Vista text colours.

Drop down menu.

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I recently uploaded a skin called Blue Knight, which is the first dark skin I have done. Dark backgrounds need light text colours, & there is one drop down menu i can not find how to alter the text colour.

The menu in question is the drop down one in explorer & IE7 by the forward & back buttons, the background is defined in "skin defined system colors", & the mouse over image is the menu item in controls/popup menus. I have the text colur set to white in the settings for both sections. The skin is for both XP & Vista, there are no problems in XP but in Vista the text remains black.

I have looked at a lot of Vista blinds but have not found one with light text, but a comment on Blue Knight says there are several out there that do. I know I can change the background colour, but I do not want to do this unless I have to, as I think it would alter the whole feel of the skin.

If anyone can enlighten me on this I would very much appreciate it.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Don't believe that menu's text color can be changed.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Vstyler for the quick reply. I shall have to change the background.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

text colors in Skinstudio/WB are only one thing: chaos! which kills any fun in making WB skins... :banhammer:

 

 

and it´s really ridiculous, Windows 7 is on it´s way and SkS/WB doesn´t even work with Vista (and btw also with XP) :rofl:

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

text colors in Skinstudio/WB are only one thing: chaos! which kills any fun in making WB skins...
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Not if you know what your doing... |-) there are a couple that you can't change.. no big deal.

 

Perhaps if you had spent several years coding an application to be 100% compatible with constantly changing OS's you would understand the issues a little better....maybe.

 

I can assure you W7 isn't without it's share of problems ;)