Dazzla Veteran Posted December 14, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 14, 2002 D'Blade on the DT2 forums gave me exact figures to use to get a thin taskbar. I applied it on a blank Luna base and also a few fat taskbar themes and it's worked on all of them so far. All top/bottom margins = 0 in the follow categories:General->Taskband->FlashButton Taskband->Toolbar Taskbar->Toolbar TrayNotifyHoriz->TrayNotify->Background Thats the figures people. Here's luna with just those figures modified: I've also zipped up Luna as a base so people can use that. I always find working off of luna best because there's no/much less bugs then working off of someone elses themes. Download Once again, big thanks to D'Blade who finally set it in stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whybkuul Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Rockin, thanks Dazz for the info, I hope to see think taskbars on EVERY theme now :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainashi Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 awesome, thanks dazzla! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 14, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted December 14, 2002 Thank D'Blade ;) :yes: ;) Every single one of my themes now have a thin taskbar, that's the Mac which is still left in me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Yes! Thanks, Dazz and thank you D'Blade! Thin task bars should be easier to make now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whipper25 Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 you're a good man dazzla :) and you're a good man d'blade :) can someone do this with the classic default on xp? i don't have stylexp :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destian Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 you own, dazzla. this should definately be a sticky item! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_Deleted Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 YES !!!! Great Work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeShot Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Thanks Dazzla! I just thought I should change this in the XML-File - and it didn't work until I noticed that I should try it out in Stylebuilder :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miran Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 you're a good man dazzla :) and you're a good man d'blade :)can someone do this with the classic default on xp? i don't have stylexp :( Just download their free patch.. I believe that is what most people do - I can't imagine stylexp is a very hot seller.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpfreak Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 D'Blade on the DT2 forums gave me exact figures to use to get a thin taskbar. I applied it on a blank Luna base and also a few fat taskbar themes and it's worked on all of them so far.All top/bottom margins = 0 in the follow categories:General->Taskband->FlashButton Taskband->Toolbar Taskbar->Toolbar TrayNotifyHoriz->TrayNotify->Background Thats the figures people. Here's luna with just those figures modified: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sherry.pontin...g/Junk/Thin.jpg I've also zipped up Luna as a base so people can use that. I always find working off of luna best because there's no/much less bugs then working off of someone elses themes. Download Once again, big thanks to D'Blade who finally set it in stone. kewl :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_rose Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 can this be changed via reshacker, or do i need stylebuilder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 14, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted December 14, 2002 can this be changed via reshacker, or do i need stylebuilder? I've just opened the .msstyles file in reshacker and was immediately lost :blink: I'm sure there is a way because themes were made before Stylebuilder came out but I can't see how :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_rose Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 I've just opened the .msstyles file in reshacker and was immediately lost yeah, same here.have to do some digging around ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 thanks for the info dazzla :) PS the "conversion" doesnt work well for all themes, watercolor for example looks like pure crap without any other modifications :) It might just be my wierd bitmaps and spacing though. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeaR Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Awesome. THnx for the file dude ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labtec Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Time to go modify thanks. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElTech Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Ok, I've tried this on a couple styles so far, and have had mixed results. Question : is it the sizing margins, or the content margins, that are to be set to 0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 14, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted December 14, 2002 Ok, I've tried this on a couple styles so far, and have had mixed results. Question : is it the sizing margins, or the content margins, that are to be set to 0? Content margins for top and bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElTech Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Thanks, Dazzla. I also discovered I have to edit the margins of Taskband-->Toolbar-->Button AND Dropdownbutton. All is now well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 Thanks a million Dazzla. I run a double taskbar and only use thin taskbar visual styles. This info will let me mod full taskbar styles myself instead of bitching to the original artists. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 ack, wow... Thanks a ton... This is certainly different than the approach J45on and I went about making them thin, I think. IT seems to work fine as well, I have not tested when it requires changes to Taskband-->Toolbar-->Button AND Dropdownbutton yet. Ishmael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 AFter testing more... it seems that this does not work for me predictably yet. Most of my themes already have Zero values for the following settings. Yet their taskbands are not any slimmer. Perhaps all the graphics have to be slimmer than the default height of N as well. Anyone else, Bueler, Bueler? ContentMargins=0,0,0,0 General->Taskband->FlashButton Taskband->Toolbar Taskbar->Toolbar TrayNotifyHoriz->TrayNotify->Background Taskband->Toolbar->Button Taskband->Toolbar->DropdownButton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 16, 2002 Author Veteran Share Posted December 16, 2002 AFter testing more... it seems that this does not work for me predictably yet. Most of my themes already have Zero values for the following settings. Yet their taskbands are not any slimmer. Perhaps all the graphics have to be slimmer than the default height of N as well. Anyone else, Bueler, Bueler?ContentMargins=0,0,0,0 General->Taskband->FlashButton Taskband->Toolbar Taskbar->Toolbar TrayNotifyHoriz->TrayNotify->Background Taskband->Toolbar->Button Taskband->Toolbar->DropdownButton Well, it's worked on 17 out of 17 themes I've tried. What themes isn't it working on for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairon Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 It worked for me, thin taskbar blue luna is great :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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