[help] Modding A Visual Style

i'm wondering if it's possible to change the appearance of the taskbar.

replacement shells (typically the bar types, e.g. bb4win, sharpe, geoshell, some litestep, etc.) make the taskbar/tray area into a bar that spans a small section of the desktop, as opposed to the taskbar that spans the entire length.

is it possible to achieve that same effect without replacing explorer? i've experimented with adding transparencies to the taskbar bitmaps, but it didn't do anything.

any ideas? thanks.

#104139

so it's not possible?

#104272

not possible

#104290

but how about this?

i want to reshack the msstyles and make the taskbar background image transparent, then create a "taskbar" image in the wallpaper itself. i don't want to just make the taskbar transparent with a program, because it makes everything, buttons, taskbar items, etc. transparent, as opposed to just the taskbar.

is this possible? i tried replacing the image with a magic pink one, but nothing changed.

ok i changed another entry to magic pink and now everything is black. any ideas?

#104495

Is the taskbar bg bmp only?

#104515

what do you mean?

#104519