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strange error....

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this shot was taken of my startmenu and the little explorer box is missing half of the magnifying icon... any idea why this happens? i have moved the box over so it fits in with my skin........ 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The searchbox noraml state color is defined by the windows background color.
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hmmmmmmmm...not here its not. :NOTSURE: 
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmmmmmmmm...not here its not.
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In SKS6 go to "Change Skin Colours" > Show me the skin defined system colours > Window background

works here every time for me ~shrug~
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That dosnt work...it moved from the xy coordinates but wouldnt budge with margins...no margin setting tried(and I tried a lot)would alter the position of that search icon(or the searchbar itself).Redesigning or resizing the bottom bar is unacceptable.Power buttons will not move at all away from the searchbar.
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I had the same problem with the search box. Seems that a minimum size (height) of the bottom bar is definitely needed for a correct placement of it´s content otherwise they are forced downwards (text margins don´t do anything here...).

And for the annoying hunt for "which color is used here again" I made some simple skin where I used totally ugly but characteristic colors for each system color to find out which is which. That helped a lot.

Maybe we should publish a list of colors used in certain sections (or better some screenshot) (I made one for me for Vista Explorer)
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In SKS6 go to "Change Skin Colours" > Show me the skin defined system colours > Window background

works here every time for me ~shrug~
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my finding: I´m not shure but I think there´s a bug in SkS. For some colors changes were only seen when I edited the .uis (or .sss) directly.

obviously SkS does different things on different systems?

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It can be a little confusing...some things dont seem to change the first apply,or even the second...sometimes edited images dont change when applied...seems like SKS is slow to recognize changes sometimes. :NOTSURE: 

It can make you wonder if your doing it right. ;p  :LOL: 
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Some things require a reboot to show up :)
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Some things require a reboot to show up
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Your actually better off shutting down and restarting explorer.exe via task manager. I need to do it about every 10 applys when using Skinstudio. Things start to get borked up if you go too long. Restarting explorer.exe gets things back to smooth...for another 10 apply or so.  ;) 
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Your actually better off shutting down and restarting explorer.exe via task manager. I need to do it about every 10 applys when using Skinstudio. Things start to get borked up if you go too long. Restarting explorer.exe gets things back to smooth...for another 10 apply or so.
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Good tip!

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