Hi,

I just wanted to give some udpates for Windows 7's Clearscreen Sharp theme.

First of all, I know there are some graphical bugs on x86 (32-bit) version of Windows 7 affecting the Systray and IE8 Search Button -- If you know of any other affected areas that might be hidden from immediate view, please let me know...

I will take care of the x86 bug as soon as possible, but PLEASE give me a few days or even a week -- my ISP, Hughesnet, has a daily download threshold except for 1AM ~ 6AM. It should take a few days to complete if all goes well.

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Later today, I will release an update to address some of the other bugs (NOT the x86 bug mentioned above):

<sup>- Fixed Treeview bug (Seen in CCleaner, Regedit)
- Added a bit more contrast to highlighted text (highlighted text now set to #000000; highlight fill = #CDCDCD) *
- Fixed Shadowless frames (left and right) to match top and bottom frames
- Fixed Start Menu panels from distorting in Large Icons mode
- Fixed Vertical taskbar graphics to stretch proportionately
- Fixed disabled state for SplitButton Dropdown.

* The reason why I don't do a simple highlight to text color inverse is because the highlight color is also shared with the Explorer menu highlight color and that ignores the hot/hover state text color. I tried designing this theme with as little loss to functionality as possible, even things that may not be used so much like Explorer's menubar... with all the sharing going on with colors and images in Aero, some things you just gotta make do with.</sup>

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Etc.

<sub>Also, I am going to work on creating an Aero caption variation for those that are not too fond of the caption buttons (ironically, myself included) but enjoy the base of the theme. I never explained before, but the reason why I went with the current caption/close buttons, is because I didn't want my theme to be overlooked for another Aero mod/recolor, which ran rampant when I started theming last year around this time for Vista.

Vista and Windows 7 is a b*tch to theme... especially the close buttons. Any Aero themer can attest to that. You really have no control over it -- the close caption will always have a hotzone of x amount, the size restrictions, automatic scaling/resizing -- if you've wondered why many themes looked wonky in this area, well now you know why: lack of control.

The only good looking caption buttons that utilizes the glyphs (min, restore/max, close) will closely mimic or actually be the default Aero caption buttons. I tried to move as far as possible from the default Aero caption buttons while retaining the glyphs... well what you see is what you got. There is a reason the hot state button fades (ran out of space to completely enclose the glyph), or why the seperator flickers (for a split second, the transparent Hot button state goes over the transparent normal state, and if you know anything about graphics you will know that a transparent graphic on top of itself will become more solid and thus more visible).

Theme realization is about 80%... there are a lot of workarounds, and some things I will never be able to get to my liking due to the way Aero wires resources together. Oh well. I'm glad most of you like it and can use it on a day to day basis. That was the goal of this theme, to create something somewhat different and to remain usable at the same time.</sub>