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New version with Tim's fix, system tray fixes, and large/extra large font fixes.

Watercolor 4.2.3

I will worry about your "bug" andrewfee, come next major release. Right now I dont think it's affecting that many people :)

Chris

is this available any where else ? i cant seem to download it :s

Give me a few seconds and it will be up under the link that says go easy (in the very first post)

Chris

claim down man,

if your 50+ you shouldnt be using watercolor therefore.. you don't need large or EXTRA large fonts come on now.

toxxic,

i've been dieing to get trillian pro.. well i have it.. whistler skin in ergonomic so it matches my watercolor desktop man post it or send me it something please! my email is [email protected] remove nospam.

i was talking about winamp, not trillian.

Hi, Binary. Watercolor is the primary theme of my little PC.

But I've encountered a probrem with checkbox on listview.

At 16bit and 24bit color mode, the non-hilighted checkboxes on listview are always shown as unchecked state, irrespective of its real state.

Please try following operation to see for the problem.

Set color mode to 16 or 24 bit.

Open Explorer.

Menu - "View", and select the item with accelerator "C"(I don't know menu item string of English version)

Is it fixable problem?

My PC can't deal 32bit color, and I'd like to use Watercolor permanently.

Sorry for my terrible English.

Any word on when this theme will support resizeable caption buttons/title bars?

Sorry, I dont know what you mean?

Chris

Hi, Binary. Watercolor is the primary theme of my little PC.

But I've encountered a probrem with checkbox on listview.

At 16bit and 24bit color mode, the non-hilighted checkboxes on listview are always shown as unchecked state, irrespective of its real state.

Please try following operation to see for the problem.

Set color mode to 16 or 24 bit.

Open Explorer.

Menu - "View", and select the item with accelerator "C"(I don't know menu item string of English version)

Is it fixable problem?

My PC can't deal 32bit color, and I'd like to use Watercolor permanently.

Sorry for my terrible English.

I'll look into it.

Chris

How do you guys get the insane compression??? It's like you turn 5mbs into 500k how! I've tried using max compression but it doesn't make the files that small:(

I use winrar. They compress good because bmp's compress good :)

Chris

what I was really asking was what options you use. to get it super small in Win RAR.

it's just an sfx archive. I dont do anything out of the ordinary. My style is smaller than other's with more substyles, simply because I have optimized it (by indexing), which also makes it compress better.

Chris

One thing i noticed after switching between the Windows Classic them and Binary's Watercolor theme is that the task text in the task bar is concatenated a bit prematurely; I think the taskbar would be far more attractive and more useable, if more of the text was displayed per element. Perhaps this has to do with the width of the border images for the taskbar. Binary, if you could improve this in your next revision, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Hope you get a chance to read this one lonely post out of hundreds. Thanks for a great theme, Binary.

One thing i noticed after switching between the Windows Classic them and Binary's Watercolor theme is that the task text in the task bar is concatenated a bit prematurely; I think the taskbar would be far more attractive and more useable, if more of the text was displayed per element. Perhaps this has to do with the width of the border images for the taskbar. Binary, if you could improve this in your next revision, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Hope you get a chance to read this one lonely post out of hundreds. Thanks for a great theme, Binary.

I read and agknowledge everything ;) I'll look into it, as with many other things people have told me.

Chris

New version with Tim's fix, system tray fixes, and large/extra large font fixes.

Watercolor 4.2.3

I will worry about your "bug" andrewfee, come next major release. Right now I dont think it's affecting that many people :)

Chris

link is down

Links on the first post are fine ;) Always check the first post if other links throughout the thread are down :D

Chris

Binary, Do you use WinRar to make your sfx exe's ... ?

What version ... ?

yes, winrar 3

Chris

One thing i noticed after switching between the Windows Classic them and Binary's Watercolor theme is that the task text in the task bar is concatenated a bit prematurely; I think the taskbar would be far more attractive and more useable, if more of the text was displayed per element.  Perhaps this has to do with the width of the border images for the taskbar.  Binary, if you could improve this in your next revision, it would be very much appreciated.  Thank you.  Hope you get a chance to read this one lonely post out of hundreds.  Thanks for a great theme, Binary.

I read and agknowledge everything ;) I'll look into it, as with many other things people have told me.

Chris

There seems to be a similar issue with menus. The vertical spacing is quite large, and the black arrow for hierarchical menus, when selected is not completely covered with the highlight. Thanks.

One thing i noticed after switching between the Windows Classic them and Binary's Watercolor theme is that the task text in the task bar is concatenated a bit prematurely; I think the taskbar would be far more attractive and more useable, if more of the text was displayed per element. ?Perhaps this has to do with the width of the border images for the taskbar. ?Binary, if you could improve this in your next revision, it would be very much appreciated. ?Thank you. ?Hope you get a chance to read this one lonely post out of hundreds. ?Thanks for a great theme, Binary.

I read and agknowledge everyt;)ng ;) I'll look into it, as with many other things people have told me.

Chris

There seems to be a similar issue with menus. The vertical spacing is quite large, and the black arrow for hierarchical menus, when selected is not completely covered with the highlight. Thanks.

hmm I'm not quite sure what you mean. Providing a screenshot might help. Everything on my computer looks fine to me... *shrug*

Chris

The black arrow in the circle area seems to close to the edge of the blue selection highlight.

The distance marked by the red line seems too large.

Again, these comparisons are being made against the Windows Classic theme, which, I believe, is the most compact theme.

These are all really nit-picky issues, but when a theme is this far along, those are the only problems left :)

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The black arrow in the circle area seems to close to the edge of the blue selection highlight.

The distance marked by the red line seems too large.

Again, these comparisons are being made against the Windows Classic theme, which, I believe, is the most compact theme.

These are all really nit-picky issues, but when a theme is this far along, those are the only problems left :)

Mine dont do that :blink:, sorry I can't fix what I cant see :(.

Chris

The black arrow in the circle area seems to close to the edge of the blue selection highlight.

The distance marked by the red line seems too large.

Again, these comparisons are being made against the Windows Classic theme, which, I believe, is the most compact theme.

These are all really nit-picky issues, but when a theme is this far along, those are the only problems left  :)

Mine dont do that :blink:, sorry I can't fix what I cant see :(.

Chris

That's quite odd... I'm just using a uxtheme patch on sp1 too...

Watercolor has been updated to 4.3

Check the first post in this thread for links/details :)

Chris

I "may" have fixed your menu arrow bug animaniac.

And I can make the items closer, but I just dont think it looks right, because the highlight will just miss the top and bottom of full 16 pixel icons.

Like this:

Menu.jpg

Chris

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