That means the frame bitmap must have alpha channel. By default the user picture is drawn opaque. The user image is restricted to 48x48 pixels and the frame around it is always 64x64 pixels. This limitation is because the size must match the size of the extra-large icons used by the items in the second column of the menu. Positive numbers mean offsets from the left and top.
Negative numbers mean offsets from the right and bottom. In this example the rectangle will be 10 pixels from the left, 15 from the top, 75 from the right and the bottom will be 55 from the top. Since the top and bottom numbers second and fourth are both positive, the rectangle will be aligned to the top of the menu and will always be 40 pixels tall.
Unlike other fonts in the skin, the font for the user name does not scale when the screen DPI changes. Read more about font scaling in the Scaling section below. The alignment can be center, center1, center2, left, left1, left2, right, right1 or right2. If this setting is missing, the name is centered by default. Center , left and right align the name relative to the whole menu.
Center1, left1 and right1 align inside the first column, and center2, left2 and right2 align inside the second column. The user name is usually taken from the system. For systems that provide full name it will be something like "Smith, John". Otherwise it will be the login name like "jsmith". You can override the text from the settings, using the User name text setting in the Menu Look tab.
Search box The icon next to the search box can be skinned to match the menu background. You need to provide one bitmap that contains 8 images like this: The top row has 16x16 images and the bottom row has 20x It is recommended that the top and bottom padding for all 3 backgrounds are the same, otherwise the menu items may move around as the menu transitions between different modes. Second, the skin needs some new skin items to be defined, like Shutdown , List , Programs , etc.
There are some additional bitmap resources that need to be defined, also listed in the reference section. These include the background around the search box in various modes, custom pin icon, etc. Sub-menus can also have a vertical separator. Use it to provide information about the skin and about yourself. List any requirements of your skin - Does it require Aero?
Is it intended for Vista only? The icon can be any icon resource you want displayed. If no icon is provided, the system "info" icon is used. Skin variations One skin file can contain multiple skins. The text is the name of the skin variation that will be used in the Settings box. The skin variations make it possible to pack multiple skins into one file, which makes them easier to distribute together.
Also all skins can share bitmap resources from the skin file, reducing the total size. Skin options A skin can define a list of options for the user to pick. At the end of the skin file you can have one or more sections that provide overrides for some parameters. Each section has a condition, which is evaluated based on the options that the user has selected. So it is important to place the sections at the very end of the file.
It is possible to disable an option depending on some other options. You do that by providing an expression for the option, as well as an alternate default value when the expression is false.
When the option is disabled, its value will be fixed to 0. The idea is to make it clear for the user that if you don't show the user name then you can't center it. Important Note: An option can only depend on other options that are defined before it. The value can be a number, a text string, a color or an image. The condition for the option is TRUE , which makes it always enabled. Check out the Metallic skin for many examples of complex options.
Skin modes The classic skins the ones stored in. The first and the second are used depending on the current menu style.
The last one is used on Windows 7 to show the All Programs sub-menu of the Windows start menu. The skin can use them to detect which of the modes is being requested.
For example the caption settings can't be used in "two columns" mode, and any main menu settings are ignored in "all programs" mode. This is called a radio group. It has a name, then the value which is ignored , then the list of the possible options.
The next few options define the possible selections. Exactly one of them must be set to 1 and that will be the default selection. When the user clicks on one of the options the rest will be set to 0 automatically.
When the skin is used at higher DPI setting you have the option to scale up some of the parameters. Not all skin parameters support scaling. For example bitmap slices cannot be scaled because they represent portions of some bitmap resource. The parameters that can be scaled are marked as such in the reference section. If you want the font to scale, you should use the same scale for the user name position.
Use it for example to define larger graphical elements like arrows and icons. Localization The built-in skins contain localizations for all their options and variations.
Instead of providing the text directly in the skin file, the setting refers to a string in the localization DLL. Custom skins can use the strings that already exist in the DLL, but unfortunately new strings cannot be added by the skin itself.
Custom skin During development it can be a bother to have to Resource-Hack the skin file for every little change. That's why the start menu supports a special "custom" skin.
Instead of packing all resources in a DLL, you can leave them as loose files in the Skins directory: 1. The file name must be the resource ID of that asset in the skin file. For example Edit them until you are ready to package them into a skin file. The "Custom" skin option is available in the settings only if the start menu can find the 1.
Use it to see how your background image will look on an Arabic OS. Note: The RTL emulation is not perfect. One notable difference is that all menu icons are mirrored. On a real RTL Windows they will not be. Troubleshooting If your skin is causing an error, the start menu will drop it and use the Default skin instead.
It uses refreshed design elements with transparency and depth, following the design of Windows Fluent-Metro is designed for Windows It is incompatible with Windows 7 and 8. To start, you will need Open-Shell. Open-Shell is a highly regarded Start menu replacement for Windows and is used by many enthusiasts.
During installation, you can choose to not include the Explorer and IE integration, as it is not necessary for the Start menu feature. To install, copy the Fluent-Metro. Next, navigate to the "Skins" tab, and from the dropdown, choose Fluent-Metro the name may be different on pre-release versions.
Make sure to unzip! The new interface will be applied. You can further change the links for the tiles under "Customize Start Menu. If you notice that the menu looks off-color, set the Menu glass color to in Open-Shell Settings under "Menu Look".
This will prevent your accent color from bleeding into the menu background. Very well made with lots of options. Makes Windows 7 worth using. Saves me from daily frustration. Thank you so much! No more frustration, I can work just like I used to! Thank you!
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Thanks for your support! Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. Real visual styles, not just themes is what actually make Windows UI unique. Of course! This was made possible by several tools. In Windows 7 an experienced custom visual style creator could have done most of the work inside the VS itself but moving forward to later Windows versions the less customizability we get the more different tools we need to use in order to achieve our desired results so here are the details:.
First of all, using our preferred method we need to enable custom visual style support. In order to make taskbar grey, add custom Start button and menu I use Classic Shell. You shall now be able to experience your Windows 10 in a unique way. Many thanks. I will try myself. The custom visual style you shared looks very interesting.
Would you happen to still have it somewhere and possibly re-upload it?
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