osx style to windows 7

[idas]

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sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 32bit http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/sp1-ZEUS-osX-for-Win-7-32bit-207577973

sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 64bit http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/sp1-ZEUS-osX-for-Win-7-64-207697671

APEARANCE AND WORKING WITH THE THEME

My lion mac osx style work is not just a theme. With new code added to Windows system files , Windows becomes behaving like Mac OS X .

When forinstance we select a folder as 'icon', we have separate mouse over image for the folder and other image for the text.

When we select a folder as 'details' we can have stripes, and mouse over images like mac os X , blue hover and white text .

With additional code added to shell32.dll the Preview Pane setted to Top, and Details Pane setted to right (like to osx) .

Also Folderband (is the command bar i which is written 'Organise', 'Open' etc) is included to the preview pane.

That means that if we press to the keyboard Alt+P Preview pane appears --> also Folderband at the top of Preview pane.

Now via Folderband we can select 'Organise' -->' layout' and then select which pane we want to appear (for example we select Details pane) or deselect that we dont want.

if we want to dissappear Preview Pane we press again to the keyboard Alt+P .

Attention: if both Preview Pane and Details Pane are appeared, then we will have this kind of appearance:

Details pane will give the preview of the current file or folder we select with our mouse and also the details text description of it

Preview pane will give the preview of the folder that contains the selected file or folder. [except if the current file is a text or music file or video]

now if we want to have to the Preview pane the preview of the current file or image etc we must first close the Details pane.

Also, if we like to have always shown the Folderband just open the preview pane and set the vertical slider at his minimum position to the top[so no more space to be used].

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For NOT having any problems is best the changing of the system files to do to a new installed windows system, to a system with no application installed.

So, not programs to our system installed, only windows and all the updates [if we use microsoft Update], the we change the system files and then we install any APLICATION we like. this because sometimes if we do the changing to a system that has aplications installed it may some of them not worked, as one of the original system files we change ---> the shell32.dll 'cooperates' with the registry and the programs in a way that a replace of it sometimes[not ever] it MAKES some applications not working. but this does not happen ever.

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recent new uploads :

Meta Rithmisis for win 7 http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/Meta-Rit...win-7-217146404

this work infact is an imageres.dll (in both 32+64 bit) with shorter sound when log in as many users asked for this, and also different style of some basic folders. so:

1. shorter log in sound.(new imageres.dll)

2. different looking of the basic blue folders , different looking of a folder when a folder contain other folders inside. (new imageres.dll)

3. a hybrid in looking visual style (in aero mode lion gray style, in basic mode brushed style looking.)

in preview image how look the folders , 1 simple folder, 2. folder contains other folders, 3. folder contains text files , looking.

so for Meta Rithmisis : THIS WORK its not a stand alone work.

IT HAS BEEN MADE FOR USING together with my ''sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7'', just replacing the imageres.dll of your system and use this from this pack ONLY if you want to have a shorter sound when log in , as also you preffered having the microsoft side style when a folder contains 1 or more folders looking (in blue osx style color).

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Dios Afi - Zeus Touch http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/Dios-Afi...Touch-213522881

Dios Afi = Zeus Touch is based as an inspiration from the Lion mac os X Developer previews and made under my personal view.

This version made for using to sp1 Windows 7 system, with main characteristic the setting of Navigation Pane to the right part of explorer's window. --> not an osx characteristic (since now)

THIS WORK also its not a stand alone work.

IT HAS BEEN MADE FOR USING together with my ''sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7'', just replacing the shell32.dll of your system and use this from this pack for setting Navigation pane to the right part of explorer, Details pane to the left, and preview pane to the midle top.

otherwise add only the themes.

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Special thanks to Panda X http://thepanda-x.deviantart.com/ , moin moin [ http://dm-moinmoin.deviantart.com/ , UK Intel (=Terry j Springham) http://ukintel.deviantart.com/ , Pcycob http://psycob.deviantart.com/ , Patrickgs (Patrick Gharakhanian) http://patrickgs.deviantart.com/ , Raj Theeban http://rajtheeban95.deviantart.com/ , Michael http://michel8170.deviantart.com/ ,Vathanx http://vathanx.deviantart.com/

gratitude to Yoni (Rafael Rodriguez) http://windowsedge.com to Ave (Andreas Verhoeven) http://www.vistastylebuilder.com/forum/ and Rafael Rivera http://www.uxstyle.com/

very special thanks to neowin for the hospitality.

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[Shaun N.]

No.

[-KJ]

Great job on the .dll hack/modifications as always, idas :)

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Personally I would say that if someone wanted Mac OS X then they would use OS X. That said, nice work.

[Unix2]

Personally I would say that if someone wanted Mac OS X then they would use OS X. That said, nice work.

I agree, I had bad experiences with transformation packs in Windows. I rather do a hackintosh in my PC than install this in my Windows 7.

[.Neo]

Aqua doesn't translate well to Windows.

[idas]

I agree, I had bad experiences with transformation packs in Windows. I rather do a hackintosh in my PC than install this in my Windows 7.

i wili accept any critic but not without using it.

you can not reject something you dont know.

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MAIN LIMITATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF USING

1. Be sure that in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display the Smaller - 100% categorie is checked . if there is not, check Smaller - 100% and restart.

Also do not change font size (leave it 96 dpi font size).

2. do not change border padings.

3. for close distance between close,min,max buttons Ave's application [still beta] , CloseButtonChanger needed.

4. its better to be used to a new system, that means , not application installed, all microsoft updates (if the user wants them) , install system files, and then any apliccation you want.

the reason for this last is that microsoft has made the system files, and specially shell32.dll to be cooperated with the programs installed and registry, so when we copy paste a new shell32.dll,

is possible some problems appear.

but this does not happened in every machine. but here i writte all possibilities because i want people know what is about. i have tested this work for 2 years.

and if as i said your system is 'virgin' = no application installed before (as after a format) no problem made.

anyway before doing anything do a restore point. then have a try and tell me your oppinion.

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[idas]

Aqua doesn't translate well to Windows.

there are some hardcoded parts, such as the distance of min,max,close button from the corner of the window, ofcourse there some freeware utilities like Ave's application [still beta] , CloseButtonChanger.

also a very important reason of the difficultie of transporting Aqua to windows, is that in windows all the distances are in complete mess. so i had to writte complete new code lines and measure the distances.

also there is no locations in code that enable having stripes.

i have remade all the code of explorerframe.dll (its copyright property) for be enable to do this. there hundred thousands new parameters that added(they dont exist to the microsoft original code) and also change the values and the properties of the originals (after 1 year work).

then there are several windows in which the stripes work in different way (streched because of the system code < --- microsoft had not made the system dimentions for been symetrical).

so i should make them all looking the same with the same distances, at a symmetrical view.

also other kind of parameters, like the text position, the icon position, etc and also other kind of buttons and text like the 'search again' should be at the right position so all those are very difficult to be made.

even if you could make and fix all those you should see that the categories lines like forexample 'Hard drives' or 'devices with removable storage' etc have other kind of height. and aldo the 'Hard drives' has also different with the 'devices with removable storage' : a complete assymetry ----> so you have to fix all thos to be symmetric to each but also with the simple folders section [local disc c etc] so all to be symmetric.

after all i made content : when you right clik to a window, you can set the folders as icons, list, details , content etc

so there are 4 categories of content if you open explorer has a normal height content but other windows like games have by default very bigg height, i made the bigger 2 times bigger so to be as possible symmetrical, content also using the categories lines like forexample 'Hard drives' or 'devices with removable storage' etc have other kind of height. and aldo the 'Hard drives' has also different with the 'devices with removable storage' : a complete assymetry ----> so you have to fix all thos to be symmetric to each but also with the simple folders section [local disc c etc] so all to be symmetric.

after fix that , then when you selected details you will found that the code because you have changed the content section one, is changed and the details windows are no more symmetrical and tben again you should add parameters and change values for finding a condition that everything will work ok

i could writte more and more about it. people see the final result. but not the hundred thousands failed experiments for making this.

someonelse asked me the same because he liked to make bigger distances, as snow leopard and lion have bigger height in each line of details

if it was ease i could made myself. but i should re writte all thew code again.

and its not like i would add some +2 values. some parameters take negative values, and those values are not working as you suppose. a -4 value to some lines in action when you have changed the code become -3 and in other line -5 etc complete madness. these because the windows system has not been designed to be symmetric from microsoft.

so what i have made is:

adding hundreds of new code lines, adding new parameters to the old code lines, and changing the original code lines values, i made to explorer similar (not same but similar as possible) conditions for making the selected folders of explorer to look in finder's way.

that was a work made from February 2009 to February 2010 and my first uploads was to February 2010 --> Macos X for Windows 7 - 32bit http://zeusosx.devia...32bit-154709485 and Macos X for Windows 7 - 64bit http://zeusosx.devia...64bit-154719032

after that from February 2010 up to May 2011 i worked mainly to the part of the code that controls the settings of the panels, so i made preview pane to top, having black background and i also made the details pane to the right side of explorer.

this was not ease. it took me hundreds thousands hours to set the details pane code to shell32.dll to the right side (to windows this happened only to windows 8 BUT BUT to windows 8 the code programmers of microsoft have added to the base library NEW base code that does not exist to windows 7. i writte this for understanding the difficultie.

so when i finsh that i remade somehow my visual styles to look in the style of lion osx developer edition, but under my view so designed to my way, and i uploaded, with new code to sp1 system files, the sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 32bit http://zeusosx.devia...32bit-207577973 and the sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 64 http://zeusosx.devia...-7-64-207697671

after my recent works was Meta Rithmisis for win 7 http://zeusosx.devia...win-7-217146404 infact an imageres.dll system file with different designed the basic folders in microsoft style but blue osx colors, and Dios Afi - Zeus Touch http://zeusosx.devia...Touch-213522881 infact a shell32.dll which set the navigation pane to the right and details pane to the left, which has been made having in mind that right hand users who use touchscreen computers , asked for having propertree (of Navigation Pane) to the right, as it is more comfortable for them, its more near to their right hand the right part of a window, so they can ease and quiq select a shortcut directory from propertree (navigation pane).

so make a restore point, use it , and tell me your opinnion.

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No.

why> no i accept if you say i dont like. no means nothing.

[idas]

Personally I would say that if someone wanted Mac OS X then they would use OS X. That said, nice work.

we use osx style in windows those we do --> like me, because we like osx style looking and how in osx selecting folders etc

ofcourse anyone wants the original osx he has to buy the original os x. but the point here is a huge modification in code that made.

i do not copy os x , i give my version of it for windows, i designed to many sections different than apple designers, not say better say different, so this work is acceptable or not acceptable from the users.you like it or dislike it.

i made osx style themes and modifications of images and code from 2006 to deviant art see my gallery http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72 (and custom ones from 2002)

that means that all my work has been made step by step by me.

because many people steal or use parts or all of some of my works i have copywritte them.

i have written also articles or shared informations with name idas as also zeusosx in many forums on past.

but i am 47 years old and have no much free time and my eyes dont help me as on past.

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so as i say before, first make a restore point, have a try to use it and then tell me your opinion. via system restore you can restore safe your system.

dont be so negative before you work with it.

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Great job on the .dll hack/modifications as always, idas :)

thank you KJ. i think you know well my work.

[.Neo]

No need for such a long response, I'm largely aware of the limitations you have on Windows when trying to port things over. That's why an Aqua theme doesn't really work: It operates on a different set of rules Mac OS X has been coded around.

I have to say I've seen better Aqua themes than this. You seem to use a Mac OS X Lion-like window gradient, but mashed it together with Tiger-styled toolbar buttons and Snow Leopard-styled sidebar icons / window controls instead of going with one Aqua version. It's a bit messy.

This is what the real deal looks like, maybe you can improve your theme based on it.

[Jose_49]

Seeing screenshots of that theme, it makes me think that OSX would look muuuuuuch better with an Aero touched-stylized theme. Great job!

[idas]

No need for such a long response, I'm largely aware of the limitations you have on Windows when trying to port things over. That's why an Aqua theme doesn't really work: It operates on a different set of rules Mac OS X has been coded around.

I have to say I've seen better Aqua themes than this. You seem to use a Mac OS X Lion-like window gradient, but mashed it together with Tiger-styled toolbar buttons and Snow Leopard-styled sidebar icons / window controls instead of going with one Aqua version. It's a bit messy.

This is what the real deal looks like, maybe you can improve your theme based on it.

for your first saying : I'm largely aware of the limitations you have on Windows when trying to port things over. That's why an Aqua theme doesn't really work: It operates on a different set of rules Mac OS X has been coded around.

Why you are aware? the 3 and 4 limitation are for all the 3rd party themes not aqua.

the main liimitation becomes from microsoft NOT because we make aqua theme but because microsoft made the system files to cooperate each other, so its a problem to any modified kind of system file such as a shell32.dll. that has nothing to do with aqua. also the hardcoded code in min max close buttons its also made by microsoft for not been able changing.

then the limitations i have made such:

1. Be sure that in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display the Smaller - 100% categorie is checked . if there is not, check Smaller - 100% and restart. Also do not change font size (leave it 96 dpi font size).

2. do not change border padings.

so you aware about setting the display the Smaller - 100% categorie ? or not to change the border paddings?

believe me there is no fear.

but you have right to this : Aqua operates on a different set of rules Mac OS X has been coded around

i totally agree with you to this.

so in general i agree with you.

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about : I have to say I've seen better Aqua themes than this.

ofcourse i accept your opinnion . ok?

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but when you say : You seem to use a Mac OS X Lion-like window gradient, but mashed it together with Tiger-styled toolbar buttons and Snow Leopard-styled sidebar icons / window controls instead of going with one Aqua version. It's a bit messy

my answer:

i have 2 lion styles to my major works (named leon) sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 32bit http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/sp1-ZEUS-osX-for-Win-7-32bit-207577973 and

sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7 64bit http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/sp1-ZEUS-osX-for-Win-7-64-207697671 having both to aero and basic theme gray gradients.

only to a new one style i made http://zeusosx.deviantart.com/art/Meta-Rithmisis-for-win-7-217146404 is in the way you descrribed , aero mode gray gradient and basic brushed.

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also about the side icons : is anything wrong really with them?

i make my styles under my view, i am not a copier. and also i have also gray forward back ward buttons = another explorerframe.dll to my major works such as the sp1 ZEUS osX for Win 7.

and ofcourse my work neededed improove.

but i am very tired for alll this effort .

i am 47 and those last 2 years i can not see very well, so i had concentrated to the modification and the writting of new code.

but anyway thank you for your advices and the osx image.

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Seeing screenshots of that theme, it makes me think that OSX would look muuuuuuch better with an Aero touched-stylized theme. Great job!

thank you very much and i totally agree with you.

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[-KJ]

idas, how did you make Explorer sort bar vertical height short?

[idas]

idas, how did you make Explorer sort bar vertical height short?

do you mean the folderband ? (the command bar that is written Organise etc)

there many ways for doing this modification, you can set negative values in shellstyle.dll or changing a parameter to shell32.dll.

if you mean the Items View Header bar , when we set our folder to details (name , type ,total size , free space etc), the parameter control this exists to explorerframe.dll and it is a little more difficult for finding than folderband.

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