Solved Black Glass Enhanced

[Rand Marks]

Hi,

The program Black Glass Enhanced 0.5 doesn’t work with the default Windows 7 theme. Why is that?

Rand Marks

 

[Dinesh]

Are you referring to this theme?

 

[Rand Marks]

Hi, Dinesh,

Yes, I am. However, it’s not a theme; it’s a program.

 

[Dinesh]

You should look at these tutorials:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/28377-theme-how-apply-custom-themes.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/34579-enabling-custom-themes-windows-7-a.html

 

[Rand Marks]

I have already patched my system. I can use custom themes just fine. The problem is that Black Glass Enhanced works just fine with certain custom themes but not all themes, namely 7.5 and the default theme.

 

[Dinesh]

What happens when you apply this theme?

Do you get an error msg?

 

[Rand Marks]

No error message. This is what happens.

 

[Arc]

Hello Rand. Black Glass program works appropriately with only those themes those having a black/dark explorer background. It has the ability to make some other program windows transparent, too; only when the program window backgrounds are black.

But it you have black glass enabled with a non-black theme, you will face a situation as in the uploaded picture, hazy and non prominent text. What I have said, it is for black themes only.

When you are applying a non black theme back, you need to stop black glass. Enhance the system trey notification area, right click on the black glass icon and exit. Close the open windows and then reopen those.

Hopefully the glitch will not be there anymore.

 

[Rand Marks]

Hello Rand. Black Glass program works appropriately with only those themes those having a black/dark explorer background. It has the ability to make some other program windows transparent, too; only when the program window backgrounds are black.

But it you have black glass enabled with a non-black theme, you will face a situation as in the uploaded picture, hazy and non prominent text. What I have said, it is for black themes only.

When you are applying a non black theme back, you need to stop black glass. Enhance the system trey notification area, right click on the black glass icon and exit. Close the open windows and then reopen those.

Hopefully the glitch will not be there anymore.

Hi, Arc,

Thanks for your reply. That was actually one of my guesses. I tried to change the backgrounds to black, but it didn’t work. I’ll try again.

 

[Arc]

Hello Rand. Actually what you are trying? It cannot change any background to black, but changes a black background to transparent; and a non black background to hazy unreadable.

 

[Rand Marks]

I am trying to change the background color of Explorer so that I can use any theme I want with Black Glass Enhanced.

 

[Arc]

Then you need it. Ave's Windows7 Style Builder

 

[Bongo]

To change the background color of Explorer is at Explorer & Shell > Explorer > Items View > ItemsView > Fillcolor:Color

If you want to do the navigation pane is at Explorer & Shell > Explorer > ProperTree > <2> > Fillcolorhint:color

Jerry

 

[Rand Marks]

Thanks, Jerry; it worked! However, a new problem has arisen (not surprising): the text in Explorer has become transparent, too, because it’s black. Is there a way to change the font color in Explorer only rather than all windows?

 

[Bongo]

Yes there is a way to change just that Explorer text color look at this thread http://www.sevenforums.com/themes-styles/273795-wsb-font-color-help.html it is not untell about post #26 where I have figured out how to change that text (I learned something new from that thread).
It is in the shellstyle.dll in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\YOUR THEME\Shell\NormalColor folder.


m4ksta found what line it is.

its the line numbers and the effected fonts when edited in resource hacker so line 81 is the main item view explorer window text.

Jerry

 

[Rand Marks]

Thanks, Bongo! Got BGE workin’ great now. However, I still have some Explorer troubles, if I may.

When I hover my cursor over text in the address bar, a white box appears. How can I disable this? I would prefer no change on hovering. Also, is there a way to remove the refresh button in Explorer? I never use it.

 

[Bongo]

Try one of these.
Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Breadcrumb > Basic > Normal > Active Crumbs > Button > Hot

Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Breadcrumb > Basic > Normal > Active Crumbs > SplitButton > Hot

Address, Breadcrumb & Search > Breadcrumb > Basic > Normal > Active Crumbs > SplitButtonDropDown > Hot

The refresh button is part of a bitmap image #288 in the ExplorerFrame.dll

Jerry

 

[Rand Marks]

Thanks again, Jerry! Success.

 

[Bongo]

You're welcome