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 Post subject: Skinning the right-click menu...
PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:54 am 
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Hey there folks, hope you all are enjoying the Easter Break...

I have a question regarding the right-click menu for the dock: is it possible to skin this? I find that the dark background & very small light text is difficult to read, at would love to tinker with this, so it has the same color scheme and font size that I've given the hover-over bubbles - se the attached picture...

Any help would be appreciated.

Happy skinning. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Skinning the right-click menu...
PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:10 am 
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I assume you are running the free version of Nexus, right?

Only Winstep Xtreme suppports full menu customization via the NextSTART component, thus allowing the user to use any of the hundreds of existing Winstep themes for the menus.

With Nexus and Nexus Ultimate you are limited to a hard-coded default theme. You can actually change to a different set of menu themes by playing with the 'Use Windows 10 style...' setting in Preferences -> General -> More Options which will give you a lighter menu, or you can switch between a Dark or a Light User Interface mode in the About tab of Preferences, which also affects the menu. This said, those same options will ALSO affect other things.

If the issue is only a question of size/readability, then go to Preferences -> General -> More Options and simply increase the menu scaling from 100% to something higher.

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 Post subject: Re: Skinning the right-click menu...
PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:09 pm 
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Thank you again for your reply Jorge. I thought I had looked through all the settings, but obviously I had missed a few. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Skinning the right-click menu...
PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:40 am 
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No worries. :)

Winstep applications are very powerful and extremely flexible, so they have a ton of settings. Lately it seems like most user issues are not so much about something the application cannot do (it can) but HOW to make it do that (i.e.; find the proper setting lol).

Not like those settings are poorly organized, just that there are so many of them that some need to be 'buried' in secondary dialogs to help alleviate UI clutter.

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