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Currently learning C++, playing around with Windows scripting and other ins-and-outs.
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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I guess it all depends on the floating sides.

Very true. For now, the extra space on the outside is the same for all DPIs, so everything should be relatively linear. But I'll probably have to consider that if I change it in the future.

By the...

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Got it. I ended up going with this:

Main_padding=14,14,5,14,36%,36%,100%,36%

If my math is correct, this should be the same as how I did it before, at least for all reasonable DPI settings. And it looks like OSM does round up and down correctly, so hopef...

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Continuing the topic of DPI, I have a question about scale factors: If I used a scale factor with a decimal, for example 35.7, do you know if Open-Shell will recognize the decimal? I'm currently trying to replace the custom paddings at different DPIs with ...

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Just a thought, but maybe the extra horizontal could be for a caption in the Classic2 style? Unless it has already been tested of course. Then again, I'm not sure how the program could determine which group would go to each item.

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Ok, I tried the icon frame selection, and it seems to work well! I think I will go with that, since it's not much worse looking than the previous one. It's also better since I won't need to make new selection slices for each DPI, when I get to that point.T...

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I'll post something else here if I find any other roadblocks. But it seems to be been going pretty smoothly so far.