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[splxtreme]

Hopefully I can explain this right, but is it possible to say, add an image with reshacker and have it show up somewhere in VSB? I would like to try a couple things with my theme that references images in the msstyle, and don't want to use bmp's in the shellstyle. Basically, I would like to add something under say, Explorer & Shell \ Explorer and add a new item called images or something. Is this possible?

[sunbeam2000]

Hopefully I can explain this right, but is it possible to say, add an image with reshacker and have it show up somewhere in VSB? I would like to try a couple things with my theme that references images in the msstyle, and don't want to use bmp's in the shellstyle. Basically, I would like to add something under say, Explorer & Shell \ Explorer and add a new item called images or something. Is this possible?

Yes this is possible... but not by Reshacker, only by VSB

you have to trace the pane background in shellstyle.dll > 1.txt to a unused part (for example PreviewPaneControl) in msstyle and put a graphic in it via VSB.
Even fonts, fontcolors etc are possible..

i recommend the DirectUIXML notes from panda here in the forum or take a look in my Firedance Vista themes on dA
(there are the panes in msstyle and the shellstyle takes them out from there by following syntax: background=themeable(dtb("part in the msstyle", 0, 3801)) etc,etc plz take a closer look

it also works on 7..

[splxtreme]

OK, I got close, but I'm not sure what to put into the shellstyle. I'll attach a screenshot of what is in VSB, and hopefully you can tell me what to put in the shellstyle. I was able to get the picture to come up blank, so I just have something pointing to the wrong location. Thank you.

[splxtreme]

Thank you so much. I figured it out! Yeah!

[splxtreme]

ok, maybe I don't have it. I was able to change the background in music, then i tried pictures, and then it messed it up. Trying to do the longhorn style background in the previewpane, but not going so well. What I originally wanted to do, is add additional numbers under previewpane. right now it is 1>1, 1>2, 2, 3 ect. I wanted to add something like 1>3, and 1>4. Not sure if this is possible. I did it just like you did in your theme sort of, the shellstyle for vista is different, so I'm not sure if I did it right. Basically this is what i did....

<if id="atom(PreviewShineLayer)"> <TemplateBackground background="themeable(dtb(MusicPreviewPaneControl::Edit, 3, 1), window)" /> </if> <if Vertical="true" id="atom(PreviewShineLayer)"> <TemplateBackground background="themeable(dtb(PreviewPane, 1, 2), window)" /></if>

</style>

I'm probably doing something wrong, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[sunbeam2000]

<if id="atom(PreviewShineLayer)"> <TemplateBackground background="themeable(dtb(MusicPreviewPaneControl::Edit, 3, 1), window)" /> </if> <if Vertical="true" id="atom(PreviewShineLayer)"> <TemplateBackground background="themeable(dtb(PreviewPane, 1, 2), window)" /></if>

</style>

I'm probably doing something wrong, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Great! i see, you did it right, so you only have to find the right passages in the shellstyle txt for documents, generic, music, photo.
the only thing i can recommend is, not to put it in the shinelayer, but in the background (in 7 its directly before the shinelayer with background="(ARGB(0,0,0,0))"
so you can still use a transparent shinelayer over the pane (if you don't want to, then place in the shinelayer (previewpane,1,1) a clear image, but the shellstyle is edited once, and later you can change your Style by using only in VSB..

when the shellstyle.dll once works correctly, place a copy in appdata/roaming/temp/shell (or similar, the temp folder is somewhere in appdata), so you can test your theme directly in vsb. vsb uses a standard shellstyle in test mode.