposed to be.



Unfortunately I didnt catch the problem during one of my many edits and now I have no idea which one messed it up.  Its definately a msstyles problem since thats the only file ive edited.  My msstyle can be found at http://www.camteq.com/files/LeopardOSX.msstyles if anyone wants to take a peak at it.  Original is at http://alkhan.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-OSX-for-Win7-RC-v2-123978540.

Can anyone think of a reason why this happened?  Ive tried everything I can think of to fix it with no success.  Thanks.

edit:  forgot to mention im using Basic not Aero but its happening in both.