Style Builder issues

A) 1.add text color property to toolbar or toolbar button in stylebuider
or
2. reshack the app

B) 3D edge have 4 different colors,
3D-light,inner-top right(or inner-bottom left as in sunken edge)
3D-hi-light,outer-top right(or outer-bottom left as in sunken edge)
3D-shadow,inner-bottom left(...)
3D-dark shadow,...

xp's menu use 3D-shadow as outline and separate's first line,3D-hi-light as separate's second line

but it could be used by any app's UI or even css style to match local theme,get 3Dcc and try it out,you will understand it soon,

but in this case,the upper No.1 is a groupbox ,it could use image texture instead in stylebuider

C) same as above

Thanks for the reply, I have no idea what all this means yet, but I hope to figure it out in the process.

I came across another little problem, maybe you pro's know to solve?

D)
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1315/70720403on8.jpg

1. I simply can not find where to change that text colour, I was able to change all of the text, but not this. Maybe it is associated with another value somewhere?

2. The buttons have the grey text colour, in StyleBuilder I set it to white and you can see it in SB like that, but the actual theme remain same. Is that a glitch?

No.1 is Editbox,No.2 is pushbutton,it both has sub property to define text color,if you can't add property in SB,try to edit the xml file in your project folder,like this

<PART Name="Pushbutton">

.......

<STATE Name="Defaulted">
<Property Name="TextColor" Value="120 120 120"/>
[/STATE]
<STATE Name="Disabled">
<Property Name="TextColor" Value="160 160 160"/>
[/STATE]
<STATE Name="Hot">
<Property Name="TextColor" Value="72 72 72"/>
[/STATE]
<STATE Name="Normal">
<Property Name="TextColor" Value="120 120 120"/>
[/STATE]
<STATE Name="Pressed">
<Property Name="TextColor" Value="72 72 72"/>
[/STATE]


you can edit the xml based on whatever you need,as long as there's no apply error

Thanks, that helped with some other things aswell. Can't believe I didn't find these button colours...


No.1 was meant the black text at the dark grey background, top of the editbox, maybe that picture is more clear:

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/3048/21739660xt0.jpg

Indeed, the numbers inside the editbox (or is that listbox?) are black too, but editing the editbox/listbox (incl. the sub properties) seems not to help much.


Thanks again for your help.

By the way, this is my first real skinning attempt, is the WindowBlinds skin editor better than StyleBuilder? I remember from an "ancient" free WB editor that you could even edit some of the icons. Maybe I purchase WB and make a better skin, not sure yet.

I think that's Y'Z shadow's dialog,isn't it,I check my own Y'Z shadow,those colors are also black,that I guess this could mean those colors are defined by the app itself,otherwise I'm not sure,this kind of problem is worse when you use a dark theme,a dark background is not consider as a default color scheme by most app

those icons you mentioned in WB could be reshacked in shell32.dll mostly,and some other system resources file

It is very good possible that some programs use their own text colour, but in my case it is a general problem. I noticed that it is the description text.

As for the numbers in the edit/listbox, other windows use the normal window text for this, which works, but Y'Z Shadows maybe uses the description text for this, because it is black like the actual description text.

By the way, I wonder if it is possible to remove/change that WinXP logo you got at the top right of the window. I guess needs to be reshacked, too.

Ok, Y'z toolbar for the flag icon. ;)

Simply I just add test color property to almost everywhere needed in SB,not smart but useful,and won't cos apply error

the logo could be hidden by edit register or change through reshack

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser

google it,I don't recall the detail