[Máquina]

Anyone can help on a solution to this? I need to fix the size of tray icons and caption icons to size of 16 pixels, and modify the coordinates of iconflag of startbutton to 0,0 and remove the borders of this.... With this tweaks, the taskbar wallpaper and eppie desktop will work at most of perfection....

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[marxo]

Máquina, on Oct 1 2006, 06:32 AM, said:

Anyone can help on a solution to this? I need to fix the size of tray icons and caption icons to size of 16 pixels, and modify the coordinates of iconflag of startbutton to 0,0 and remove the borders of this.... With this tweaks, the taskbar wallpaper and eppie desktop will work at most of perfection....

Let's see if I got it... U're trying to remove borders from taskbar (to look united with wallpaper) and make icons 16x16 right?

[Máquina]

Almost this.... At fact, I want to remove just the border of startbutton; if remove the border of all taskbar, the tray goes to appear "separate", in function of this not skinned.... If possible just this, goes to a great job.... If possible this, and rid off the borders of the other buttons (MsTaskSwitch) more more more.... If possible rid off this futile separators.... I love you.... Rsssss.... Sorry for the joke...

Ah! If any programmer are intersting in dismount the "Taskbar Wallpaper" and try to skin the tray, or other function... I'll send to they happly....

Unnafortunately, I don't have some habilities in programming.... This is the most what I can do....
In the better situation, I can help with some reshacks.... I thing my works are a little good...

[marxo]

Can you attach Taskbar Wallpaper or send it to me?

[Máquina]

TM0d, on Oct 1 2006, 09:50 AM, said:

Can you attach Taskbar Wallpaper or send it to me?

Send the program, acessories archives, and the register key created by me, and a model of taskbar....

If you want, I can send the eppie desktop too, and the source code of this what I have...

Good Luck!!!

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[Máquina]

If any member need this, have "Eppie Desktop" and "Windows Make-UP"; apps to enhance the visual of the Win98 and ME, without eats lots of resources....

Have the source code of Eppie too, to programmers....

Send me a PM.

[marxo]

Taskbar Wallpaper seems little buggy to me. Because when i open it and change te wallpaper of the tasbar it doesn't show the whole picture it shows just the borders of taskbar skined... What's the prblm?

[Máquina]

TM0d, on Oct 8 2006, 04:52 AM, said:

Taskbar Wallpaper seems little buggy to me. Because when i open it and change te wallpaper of the tasbar it doesn't show the whole picture it shows just the borders of taskbar skined... What's the prblm?

What's the version of your windows, please????

At last saturday, I started my hexediting modifications.... It's very complicated, too....
But I think give some good results....
Share happly my codes with others.....

A little example....

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[LLXX]

http://img152.images.../taskbaryz6.png

That's what mine looked like after a little registry editing (explained in separate thread).

[Máquina]

LLXX, on Oct 12 2006, 11:26 PM, said:

http://img152.images.../taskbaryz6.png

That's what mine looked like after a little registry editing (explained in separate thread).

Cool.... You're equaled the shadows/lights of colors??? Can I sugest to invert the scheme?? Do 3D highlight/Darkshadow as light colors and 3D Light/Shadow as dark colors....

[LLXX]

Actually I did that because I was getting sick of the '3D' look and wanted it flat and simple.

Look under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors

They are all strings, rrr ggg bbb, Red Green Blue in that order.

Sample : http://img170.images...1/samplejh0.png

This post has been edited by LLXX: 13 October 2006 - 01:50 AM

[Máquina]

LLXX, on Oct 13 2006, 04:40 AM, said:

Actually I did that because I was getting sick of the '3D' look and wanted it flat and simple.

Look under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors

They are all strings, rrr ggg bbb, Red Green Blue in that order.

Sample : http://img170.images...1/samplejh0.png

This is my beta version of "Aero 98"

I'm trying to do modifications on code of explorer.exe to modify the tray area "Notification" to do the background at same color of clock and taskicons background, but I'm a noobie in assembly at this time....

But I'm go trying....

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[LLXX]

WTF, that looks nothing like Vista -or- 98

[Máquina]

LLXX, on Oct 14 2006, 11:13 PM, said:

WTF, that looks nothing like Vista -or- 98

It's a beta.... The caption buttons will be modified, the start button ain't no completed, and the f***%ng tray notification area is my pain..... And the colors are just a test for visualization (Reduce the bright and contrast of monitors). I call "Aero" just because the taskbar, and 98 as obvious... This is the win98, remember??? Any sugestions for colors and caption buttons are welcome, but my target is the facility of use, with bigger buttons and icons....

You say this because you don't see my toolbar of explorer.... Is a confusion of buttons....
Ps- My english is very very bad.... What is WTF

[Petr]

Máquina, on Oct 15 2006, 06:11 AM, said:

Ps- My english is very very bad.... What is WTF

Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wtf

Petr

[Máquina]

Petr, on Oct 15 2006, 05:57 AM, said:

Máquina, on Oct 15 2006, 06:11 AM, said:

Ps- My english is very very bad.... What is WTF

Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wtf

Petr

Thanks!

Aero 98, still Beta.

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[ZSXZSX]

Amazing! I just set about skinning my Windows 98 system and came across this forum! Anyway, my attempt is above and the Flickr photoset is here.

What I am really interested in is getting rid of that awful rectangle around the start button. Which registry key do you need to modify?

Edit: I like the way your taskbar looks by the way!

This post has been edited by ZSXZSX: 22 October 2006 - 03:56 AM

[esmazter]

How did you change the background of the explorer where File Edit and so on is?

I had that program on my old pc but I forgot the name.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

@ ZSXZSX thats a great looking screenshot.
Can you do mines when you finish yours.
Just kidding but really great work.

[ZSXZSX]

Thanks for your kind comments!

esmazter, on Oct 19 2006, 07:46 PM, said:

How did you change the background of the explorer where File Edit and so on is?

I had that program on my old pc but I forgot the name.

It wasn't a program, but a simple registry edit. I recommend Virtual Plastic for freeware advice on how to skin Win98SE (and more recent OSes too).

I quote:

"With IE4+ installed you can define a bitmap to be displayed behind your toolbars, in explorer and internet explorer:

* Open regedit and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar;
* Select, and on the right, rightclick and add a new string value, name it "BackBitmap";
* Rightclick on it, choose modify;
* Specify the path to your bitmap (.bmp !) and close.

If you've got IE5 installed, the BackBitmap still works then. But you may insert another string value called "BackBitmapIE5". The normal one will work for your general explorer windows; the new bitmap is specific for IE5 and Outlook!

Running IE6, or using Windows XP, though it comes with IE6, the BackBitmapIE5 value is still the same, but the string value for the explorer toolbar is now called "BackBitmapShell" (same key). Still, BackBitmap works too."

As it says, with IE6 and Win98 you can specify two different bitmaps. I'm using the green one for the general explorer window, and a blue one for Outlook Express. Going on the screenshots from places like Winsupersite and IStartedSomething, it looks like there are actually 4 different colours for the toolbars in Vista: silver (applications), green (file explorer), black (media) and blue (PIM stuff).

Anyway, it's a work in progress... today I changed the HTML code for the explorer shell (as well as the webview details pane graphic on the left), the mouse cursors and the default system font to Segoe UI.



Still hate the box around the start button!

This post has been edited by ZSXZSX: 22 October 2006 - 04:04 AM