bonzibudd

bonzibudd ·

Currently learning C++, playing around with Windows scripting and other ins-and-outs.
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Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

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Well, that was a good 20 minutes to upload.
Phew and Yay. Done. :)

It makes me wonder if people are copying the whole CSM website to their computers for safekeeping.Much like how it was done on Open Shell GitHub. I'm guilty of that too in 2018,I used HTT...

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Can not install open shell (OpenShellSetup_4_4_160.exe)

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Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

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Win 10 probably is more linear.Still, as I found out with CSM/OSM, if one makes the skin color mask set up for the Auto accent color,it can be made to match the taskbar color,but then one has to make another more intense color mask to match up to the t...

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If you eventually run out of tint colors, there are pattern masks that you can use.Sometimes I used text set to a color, but most of the time I used a 16x16 bitmap as the reference color that tiles itself.I used both methods (opaque 0 to 255) or (2...

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Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

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I see how those menu_arrows.bmp get some of the directions in the SkinManager.cpp file:

static POINT g_ArrowSizes96[]={{0,3}, // insert left{3,6}, // middle size{6,9}, // insert right{10,14}, // right arrow{14,18}, // left arrow{18,25}, // down ...

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I don't really know, but my guess is it uses the empty skin defaults.
I found these files in ClassicStartMenuDLL in Classic-Shell-master 4.3.1

SkinDescription.txt

; Empty skin - all properties are defaults, except:

About=#7100AboutIcon=103Mai...

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Caption is only available on single column menu:

Guessing the determination would have to be in code in other files that tell it how to use t...

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Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

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I went back to your unmodified skin where it uses:Main2_new_icon_frame_selection=$SystemAccent|$StartBackgroundMain2_new_icon_frame_selection_tint1=$SystemAccentMain2_new_icon_frame_selection_mask=19Main2_new_icon_frame_selection_slices...