- VS - Codename: Opus 3.0

[Soviet]

wow love this theme.

Where is the winamp skin at ?

KoL is taking his time making it sweet.

[Veedems Veteran]

any update on the WB port? I would port it myself but I always wind up getting impatient with fine tweaking in skinstudio.

[krankyiuys]

skinstudio does an excellent job of converting into WB format (i've done it myself). i've been using it for about a week now and i can find only one (maybe two) flaw(s) with the skinstudio converted version... and that is there a pink box in a folder with media in it (see screenshot). also the headings 'video tasks', 'file and folder tasks', 'other places' and 'details' are in white - i'm not sure if they are supposed to be green in tune with the theme....

[spacey]

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9595507/

I finally got my lazy butt into making the dusk colour variation, they're all done now! Enjoy :D

[Lighter]

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9595507/

I finally got my lazy butt into making the dusk colour variation, they're all done now! Enjoy :D

Schweet! Thanks.

[The Poetic Dragon]

a very excellent visual style. great work, as usual.

i tell you, most of the time, the styles i use are usually done by you. rarely am i ever disappointed by work like this.

[Fiskarn]

This visual style is one of the best looking i have ever seen :)

[eseiat]

Anyone getting incredibly slow speeds from devART at the moment? I am currently downloading at a whopping 1.5KB/sec.

This theme is by far my favorite theme ever. Your work is so good! Thank you for always giving us great styles.

[Liverpoolfc]

Well it took forever for the page to load for me, download was a good speed though

Exxxcellent theme! Simplistic and not over the top. This ones going straight on!

[Liverpoolfc]

Woah, clock in the taskbar disappeared after applying this. Ah screw it, still a great VS

[entropyx]

I'm getting slow speeds in Dev. Art too. :(

[psychoticDEMENTO]

Dev art is ALWAYS slow

[bcool]

Why oh why did you not allow for white or at least a lighter color highlight text on the

ALL PROGRAM/FAVOURITES menus off of Start Menu Panel??

As it is now, the highlight text is black which makes these highlighted menu items barely legible on mouseover. :wacko:

Apart from this aberration, I find Code 3 very near perfection.

Thanks!

[Ran Sagy]

What a very nice way of asking the author to adjust something in your favor.

[bcool]

I know b0se is extremely busy. So I'll swap out the highlight background with something else much lighter that I have in stock. I've got to be able to read the menu items. Once again, this VS is a fine piece of art! Thank you Mr. b0se.

[bcool]

A little tricky but once I took up _startgrouptoolbarbutton_bmp into my favorite editor, I was able to change the component color to something much lighter. Now the highlighted menu items in the startpanel's ALL PROGRAMS & FAVORITES are easy on the eyes upon mouseover. Dusk is working for me. Nifty. :)

[Guest mgorbach]

Whats the best way to change the text color of the start menu items when highlighted to white? Can this be easily done?

[OPaul]

Whats the best way to change the text color of the start menu items when highlighted to white? Can this be easily done?

Display Properties--> Appearance-->Advanced-->Selected Items I assume.

[Guest mgorbach]

nope ... this color's set to white. The color on the start menu item text on rollover is actually black ... im trying to change it to white.

[OPaul]

nope ... this color's set to white. The color on the start menu item text on rollover is actually black ... im trying to change it to white.

So you want to change the text color from black to white in the Start Menu when an item is active?

[Guest mgorbach]

yes, exactly!

[bcool]

The problem is - as has already been noted - the Display Properties--> Appearance-->Advanced-->Selected Items will not directly affect the rollover highlighted text on ALL PROGRAMS/FAVORITES menu items in Start menu. The only way I know to change this is to actually modify the visual style which is what I've done with ResHacker. Of course this is for my own personal and private consumption. :D

Edited August 10, 2004 by bcool

[Guest mgorbach]

what did you modify bcool? if you would tell me i could do this myself and be very happy!

[bcool]

look for this in BITMAP section : _startgrouptoolbarbutton_bmp this bmp resource will be preceded with VS designation throughout the .msstyles file, e.g., alpha2_startgrouptoolbarbutton_bmp. I extracted from color scheme I wanted to modify (DUSK22/DUSK2). I then modified the top bar of two that are embeded in a transparent overlay in _startgrouptoolbarbutton_bmp. I changed the color of the bar to a very light blue. Saved my work and replaced the original in the VS. I'm a happy camper.

Edited August 11, 2004 by bcool

[Guest mgorbach]

bcool ... you didnt change the text color though, correct? It must be possible to change the text color somewhere, instead of changing the actual background image.