Explorer Itemsview FontShadow

[Dave Senior]

If you want to add a shadow to the text in  Explorer ItemsView  windows  add these attributes to the following locations in  System32 > Explorerframe.dll > UIFILE 40960  .

Fontstyle="shadow"  Shadowintensity="---"     (Can go up to "500" for the Intensity value)
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Open uifile 40960 in notepad-
Search for    -    <style resid="ItemsView">   all the locations are below  it.

Locations:
This one does all itemsview window  text.

  

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1. element background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"  

element background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"

 (Can only  control  shadow intensity in certain areas )
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Individual Locations  (add the attributes to all these)
                 -Empyt Folder Text
    

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1. UIBase background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UIBase background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

 
                 - group header text  
    

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1. UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

                 - Itemsview Header  text
    

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1. UIViewHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UIViewHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

 
                 -Content/Details View text
    

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1. UIItem background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UIItem background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

                 -Itemsview  / Items view selected text (also Group Header text)
    

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1. UIProperty background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UIProperty background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

                 - Detailstext
    

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1. UITilesPropertyCollection background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

UITilesPropertyCollection background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

 
                 -Try harder text
    

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1. UITryHarder background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"   

 UITryHarder background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" 

                               

It should look like this when you're done-

    eg :

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1. UIBase background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"  fontstyle="shadow" shadowintensity="300"  

UIBase background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"  fontstyle="shadow" shadowintensity="300"

        (Locations with single text controls will override those that   control several locations ..  eg :  if you put something in UIProperty Background it's groupheader part can be overridden by adding  to   <UIGroupheader background..)
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You can also add a font attribute at the  above  locations to take control of various Itemsview fonts-

Adding   -    font="gtf(Listview, 6, 0, 807)"    to  

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1. UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"  

UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft"

After
  

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1. UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" font="gtf(Listview, 6, 0, 807)"  

UIGroupHeader background="argb(0,0,0,0)" contentalign="topleft" font="gtf(Listview, 6, 0, 807)"

Will make the font  for GroupHeader Text  be  at -

Lists, Menus & Tabs > ListView > GroupHeader > Heading1Font:Font.

You can link to any existing font in the .msstyles
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 Note : Remember this is a system file so the edits will show up in all themes.
            The shadow doesn't work on rgb( 0, 0, 0 )  textcolor .
            You'll need to  experiment to get  whats best for you.
            You can use Fontshadow and shadowintensity in alot of other uifiles,
             Make backups of explorerframe.dll
            Test the UIFILE In Res Spy first if possible


  End result -





   here's a few examples of other UIFILES with fontshadow added.

[Panda X]

Nice

Also if I recall correctly you can also control the shadow size via the msstyles with gtmet(c, p, s, 2402) pointing to ALPHALEVEL:INT

[Dave Senior]

Nice

Also if I recall correctly you can also control the shadow size via the msstyles with gtmet(c, p, s, 2402) pointing to ALPHALEVEL:INT

  Thanks   , been wondering if that could be done,
   I'll give it ago.

[rajtheeban]

Is it possible to change the color of this shadow (white instead of black) ? ( playing with the "shadowintensity" property maybe) ?
I've already managed to get a green shadow a long time ago, don't know how I did (probably a bug lol)...

[Dave Senior]

Is it possible to change the color of this shadow (white instead of black) ? ( playing with the "shadowintensity" property maybe) ?
I've already managed to get a green shadow a long time ago, don't know how I did (probably a bug lol)...

Never managed to change the shadow color,tried all kinds of things,not even a green shadow for me.I keep having  ago at it  ...
 If you  find a solution I'd be interested  to know how it's done 

[Panda X]

I'm 99% sure it can't be changed.