I'm running a whole bunch of tools; 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, Open Shell Menu, T-Clock Redux, plus a lot of registry tweaks from WinAero Tweaker and other places. I don't think I've ever seen the taskbar icon not blink in sync with the window titlebar when something calls FlashWindow, though.
It seems to work for me: the 5th taskbar button frame should be the "flashing" image. It will cycle between that image and the regular one to perform the flashing, and after a few cycles it will end with the "flashing" image in place on the taskbar. Here's an example using the Midnight style:
I like the resizable window and vertical scrolling! It feels a lot more like a normal windows program now. The prompt to close open UWP apps is a nice touch, and I like the addition of suggested colors. It doesn't look like any UWP apps are being styled, though. I tried toggling the global "apply styles to UWP apps" and manually changing the per-app settings, but nothing seems to take. In the suggested colors section, allowing double-clicking to edit a color
Yeah, full support of SVG would theoretically be nice, because you could represent all the sizes, states, and layers in one file, and allow for all sorts of neat recoloring. On the other hand, you'd need an advanced svg editing tool to be able to manage a file like that (or else create it manually?), and Windows's native SVG support might not be good enough. In that case would have to include its own SVG renderer and the code complexity would probably jump 10x. I'm fine with
I definitely like the new Buttons tab; makes it more obvious what applies to which button, and the descriptions are good, except for the one for background buttons that says "There are sections for close, normal, and left buttons." Better wording might be "Changing these settings will apply to all buttons, except Close and Back which have their own settings," or something like that (assuming I'm understanding it right). Are there any buttons other than Back that are on the left?</
It looks like when you are on the main Styles selection page and click the [Colors] button, it always loads whatever your current accent color is into the picker, even if you selected the 2nd/3rd style color and have a different color chip selected. It should probably load whatever the 'current' selected color is. The color pickers in the Edit Styles -> Colors tab do the right thing (loading whatever color is visible in the "Change Color" button).
Thanks! I can see where having separate top/bottom or left/right taskbar images would be useful, if you wanted the appearance of something "attached" to the appropriate edge of the screen.
[quote who="innuendo33" reply="16" id="3780166"] I was wondering if there is or will be a user manual to easily figure how to mess / edit with styles config file ? Understanding sections and values ( example : I saw somewhere values like " Right / Left/ Top/ bottom " are there refering to margins / offsets or dimensions ? [/quote] Those are numbers that affect image resizing. The numbers represent how many pixels are fixed at each margin. T
[quote who="vk1337" reply="11" id="3780104"] In my case (explorer.exe and UWP apps) regular AND maximized looks the same: But it should look like that: [/quote] That's just the XP Luna style; the author used the same image for bo
[quote who="sdRohan" reply="1" id="3779998"] Added non-dpi specific versions of close, max, min, restore, help [/quote] It looks like the Glyph.MinButton and Glyph.RestoreButton images aren't being applied. You can test by copying the XP Luna theme for example, then editing the .CURTAINSTYLE file, replacing the Glyph.* blocks with: [Glyph.CloseButton] Image=glyph-close.png [Glyph.MaxButton] Image=glyph-max.png [Glyph.M
[quote who="emelloy" reply="37" id="3779864"] Maybe it could force us to make a copy of themes for editing, and only allow editing the copy. Or a revert button in the right click menu on the main page, or even a confirmation instead of applying every change immediately. [/quote] I like the instant application of changes myself; it makes the edit-test cycle a lot quicker. When I know I am about to make a major set of changes, I just make a copy end edit the copy until I
The hardest part is probably generating the gradient image in the first place, since I don't think either MSPaint or Paint 3D can do it easily. Luckily, there's a free program called "Paint.net" ( https://www.getpaint.net/ ) that has a nice interface and comes with a gradient tool. Download, install, and run it, and press Ctrl-N (or File->New) to create a new image at 1920x32 px (or whatever your monitor's width is). Then use the Co
I think some of the Advanced settings are not getting applied, or else I'm misunderstanding how they work. None of the following settings seem to make any effect on button appearance: Button.ActiveMinimizeBackgroundBlock, Button.ActiveRestoreBackgroundBlock, Button.InactiveBackground, Button.InactiveCloseBackground, Button.InactiveMinimizeBackgroundBlockColoured, Button.InactiveRestoreBackgroundBlockColoured Are some of these just casualties of a
I'm seeing some odd behavior with recoloring. As a test, I have a solid-white window titlebar image, and set it to "recolor using the selected secondary color (forced)", which I believe should result in the titlebar becoming the user-selected color. However, red isn't always being applied correctly. Greys become greenish, and red tones become grayish. Solid red becomes full black: <colgroup span=
[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="15" id="3778310"] Looking at it the issue is being triggered by you using OpenShell. Which version of OpenShell are you using? Also please don't use ShadowFX with Curtains as it is redundant given the shadow offerings in Curtains now. [/quote] It looks like some of my issues were a combination of all the other UI-tweaking apps I have installed. To make debugging a little easier, I have uninstalled Aero Glass, Open Sh
[quote who="DaveRI" reply="6" id="3778243"] Win10 v1909 build 18363.778 Ultimately a "nothing-burger" for me but I should mention it. After installing this beta, the first time I applied a Curtains theme Explorer instantly went into a constant crash-reload loop, while the Curtains UI was still open, which I stopped by applying the Default theme once again. After that, themes loaded fine. [/quote] I have had a crash-loop happen also, but only when playi
[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="18" id="3777803"]The combo box is a standard control. The box will show the currently selected item at the top of the list and this will typically appear under the control (unless there is no room). Standard combo boxes do not show the selected item directly under the mouse. As the list is very large, if you do not have room under the box then the list would appear above which might be the issue you are seeing here? If you click a
It is certainly fun to play with the existing styles, but creating one from scratch seems pretty complex. Not nearly as complicated as WindowBlinds, though, so that's a plus :) It looks like it might be possible to build a convincing Windows 95/Classic/Chicago theme with this. Here is a list of UI bugs/suggestions: Tab order in some of the the [Edit Style] sections is broken. Go to [Shadows], [Colors], or [Advanced], select a field, hit tab a cou