2of3

reply 20

Quoting 1nsomn1ac,

reply 19

you're partly right, i used the color for button face background in primary substyle (light skin),
 but for dark substyle i have changed it, it doesn't seem to have any effect.

I'm not partly right.

I'm either right or I'm wrong.

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i know you're right but in this case unfortunately doesn't work, dunno why.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1396/4h2scg.png

i deleted the light substyle, rename the dark sub, save it as a single sub wba, change to other skin,
delete style, apply the new renamed wba, and.... no effect, even reboot the computer has no effect, even change the color palette in light substyle didn't work, strange 

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/5255/0wg5ac.png

edit: change picture to include the windows properties.

The are some colors forced by the operating system that you have no control over whatsoever. Microsoft doesn't care about people who want to customize the OS at all.

i have vstyler's venom, it looks great without white lines all over the place like mine  

I saw this happened on my skin before. Usually it came from very old skin. Did you create this one from building on a very old skin? When I get this I go hunting for that color. In my case usually it is not white so it quite easy to look for it and change to something else. Use Color pick and search that color setting in those old files. Sometimes is just color setting, but there also times there is odd bitmap files with that color on it.

Or you can start over a new build from a newer skin.

Just my 2 cents.  

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

basj

reply 24

I saw this happened on my skin before. Usually it came from very old skin. Did you create this one from building on a very old skin? When I get this I go hunting for that color. In my case usually it is not white so it quite easy to look for it and change to something else. Use Color pick and search that color setting in those old files. Sometimes is just color setting, but there also times there is odd bitmap files with that color on it.

Or you can start over a new build from a newer skin.

Just my 2 cents.  

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

thanks for your input Basj.
i started the light substyle in 2009, feels like yesterday not old.
i stopped using wb after win7 replaced by 10, and started using it again in the last 2 weeks, then started tweaking some ancient skins to look proper in win10.
i did what you suggest, i know that the white around dropdown box is color i use for text,
and the white in button face background came from the light substyle.
i open uis/sss & xp files and search for those specific color code/color number, but unfortunately didn't find anything useful.
since i know where the specific color came from, i know it wasn't forced by os and must be able to be changed, i just don't know it yet.
therefore any feedback is appreciated & considered, thank you Basj  

solved! finally can get rid of all white lines  

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/2033/z1tXZ6.png
so happy, many thanks to Taekogae, LightStar, 2of3 & Basj for being very helpful.
stay safe & healthy all  

one final question, just to make sure coz i've been away from wb for years.

are all these white background normal or there is something i can do to change them? how?

thank you

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3001/EYi9x8.png

Run and control panel backgrounds are hard coded white.

Search bar can be replaced with an image in the same section where you did the address bar..... look for Search field background.

Note: The search field in windows 10 only supports 1 state so you might as well draw it as a single image and change the image count to 1.

noted for run & cp.

as for the search bar, too bad it doesnt work, i'll be very happy if it does.

already made 1 state & image count to 1, but nothing changed.

i've tried everything i can think of, using tga, bmp, also change the top glass, delete the top glass etc, nothing works  

I very rarely skin the address bar. I don't care much for a state change on mouseover......especially because it doesn't actually work like it's supposed too (there should be 4 states according to the help button: Normal, Mouseover, Disabled, and Focus) Disabled state doesn't work and what's the diff between focus and mouse? Is focus "active but not mouse"? Dunno. One more example of inconsistent terminology/mislabeling/legacy functions.

i did as suggested, but it didn't work either.
it's okay, now i know i dont need to look for something that doesn't exist.
actually i'm just curious since i saw some themes with uxthemepatcher have no limit in customizing every parts of windows, wb used to be like that years ago.

agree in terms of functionality, but the default bar is huge, just look at the comparison, not very fond of it.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/7361/2I7M6M.png

i like that the bar is slightly narrow in normal state and widens when i hover my mouse over, but this huge white box ruined everything   

anyway, thank you for answering my question, at least much clearer for me now about what can be done and what can't.

thank you  

The search bar has been changed in appearance and behavior even since the first version of windows 10. I wish MS would just leave shit alone!

I didn't realize that you were showing "typing" mode on the searchbar. Yes, that is also hard coded. One thing to note is that It's showing black on my system which I assume is due to the fact that I have the windows dark theme selected in personalization.

oh i see, ok then