whack Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Yeah well the start button is a simple little trick you need one of the most recent stylebuilders if you want to do it in stylebuilder. Also if you want to ditch the windows logo on the start button you may forfeit the Start text I believe if you play with it you won't have to but all in all the trick is to set the start button image to be drawn trusize and to make the left margin something like -30 and if you want to drop the text just set the font size for the start button to -1 then modify the image of your start button so it has the text you want on it instead of letting windows do it. BTW this would eliminate the need to distribute a font with the style and give you a little more liscence on your text effects. I'll throw something together to give you an idea and send it your way tonite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Ok the quickest and easiest way to drop the windows logo from the start button is to leave the Sizing Type as stretch and to change the content menu setting for left to -20 then you have a start button that just says start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 And to get rid of the text and the windows Icon you need to set the sizing type to trusize the left content margin to -45 and the right content margin to 112 this will eliminate both so you can just edit the StartButton.bmp to have whatever you want there instead. It's a simple trick like I said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Oh god so many posts yeah I use Gif Movie Gear for Icons import as a PSD and export as individual image 24bit BMp with Alpha I already showed you this trick. Also the is a switch in the shellstyle to use 24bit bmps for the buttons instead of 32bit bmps so they aren't really necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 ChaNinja: Last one for a bit I swear. You should take the time to color your explorer bar to match the shellstyle when you get near compleating the msstyles file this has to be done by hand though so it's one of the last things you want to do unless wait actually I thought of a quick fix for that nevermind I'll talk to you about it later but remind me I have an Idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted January 23, 2002 Author Share Posted January 23, 2002 Dazzla, if you in this thread (or reading it) any chance of you doing an audio player skin for this theme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaNinja Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Whack! Thanks so much for he help! I'll start testing it soon. I want to ask you about the Explorer bar (the category in StyleBuilder). Where exactly in Windows do you see the changes, I've made changes but it just doesn't show. I thought it affects the search panel or something but I guess not. And how DO you change that Search panel, if I remember right I think you posted a pic of the one you were playing with. I can't seem get anywhere with it in StyleBuilder. Olog-hai! I've sort of made a skin for audio player (not the PowerToys one - that "pink" bug is just toodamn annoying...and not the one in the screenshot either), basically I hacked the winamp control EXEs that came with the "XP Classic theme from themexp, it goes in a new toolbar on the taskbar. Looks cool and doesn't have that bug from hell. I don't have it here but I can mail it to you 2morrow, it'll be included in the next release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleJ Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Originally posted by Jaysteddy This theme is awesome, I had to work out why the Shell32 patch wasn't working and it was because I had the XP install files stored locally. One thing I would request though for the next version, any chance of changing the Outlook Express WIndows Icon to have a grey background just like Explorer and IE? I like consistency hehe :) To do this, all you need to do is export bitmaps 240, 241, and 242 from the shell32.dll and import them into bitmaps 35, 37, and 34, respectively, of the msoeres.dll file located in you (SysDrive):Program FilesOutlook Express folder. Works like a charm, I tried it with other VS's just to change the background color from white.:D EDIT: It didn't quite work like a charm. More like a charm that needs its counterpart removed or renamed in the dllcache directory, otherwise the charm will return to normal. Get all that?:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
08993 Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Cool, Thanks DoubleJ, works like a treat :) PS. if anybody wants to know how to ectract and replace stuff in DLL's without program language knowlegde, go to http://www.heaventools.com/?source=overture and download PE Explorer, which is free for 30 days :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 or download resorce hacker it's freeware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Explorer Bar is the one that changes the search but stylebuilder doesn't actually change it. You have to edit the dll's by hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogboy Administrators Posted January 24, 2002 Administrators Share Posted January 24, 2002 This is really a slick theme. Running it right now. Definitely the best logon/logoff buttons I've ever seen. Overall, this is my new favorite msstyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Hi frogboy does it still make your windows really slow to move or resizse??? And also out of curiosity do you use StyleXP to run msstyles or just a hacked UXTHEME.DLL??? I've been wondering that for a while now. Well any way I'm sure ChaNinja is proud to get your seal of aproval that being dificult to get on msstyle's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 ChaNinja: I did the mouse over and all i have to say is I don't like it. I can't seem to get the location of the imges ans the size change to look right hmm that sucks. I'll send it to you if you want but it looks bad if you could help that would be really cool as you did do the originals and I'm just getting irritated with them DogChow: I tried every thing I could think of came up with some strange results but the only thing I can do is justify the text all the way to the left of the title bar which looks much worse or I can change the font size but that won't relly do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted January 24, 2002 Author Share Posted January 24, 2002 Hey all, Finally got the shell32.dll patch to work ;) The fix for me was to kill the shell32.dll file hiding its arse in the dllcache directory, then ran the patch and it worked fine as. I have noticed on themexp that some people experience the sound looping (or a sound looping). This happened to me to - and it appears that it is just the patcher just chewing its way through shell32.dll file. Thanks again chaninja and whack for an excellent theme. Cant wait for RC2 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaNinja Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Thanks Frogboy, I AM proud to get your thumbs up! You're about the only one that said anything nice about my logoff/shutdown buttons, I'm actually in the process of changing them :paranoid: Its 'cos someone thought they really sucked, I was thinking about making them look like the tray arrow...suggestions? Whackboy! Hey don't stress about the shellstyle, please send it to me so I can give it a go, if it still sucks we'll just leave it as it is, nobodys said anything bad about them anyways. About Explorer Bar...which DLL's do I have to edit? DogChow! You speak/understand English better that most people I know, so why the Spanish version? Is it for friends and family? Seems a bit long winded don't you think? Olog-hai! Shot! So what do you think of the hacks? Good / Bad? This is for everyone using the shell32 hack... about the Folder Icons, do you like them, I think they're a bit flat, especially without the shadow effect, it doesn't have that cool 3D look like the default Windows icons, does anyone agree, if so does anyone have any icons that would suit it better? (I can change the colors to match my theme), Also the animations themselves...are the streaming 1's and 0's too small / too fast? I'm open to any suggestions, even complete overhauls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brains Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 Let me see, got A1, B1, B2, RC1, RC1.5. Been using this style for ages, never grew bored of it. With this kind of innovation upon every release, will not likely grow bored quickly. :cool: Just installed the shell32 patch; can not reboot just yet. Shame: am hosing CD image through 10Mbps network. Ahh, the good stuff still to come... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenSBNC Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 I love the skin. My only complaint is about the resize mouse cursors. It makes it hard to tell when your resizing or not. Maybe some different cursors for this would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 if you do make more cursors for the resize could you please still include these I love them also about the folders I love the ones you used in the animations they fit the style so well maybe just make one for an open folder as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted January 25, 2002 Author Share Posted January 25, 2002 I love the file animation of the move/copy Are we suppose to see the default folder icons change as well? If not, any chance getting the icons to change all the folder icons :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted January 25, 2002 Author Share Posted January 25, 2002 Chaninja/whack, Dazzla is looking for ideas on the audioplayer buttons - usually he just uses the three buttons in the top corner, but with this theme they dont work that well .... any ideas.... I was thinking something along the log off buttons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted January 26, 2002 Author Share Posted January 26, 2002 Here is the link to that thread He needs some posts of the buttons - Im at work at the moment and dont have the theme with me - stoopid backwards work only have 2K and not pretty XP ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 To bad theme xp is down D:.. i wanted to dl : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 whack, no problem, the font size more little is ugly, but you can remove the screw (i think is that the word in english), mmm, see it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudlington Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Sweet theme, just thought I'd bring up a little issue I ran into. You know the new task switching thingy that gives you a preview of all the tasks (I think came with the powertoys)? Well it looks really weird with this theme. Here are some screenies: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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