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Hallo, after update to Windows 10 21H1, Open-Shell was no more running, then I tried to reinstall it, it fails always with the Error-Box "Could not access network location *:\Program Files\Open-Shell First, I removed Open-Shell with MicrosoftProgram_Instal...

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 ...

We all find out sooner or later that the scrollbar is a separate entity.

With transparency, it is transparent to the desktop behind the menu.If you ever used the original edge browser, you would notice the sametransparent effect on the fav...

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...

Please show the revision number of Open Shell somewhere. An "about" in the right click context menu (=== open shell menu ===) would be great.

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...

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...

Woops, the 7 screenshot is still on the Win7 drive.
The one above is another capture on Win10. :) Fixed

Here is a screenshot of the Windows 7 system.I decided to put an option in the skin to have the main menu shadow turned off by default,while still l...

Other stuff.
Grandmaster, I have a question.

Have you ever seen the native Windows 7 start menu have a shadow on the right and even onto the taskbar?

Mine doesn't. I am wondering if I should put an option in the WIN7LIKE skins to disable the shadow. W...

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...

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...

I went back and changed the skin text and it has a visible split button with a magnifier bitmap.
Here is a multi-image overlayed screenshot on Windows 10:

Notice the split mag image shows even when it can't access the see more results folder. So ...

Hmm, the more I play with the "more" settings,
the more I don't think it works very well.

If I use real Windows7 os search view,
all the blue text has big font 15.

If I hover over the blue Documents text, the underline shows, and clicking...

By using an invisible split selector and this text:

;for jump viewList_split_selection=$SystemAccentDark2|$StartSelectionBackgroundList_split_selection_mask=29List_split_selection_tint1=$StartPrimaryTextList_split_selection_slices_X=2,2,2,2,2,2List_sp...

Excellent work.
I hate to say this, but I may have tried some of these things before, but forgot about them!

Here is with a freaky arrow that sort of works:

I changed to this text with an invisible image:

; LIST SECTIONList_text_p...

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 ...

If I look at the Smoked Glass .skin,
Ivo put notes about default paddings.
You can see where he overrode:

; Main_text_padding - extra padding on the left/top/right/bottom of the text in the main menu; The default is 1,2,8,2Main_text_padding=1,...

When I saw that "s_SkinError[1024];" I thought that must be the error skin that shows up when
skin bitmaps don't match the size, number or missing a bitmap.

But that error skin looks like the "No Skin" skin.

So you may be right that the numbers ma...