Metallic Shades 2

[ThemeNorth]

any winamp skin available that looks good with it?

MMD3 (for Winamp 3) works quite well with it (Silver 3 | Blue 1 matches the blue schemes).

[purush]

First of all my hearty congratulation on a theme that you have painstakingly done with attention to every single detail. I am currently using your version 1. But, with your version 2. the blue panel on the left side of the window where it shows 'system tasks' 'other places' and 'details' appears just plain. Same with the control panel window I don't see the colourful background with pencil. Could you kindly clarify this please.

Sincerely,

Peter

[ThemeNorth]

purush: Glad to here you like the style. I redesigned the shellstyle (which is what handles the items you mentioned) for the new version. Of course, if you prefer the old style just copy the appropriate shellstyle.dll across - only Blue[Metallic] and Green[HomeStead] though.

ThemeNorth

[ThemeNorth]

Minor Update

- Fixed a small problem with the user pane border in Standard and No User Picture Blue

- Fixed disabled scrollbar track used in some applications

Please see the first message in this thread for full details and to download.

[ThemeNorth]

Added LogonUI

Metallic Shades LogonUI

[StuRReaL]

tis a nice theme except i dislike the browness to the backgrounds in my applications :( could u do a version without that orangy brown please :)

[BroChaos Veteran]

you can change that in the appearaces tab i believe. i forget which section it is, but just scroll though them until you see the one that has the matching brown color.

[ThemeNorth]

To change the application background colour:

- Open Display Properties

- Move to the Appearance Tab

- Click the Advanced button

- Select 'Application Background' from the Item drop down list

- Choose a colour of your preference for Colour 1

ThemeNorth

[Zapster]

Just curious why this has to be manually adjusted to get rid of the "browness to the backgrounds", when pretty much all other vs's don't have this discoloration issue? Can't it be adjusted in an update to the vs? Maybe I'm missing something? I do like this vs very much.

[Zapster]

Just to clarify, this "brownness" does not show up with any other vs that I use. It is only there when I run this one. Logically it would appear the vs is the source. Hope this helps.

[ThemeNorth]

Just to clarify, this "brownness" does not show up with any other vs that I use. It is only there when I run this one. Logically it would appear the vs is the source. Hope this helps.

Indeed, the VS is the source. I chose the brown colour (and like it) so I won't be releasing a version with a different colour. In my opinion the colour fits in with the rest of the VS being easy to look at for hours on end without burning images onto your retina!

As I said though it's easy enough to change should you wish. If you want a more permanent personal 'fix' you can change the 'AppWorkSpace=181 171 145' line in the first section of each of the INI files in the VS to a colour of your choosing (where 181 171 145 is the colour value in the format RED GREEN BLUE). I warn you though that there are 36 files to change to update all the colours and variations. The easiest way to do this is to open up the msstyle file with ResBuild from TGTSoft and edit the INI files in Notepad.

ThemeNorth

[Zapster]

Ah, thanks for the info. Somewhere along the line I didn't catch that this was purposely a part of the vs. Thanks again.

[b0se]

This is still one of my favourite themes, so nice to use...

Is there a Winamp skin?

[BroChaos Veteran]

To change the application background colour:

- Open Display Properties

- Move to the Appearance Tab

- Click the Advanced button

- Select 'Application Background' from the Item drop down list

- Choose a colour of your preference for Colour 1

ThemeNorth

hehe, that's a little more descriptive than my answer :p

[ThemeNorth]

Is there a Winamp skin?

Not yet...

I might see what I can come up with (I assume you're after one for 2.x not 3).

ThemeNorth

[Zapster]

This is definitely one of my favorite vs's. A Winamp for 2.x would be awesome to go with this vs.

Thanks again ThemeNorth for all your efforts and sharing. It's highly appreciated!

[b0se]

Yes 2.x TN...

Would really round this theme off if there was one (Y)

[antoxicion]

themenorth are you going to make one?

do to popular request? if u do... this would be default on

every machine i have :D :D :D :D

[antoxicion]

also.... a suggestion... a compact start menu with the compact taskbar would kick butt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThemeNorth]

themenorth are you going to make one?

do to popular request? if u do... this would be default on

every machine i have :D :D :D :D

Yes... I won't say any more at the moment :)

[StuRReaL]

To change the application background colour:

- Open Display Properties

- Move to the Appearance Tab

- Click the Advanced button

- Select 'Application Background' from the Item drop down list

- Choose a colour of your preference for Colour 1

ThemeNorth

oh yeah i know u can :) but theres browness in bits other than that which i can't change :( its great theme but the brown just doesn't work, thats my only fault with it other than that its as near perfection as u can get, well along with Watercolour ;)

[antoxicion]

themenorth are you going to make one?

do to popular request? if u do... this would be default on

every machine i have  :D  :D  :D  :D

Yes... I won't say any more at the moment :)

::orgasm::

:woot: :woot: :woot: :rolleyes:

[eevoo]

just downloaded the update

found a little bug... onthe start menu

between mouse over and not. in the blue compact version.

[antoxicion]

just downloaded the update

found a little bug... onthe start menu

between mouse over and not. in the blue compact version.

i dont have that bug...

this theme is bugless... :D :p :rofl:

[Zapster]

(ThemeNorth @ Jun 27 2003, 22:54)

To change the application background colour:

- Open Display Properties

- Move to the Appearance Tab

- Click the Advanced button

- Select 'Application Background' from the Item drop down list

- Choose a colour of your preference for Colour 1

ThemeNorth 

(StuRReaL@Posted on Jul 4 2003, 16:41)

oh yeah i know u can  but theres browness in bits other than that which i can't change  its great theme but the brown just doesn't work, thats my only fault with it other than that its as near perfection as u can get, well along with Watercolour

I have found the same thing. That "browness" is showing up in programs where it can't be changed. Xnews is an example. There is a bar of this browness stretching across the lower part of the window (toolbar area). I agree with StuRReaL, the brown just does not work. Other than that, it's a great vs.