Thin taskbars solved

[Dazzla Veteran]

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.

[Guest whybkuul]

Rockin, thanks Dazz for the info, I hope to see think taskbars on EVERY theme now :p

[kainashi]

awesome, thanks dazzla! :D

[Dazzla Veteran]

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...

[Tran]

Yes! Thanks, Dazz and thank you D'Blade! Thin task bars should be easier to make now...

[whipper25]

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 :(

[Destian]

you own, dazzla. this should definately be a sticky item!

[User_Deleted]

YES !!!! Great Work

[TimeShot]

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

[Miran]

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..

[xpfreak]

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:

[andy_rose]

can this be changed via reshacker, or do i need stylebuilder?

[Dazzla Veteran]

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:

[andy_rose]

I've just opened the .msstyles file in reshacker and was immediately lost

yeah, same here.have to do some digging around ;)

[Binary]

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

[SpeaR]

Awesome. THnx for the file dude ;)

[Labtec]

Time to go modify thanks. :D

[ElTech]

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?

[Dazzla Veteran]

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.

[ElTech]

Thanks, Dazzla. I also discovered I have to edit the margins of Taskband-->Toolbar-->Button AND Dropdownbutton. All is now well.

[CaKeY]

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

[Ishmael]

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

[Ishmael]

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

[Dazzla Veteran]

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?

[kairon]

It worked for me, thin taskbar blue luna is great :)