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Description
Changing the looking of vista visual style.
[on a position that the font letters would be on the center of the height of your Header.Item on explore, updated with 2 methods!

1. method

Changing the height of Header.Item for Windows Vista :
[this method has minor ''bugs'' as on welcome center of shorter first mouse over horizontal line ,and to the position of top arrow on scrolbar on a window(explorer style) also [both are 4 pixels up)see picture.

[for a perfect solution must be found the hex adresses of tabitem properties and do the hex editing changes on variant of visual style, so for that see 2nd method]

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1st method[more simple but with minor bugs]

Open your shellstyle.dll with resource hacker, [open uifile/1/1033], then select view , find text and writte : clientviewhost
then add a new line code named : padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" to look like
-----------------------------------

foreground="themeable(ARGB(255, 0, 0, 0), windowtext)"
background="themeable(ARGB(0, 252, 252, 252), window)"
sortcolumn="themeable(ARGB(0, 252, 252, 252), window)"
padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)"
subtext="ARGB(255, 139, 139, 139)"
animation="rectangle|s|fast"

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then select again view , find next and again add the line padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" , to any of the exist .
then select compile script, and save it.

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You can change those values, specialy for the height change the second value[-4] (of padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)")for making your desired height of tab item size.

After doing these you must redesign the images 551,552,554,556,558,559[chage the internal shapes of them, not resize them] of Images of windows vista visual style.

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The conclusion of this and many other changings is that on vista visual style does not exist code that existed on xp.
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For a perfect solution as i have written , mut be found and changed hex adresses on Variant.

[SO with the new ukintel's work ([HEX EDITING] IMAGE and CONTENTS MARGINS - Modify Vista Image properties) could make a better solution SEE [link] ]
SO see the 2nd metod:

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2. method [you must have knowlege on hex editing] (for header.Item on explorer)

Using the second method , we dont change shellstyle.dll parameters [ if you have done please set on parameter padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" to padding="rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,0rp)" ].

2nd method. ( not having the bugs appearing in the 1st)

We must find on code where are the positions of the images that we use on tab items and then changing the IMAGE MARGINS and the CONTENTS MARGINS.

so we open with resource hacker the visual style, then select Variant , Normal, 1033 .

then select Action, Save recource as a binary file, select save it as Variant.

Open this Variant with hex EDITOR like Tiny Hexer, then search for images 551 ---> 2702 , 552 ---> 2802 , 554 ---> 2A02 , 559 ---> 2F02 .

Make sure you are NOT using "Insert Mode" (View/insert mode) as we only want to overwrite the hex code.

now i explain how to do that: press Ctrl and F , AND on the search menu of Tiny Hexer writte 2702 [ this is the hex number for 551.png image of tab items], then you see a part with numbers.

use the number TEN=10(s) as a marker. (after the second 10 is image margins) (after the third 10 is contents margins)

After you do this for all the images i described.[searching for 2702,2802 ,2A02,2F02]

Then save it.

YOU reopen resource hacker select Variant , Normal, 1033 , right clik to 1033 and select Replace resource , then open file with the new resource and save it as :VARIANT/NORMAL/1033.

Then resize image 551 to 20x204 , 552 and 554 to 20x51 and image 559 to 15x34.[width x height]

THATS it.

Thanks to Uk intel for the new method.

[also thanks to psycob because he had show us how to search on code, on past]

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hope in future having a more specific solution.
you can also make your experiments with the values are marked to the images, or with the designing of images, for having better results[but be carefull with the height of distances].

this modification it works, thou i know that pechaps need more work, for been more accurate.

This must be known because i feel responsible for it.

there are many parameters not ''translated'' yet, like :

[Header.HeaderItem]
AccentColorHint =
Bgtype = imagefile
ContentMargins =
FillColorHint =
ImageCount = 12
ImageFile = 551
ImageLayout =
SizingMargins =
SizingType =
Transparent =

[Header]
Bgtype = imagefile
ImageFile =559
SizingMargins =
SizingType =
TRANSPARENT =

[also psycob in his bister theme use as sizing margins (on 551) : 02, 02, 07, 08] and for 559 i suggest : 02, 00, 07, 08 . ]

so, this is just a start, hope with help , could be better one, so to be images appearing more accurate.

enjoy.

Description
Changing the looking of vista visual style.
[on a position that the font letters would be on the center of the height of your Header.Item on explore, updated with 2 methods!

1. method

Changing the height of Header.Item for Windows Vista :
[this method has minor ''bugs'' as on welcome center of shorter first mouse over horizontal line ,and to the position of top arrow on scrolbar on a window(explorer style) also [both are 4 pixels up)see picture.

[for a perfect solution must be found the hex adresses of tabitem properties and do the hex editing changes on variant of visual style, so for that see 2nd method]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1st method[more simple but with minor bugs]

Open your shellstyle.dll with resource hacker, [open uifile/1/1033], then select view , find text and writte : clientviewhost
then add a new line code named : padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" to look like
-----------------------------------

foreground="themeable(ARGB(255, 0, 0, 0), windowtext)"
background="themeable(ARGB(0, 252, 252, 252), window)"
sortcolumn="themeable(ARGB(0, 252, 252, 252), window)"
padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)"
subtext="ARGB(255, 139, 139, 139)"
animation="rectangle|s|fast"

------------------------------------------
then select again view , find next and again add the line padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" , to any of the exist .
then select compile script, and save it.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can change those values, specialy for the height change the second value[-4] (of padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)")for making your desired height of tab item size.

After doing these you must redesign the images 551,552,554,556,558,559[chage the internal shapes of them, not resize them] of Images of windows vista visual style.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The conclusion of this and many other changings is that on vista visual style does not exist code that existed on xp.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
For a perfect solution as i have written , mut be found and changed hex adresses on Variant.

[SO with the new ukintel's work ([HEX EDITING] IMAGE and CONTENTS MARGINS - Modify Vista Image properties) could make a better solution SEE [link] ]
SO see the 2nd metod:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. method [you must have knowlege on hex editing] (for header.Item on explorer)

Using the second method , we dont change shellstyle.dll parameters [ if you have done please set on parameter padding="rect(0rp,-4rp,0rp,0rp)" to padding="rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,0rp)" ].

2nd method. ( not having the bugs appearing in the 1st)

We must find on code where are the positions of the images that we use on tab items and then changing the IMAGE MARGINS and the CONTENTS MARGINS.

so we open with resource hacker the visual style, then select Variant , Normal, 1033 .

then select Action, Save recource as a binary file, select save it as Variant.

Open this Variant with hex EDITOR like Tiny Hexer, then search for images 551 ---> 2702 , 552 ---> 2802 , 554 ---> 2A02 , 559 ---> 2F02 .

Make sure you are NOT using "Insert Mode" (View/insert mode) as we only want to overwrite the hex code.

now i explain how to do that: press Ctrl and F , AND on the search menu of Tiny Hexer writte 2702 [ this is the hex number for 551.png image of tab items], then you see a part with numbers.

use the number TEN=10(s) as a marker. (after the second 10 is image margins) (after the third 10 is contents margins)

After you do this for all the images i described.[searching for 2702,2802 ,2A02,2F02]

Then save it.

YOU reopen resource hacker select Variant , Normal, 1033 , right clik to 1033 and select Replace resource , then open file with the new resource and save it as :VARIANT/NORMAL/1033.

Then resize image 551 to 20x204 , 552 and 554 to 20x51 and image 559 to 15x34.[width x height]

THATS it.

Thanks to Uk intel for the new method.

[also thanks to psycob because he had show us how to search on code, on past]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

hope in future having a more specific solution.
you can also make your experiments with the values are marked to the images, or with the designing of images, for having better results[but be carefull with the height of distances].

this modification it works, thou i know that pechaps need more work, for been more accurate.

This must be known because i feel responsible for it.

there are many parameters not ''translated'' yet, like :

[Header.HeaderItem]
AccentColorHint =
Bgtype = imagefile
ContentMargins =
FillColorHint =
ImageCount = 12
ImageFile = 551
ImageLayout =
SizingMargins =
SizingType =
Transparent =

[Header]
Bgtype = imagefile
ImageFile =559
SizingMargins =
SizingType =
TRANSPARENT =

[also psycob in his bister theme use as sizing margins (on 551) : 02, 02, 07, 08] and for 559 i suggest : 02, 00, 07, 08 . ]

so, this is just a start, hope with help , could be better one, so to be images appearing more accurate.

enjoy.