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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...

Looks good for the most part, I did make some changes since those earlier releases though (and the classic styles), so I'll do a new description.

You can make some further changes if something doesn't seem clear. Also, for the imag...

Very interesting, thanks for that info. I will try that Aero Compatible program, and I might even try to mess around with Blender to see if I can vaguely replicate the appearance. I feel like there has to be some way to balance out the alpha opacity bett...

Hi @CTVCAM8

It's been a minute, I hope you are doing well. I feel like I have gotten to a good place with my Fluent-Metro/Immersive skinning stuff, but I had a question about one thing, which is how you do stuff with Premultiplied alpha. If it's not too c...

Hi. Not many people know about this page.
It will be better if you go to this:

Ok, that background opacity does make sense. I don't know if I'm going to change anything yet, but I might end up just forcing the opaque scrollbar that I have already created, which uses the immersive colors.

In the meantime, I'm going to keep working ...

Ok, I finally came back to this thread, and I have a question about the scrollbar for the Windows 7 style menu.

On my Windows 10 skin, there are options for both a transparent and opaque left-hand side, and while the opaque scrollbar works fine, the tra...

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...

Yeah, I did notice the shadow difference. I don't think I've ever seen a main menu shadow on the Win7 menu, but there might have been some tweaks to enable it under certain circumstances.

One thing that I did realize is that Windows Vista actually d...

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...

Well, just had a dumb realization. It turns out that I actually added the tint color #000000, not $StartPrimaryText. So I can actually still add the shadow. I've also decided to add a thin border around the outside for now, and keep the padding relatively ...

Yeah, I've been playing around with the shadows. Unfortunately I had to add another tint color designated to $StartPrimaryText to the main bitmap in order to make the colors match Win10 better. I might be able to come up with some creative so...

Going back to the list section and the different fonts for search/jump.

It seems like it is, in fact possible. I started by setting the "More" bitmap to resource 1, interestingly setting it to 0 does not work as described in the Metro skin. From what ...

I've been digging around the source code, looks like I found those default paddings. I never realized the text padding was so small.

It looks like there may also be some references to the color bleed, but I can't tell if it's just referring to the glass...

That's an idea. However I think that the opacity should theoretically have nothing to do with the bleed, if we want the skin to solely rely on the supplied color and not the glass color. If it's the best solution, it could be worked with, but I also thin...

Acrylic would definitely be nice to have. Especially now, where it seems that Aero glass may be on its last legs with those flashes in the submenu. In general, I think there's a lot that could be done to "clean up" Open-Shell and its functionality, whether...

Good work! Looks closer and closer to the original Win7 menu.I have always thought that the search and jump views were defined strangely in Open-Shell, but as far as I can tell, there's no way to differentiate the font/separator. There is also the "Search ...

I just checked out WIN7LIKE revB. Looks very nice, I like the extra space in between the main2 items, and it looks like you added many improvements overall. The new glass selector looks much better than I thought was easily obtainable. This is really n...

A bit of a sanity check.When you set a classic style menu to 120DPI, which section of the bitmap does the search magnifier use?I just tested this with a couple skins, and for some reason they seem to be using the high DPI (bottom row) section of the bitmap...

Ok, I see. I'll probably change those going forward then.

Question about the classic styles and their corresponding options.If I take a look at the "Metro.skin" file, I can see the options list and the options assigned to each style. However, there seems to be another factor at play for determining which options ...

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 ...

Interesting.I guess those defaults must be determined by Windows, because that's the only reference of defaults I found. It shouldn't be too hard to replicate, though. I am specifically looking for the defaults for submenu text and icons. I'll just assume ...

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...

I have a question about some default values. Do you happen to know the resource in Open-Shell that defines the default paddings? I'm trying to add some overrides and I want it to be precise as possible, then I will change it from there. I've looked around ...