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    A Quick Look at Taskbar Editing

    I posted this as an answer to somebody's question, but thought i would add here in the correct place for any one looking for info on this.

    A quick look at how to edit a taskbar,
    The main Aero taskbar images can be found at these locations.

    Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBar > Aero > TaskBar > BackgroundBottom , = section 1 of image below,
    Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBand > Aero > TaskBand > BackgroundBottom, = section 2 of image below,
    Taskbar & System Tray > System Tray > Basic > Horizontal > TrayNotify > Background, = section 3 of image below,
    Taskbar & System Tray > TaskBar > Aero > Show Desktop Button > Button, = section 4 of image below,



    You will noticed that most images are signifigantly smaller than they appear in a theme, this is because windows style builder re-sizes the images as and when it needs too.

    Take section 2 of that image for example, you can use the Sizing parameters to Stretch or Tile the image, Tiling is better for images with patterns, Stretch is better if there is no pattern.

    As you can see in this picture, the Sizing Parameter is set to Tile, and the Sizing margin is set to 0, 0, 33, 2, (Left, Right, Top, Bottom)



    If you change the left and right numbers, to say 10, 10, 33, 2 for example, then the first 10 pixels on left and right of the image would not be tiled (or stretched).

    The same principle applys to most of the theme images in WSB.

    Check out Dave Seniors guide for more locations.
    https://virtualcustoms.net/showthread...Theme-Building


    Theme i used for this example is M-Class by Mr Grim.

    I should of used one of mine, but this one was close at hand, and what im using at the minute. ..But feel free to open up one of my themes and mess about.

    Hope this helps some.
    Last edited by gor17981; June 21st, 2012 at 01:22 PM.


 

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