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Black Mesa by !valkyre:iconvalkyre:

Categories Customization > Skins & Themes > Windows Utilities > Visual Styles

©2005-2009 !valkyre
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Black Mesa

Update: I fixed the black text in the detail box in the shellstyle. It's now white, as it should be.

It's finally arrived. Incredibly, this theme has survived a year of neglect, tons of bugs, a hard drive wipe, and even being started over from scratch! I've always liked dark themes, but either found them too dark, or plagued by hardcoded black text, making it unreadable. So I decided, against my better judgement, to attempt to create a dark theme that was both uber-sleek and usable at the same time. This is the result. :o

I will be releasing a VSRK for this VS. What's a VSRK? Why, a Visual Style Resource Kit! It will include all the Photoshop resource files for you to play around with, study, and use for future modifications.

A compact menu and thin taskbar is included, so there's no need to ask. :giggle:

I'm currently adding a database of bug reports, but please feel free to submit any bugs you notice, even if I'm already aware of them. Thank yooooou! :p

Enjoy, you deviants! :)

Whoops! I almost forgot, I'd like to thank curran for beta testing this for me. He tested it a lot and was very helpful. Drop by his site, deftunes and listen to his radio program!

VERSION 2 IS AVAILABLE HERE

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:iconpleko:
~pleko Jun 1, 2005, 9:42:08 PM
that is an awesome theme :D wicked stuff and thanks :D

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=hombre-cz Jun 1, 2005, 9:43:09 PM
looks nice :clap: i try it ;)
:icondefault9:
~default9 Jun 1, 2005, 9:43:34 PM
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA FINALLY
god damn bugs
:icondefault9:
~default9 Jun 1, 2005, 9:51:59 PM
--- man i need to update my nick
------- me = will curran
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~mykel-- Jun 1, 2005, 10:25:46 PM
i like it! plain, simple, very effectave! definate must-use :) the only issue i have with it is the default font. i switched everything to tahoma (a more compact verdana, really) and it looks great ('sides for needing to resize the caption buttons also (to 19)). for once, a simple and useful non-white minimalistic skin! :)

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~rdj550 Jun 2, 2005, 12:47:13 AM
i love it... amazing
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*snowman Jun 2, 2005, 12:47:53 AM
1: The black text in the details box in the shellstyle. Could not figure out how to change this, if it was at all possible.

at the very end/bottom of UIFILE1 you'll find this:
(I hope all this shows up right - *crosses fingers that DevArt doesnt strip any of the tags*)

/style
style resid=NameSpaceItemInfoList
NameSpaceItemInfo
{
contentalign: wrapleft;
background: argb(0,0,0,0);
margin: rect(0rp,5rp,0rp,0rp);
}
NameSpaceItemInfo [id=atom(InfoName)]
{
fontweight: rcint(10);
}
NameSpaceItemInfo [id=atom(InfoType)]
{
margin: rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,0rp);
}
/style

add a line after each 'margin: etc" so it looks like this

/style
style resid=NameSpaceItemInfoList
NameSpaceItemInfo
{
contentalign: wrapleft;
background: argb(0,0,0,0);
margin: rect(0rp,5rp,0rp,0rp);
foreground: white;
}
NameSpaceItemInfo [id=atom(InfoName)]
{
fontweight: rcint(10);
}
NameSpaceItemInfo [id=atom(InfoType)]
{
margin: rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,0rp);
foreground: white;
}
/style


I hope its clearly enough explained.


Oh and..... nice VS ;)

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:iconxonecas:
~xonecas Jun 2, 2005, 1:21:57 AM
maybe a realease with thin taskbar ?
:iconjark:
°jark Jun 2, 2005, 1:50:06 AM
very nicely done valk!

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~t0rnad0 Jun 2, 2005, 3:19:29 AM
very nice VS! was w8ing for something like this! :D great job!!
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