Ok, so I haven't found a Panther theme I REALLY like beside KoL's but unfortunantly, KoL didn't put in the right vertical and horizontal scroll bars.
I reshacked his and replaced the two bitmaps w/ the ones from another panther theme that were correct....
Now, when i have a scroll bar -- it's not duplicating the 'panther scroll' effect... instead, streching it.. of course, it looks ok whenever i squash the bar to like.. an 1" in height.
What .BMP did I not replace properly.
thanks.
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you have no excuse not to use TD Panther 4 :banging: 
Ya, have you checked the new td4 theme? I believe it has rippled scrollbars.
I dont get why people are soo stuck on making everything 'perfect'. What diffrence does it make weither or not the theme is perfect, if you like it, use it, if you want to change something, change it. This may or may not be pinpointed at you.
Now for usefull info : Its a problem with the theme itself, its probaly programed to streach instead of tile the image. Its probaly a realy easy fix, download the mstyle eqilvent of skin studio (dont know what its called) and it should be a little check box to make the image tile (at least in skinstudio it is).
i like the new theme... i like KoL type choice a little better and same goes for the start menu.. i don't like KoL's shutdown/logout buttons so i'm changing those too.
i also like kols very thin strips... TD looks sharp... but for some reason, of all the skins i use -- KoL's is my favorite. just needs a lil tweakin for things i like better in others.
as for making things 'perfect'... I'm not trying to make my PC exactly like a mac... I hate object bar.. in fact I hate all of the Stardock products... for some reason, there's always some wierd 'icon refresh' thing whenever i use their product. :\
BUT... I do use a Mac 40-50 hrs a week at hte office (i'm a graphic designer).. .so I look at the interface alllll the time... one of my favorites things about the iface is the scrollbars itself.
AND, to finish -- as a designer i'm anal by nature... inconsistent stuff will be on my mind so i must put this 'issue w/ kols interface' to rest so i quit worrying about it. iTunes has the scroll bars and so does my Trillian iChat skin -- both of which sit exposed on my desktop next to aqua blue ones almost all the time. :\
THATS why is must be perfect. And thnx for the info... themexp has a skinner but I think I need the source files of the msstyle. 
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more than likely, the way kol has the scrollbars set up to display are not the same as in the theme you ripped the BMP's from.
there are settings that will need to be changed in the INI files.
to set the correct pixel width and height for tiling.
(sorry)
it's not as easy as just replacing a BMP to fix it..
Originally posted by lostspyderit should be a little check box to make the image tile
*sigh*
Try using TGTSofts ResBuilder. It's the same as Reshacker but allows you to edit the .ini files in notepad as normal .ini files instead of hexfiles.
I don't know what setting you need to change in them, I need help for these files as well, it will be under the scrollbars sections. Copy the information for these sections from the theme you got the images from, it should work then.
if your lucky, the theme your editing will have been created without TGTSoft's stylebuilder. that way, there will be tons of comment lines telling you what stuff does.
other wise, it's more a matter of playing with settings, and getting them to work right (Stylebuilder strips out all the comment lines)
i would also recommend Res-Build. (it's free from TGTSoft, and is just as good, if not better than ResHack)
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