[VS] Pastelish for Vista

By ProiektHat
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Well, I'm using the ones with Trans prefix. Unless something is weird that should be one of the transparent ones?

That's strange. Download DeskHack (google it) and install that so the actual names of themes show up in Window Color and Appearance instead of everything being "Windows Aero" and "Windows Vista Basic" and try it that way.

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That's strange. Download DeskHack (google it) and install that so the actual names of themes show up in Window Color and Appearance instead of everything being "Windows Aero" and "Windows Vista Basic" and try it that way.

It works on Vista64 SP1 I hope?

I'll give it a shot on 32 bit first and see what happens. :)

Edit: worked on 32 bit. I think I see what happened. Just going by appearance without the DeskHack, the sample dialogs shown looked like Diamond Final with the blue glassy buttons. I'll give it a go on 64 bit now. Looks very nice.

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sorry i?ve forgotten totally this thread.

I was working on Pastelish to make it unique and not an aero mod (i received some critics from a so called "elite themer", on devart, because this was not a VS ,only a merely mod, i took it like a 'positive critic' :hmmm:: ). So i was theming, you know, creating all buttons, dropdow itens, tabs, mouse over itens, and so on....but then :|| .....windows 7 and all this crazyness of build after build and i was grabed and pratically i am using windows 7, even though i dual boot with vista x64 and have all the resources to continue with the revamp.

so excuse me to all who were expecting the update.

But i am a person of phases, right now it?s only windows 7, maybe in the future comes a phase of modding again.

This is what i?ve done to the mod, and some more things.

Cheers everyone

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That looks nice. Perhaps add a text glow if you keep the titlebar text black. I turned mine white and inverted the glow color to black to mimic a drop shadow and it works nice except that the header section in the taskmanager also turns white (shared resource). Only place where it buggers it up as far as I know. And don't listen to those 'elite themers'. Many of them design with the idea of form over function, so of course they'd see this as an aero mod. Their designs are typically very minimalistic or over bloated. These are what I categorize into "designer themes", you know, the ones where it's all "LOOK AT MEEE!!" by stripping out parts of the panel, hiding caption buttons or hiding the search bar. These designer themes often look decent but once you try them on you'll bump into all sorts of problems and inconsistencies as they only change the 'face' of the theme.

Anyway, enough of my blabbering. Keep it up!

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Pastelish is available for download.

It was made on a x64 system but it should work on a x86 too...notice me if you find any bug.

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Pastelish on Deviantart

Update 13 out 2008: I removed those white pixels rm20010 mentioned, you can download again the VS please.

Update 14 out 2008: Progress bar bug on x86 systems fixed.

Update 14 oct 2008: full transparency supported.

Update 14 oct 2008: all progress bars updated.

Update 16 oct 2008 : Toolwindows close button fixed, Quick launch buttons fixed, New shellstyle.

Update 21 Oct 2008 : Basic Mode skin added

Update 23 Oct 2008 : All little annoyances fixed...caption buttons re-arranged so now tool windows buttons are displayed correctly.

Start button recolored

Hello,

Beautfiul masterpeice. Is there any chance to Windows 7 port?

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