Need help with address field text

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Is there some trick to getting the Edit Explorer/IE Shell Parts-->Edit Vista/7 Explorer parts-->Search Field Background (extra settings) text to take effect in SKS7 for Windows 7?  Right now it's taking the colors from the Normal Toolbar buttons in the Edit Control section.  I have a dark toolbar in that section and my address field is light.  I've changed the text color in the Search Field Background-->Extra Settings, but it's just not functioning, and I think there might be a bug in SKS regarding this, because all the other Extra text parts in this section have a check box to enable the text color and font features.

I sure would appreciate any input on this. 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bump

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

wish I had an answer for you Karen, I looked back at a skin that had the color set to white and it wasn't, so it's not just you.

bump for reference

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, Greg.  It's consoling to know I'm not the only one having the problem. :pout:

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Same problem Karen and have spent the last week on my next skin working on nothing but colors. Would be a wonderful thing if there was more about what the colors all do. Will be waiting for this answer myself and anything else anyone may want to add about changing colors in the color section also.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Dave, I think when it comes to the colors, you just have to keep doing it, in order to figure it out, trial and error, about what works and what doesn't work.  I know it's really hard when you're just learning SKS, because not only are you trying to figure out where which color shows up, you're also trying to figure out what WHAT the parts are and where you can see them, so you could figure out what colors work and which ones don't.

I doubt you'll ever get a comprehensive "this color effects this, this and this" sort of list of what the color sections all affect (even when SKS DOES offer a hint, it's always vague..."this color may effect this, this and some sections of this" sort of answer), it would be REALLY awesome if a section that DIDN'T support something (i.e., text) didn't have a TAB for that something, so you weren't driving yourself up a tree looking for the best choice of skinning that part, when that part wasn't skinnable in the first place. XO

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Must be a stump the experts kind of question. :-"

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Unfortunately there is tons of stuff in SKS7 that just does not work.  :'(

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 7
Unfortunately there is tons of stuff in SKS7 that just does not work.  :'(

Man, isn't THAT the truth!

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I was hoping to hear a response from Tim (2of3), he comes up with a lot of obscure data and is willing to share that info.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting gmc2, reply 9
I was hoping to hear a response from Tim (2of3), he comes up with a lot of obscure data and is willing to share that info.

Yes, he's IS the guy with the "little known" secrets.  Oh well...maybe this time the answer is, this part of SKS doesn't work.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

give it another "bump" just for the heck of it.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting k10w3, reply 10

Quoting gmc2, reply 9I was hoping to hear a response from Tim (2of3), he comes up with a lot of obscure data and is willing to share that info.
Yes, he's IS the guy with the "little known" secrets.  Oh well...maybe this time the answer is, this part of SKS doesn't work.

 

Or you could PM him. :)

 

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It doesn`t work on Win7 (didn`t it work (kinda) in Vista?). The text color for the searchbox is defined by the window text color in the edit colors section.

The address field text does follow the toolbar button text colors.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you, Tim.  Mystery solved.