Eheh, you don't turn it on, you just start typing (and press ESC to dismiss, and backspace to delete characters). It's actually very simple to use, as described above.

EDIT: But you can find some settings to either disable this feature or change its color options in Shelf Properties -> Behavior tab -> More Options dialog.

What is happening here?  It does this with Aero LowRes, Brisa and here with K-Tek 4D. All the other's are fine. Even the older one's I've downloaded are OK.

Sorry about that I should read more. As for what I just posted says nothing about that.  

Search works.   And I checked those themes. All them in good shape. Screenie is Ktek-4D

Maybe it's the way I have it set. Icon alignment is centered and the tabs are centered.

Quoting ALMonty, reply 177

What is happening here?  It does this with Aero LowRes, Brisa and here with K-Tek 4D. All the other's are fine. Even the older one's I've downloaded are OK.

That's what can happen when you center the tabs: some themes will look fine with that option, others (like K-TEK 4D lol) not so much.

IIRC, in OD the tabs of a tabbed dock were completely separate from the actual body, but under Winstep that wasn't true, especially not in the earlier themes (now skinners can specify a whole body bitmap and overlap the tabs on it, which completely prevents that issue).

Still, there might be room for some auto-correct magic in this department too, I will have to look into it.

How can I lighten the text on the weather module? Black on dark gray is hard to read.

Tiggz would have eaten you alive for that comment lol

Oh, I see it's because it's colorized. Get some glasses?    

Seriously now, normally you would have to change the theme itself, but you can also open Preferences, go to the Themes tab, click Fonts button, select each line of text related to the Weather module and change its color.

Quoting ALMonty, reply 177

What is happening here?  It does this with Aero LowRes, Brisa and here with K-Tek 4D. All the other's are fine. Even the older one's I've downloaded are OK.

Ok, just fixed this with some auto-correction "magic":

Remember, many themes were made at a time when tabs could not yet be centered in the application, but some themes (those where the body of the Shelf is a separate unit from the tabs, so the body does not appear cropped at the top like in the screenshot above) can - and should - appear with empty sections at the left and right of the tabs (like in the first screenshot above).

EDIT: Just so you understand what I am talking about:

I fixed it by trying to automatically detect the latter type of themes and keeping them 'as is'. The routine errs on the side of caution though, so it doesn't get it right 100% of the time, but at least this means things like those in the first screenshot are now a thing of the past.

Something else: regardless of tab justification, I think the left and right mini-tab symbols should ALWAYS appear the extreme edges of the Shelf (unless in the special case described above of the tabs being independent from the body).

Hope I'm making sense to you guys. If not, you'll see the results for yourselves next beta.

But ya gotta admit its fun to play with.

Yeah it is. The setting screen Is mind boggling because there is so much you can do. Gotta admit I get lost in there sometimes.  

Try this. 

Try pressing the Down Arrow in the bottom right corner of that same themes tab in Preferences.  

Is anyone here interested in different monitor/screen resolution profiles for the position of docks, shelves, etc...?

This would, for instance, control what happens (or where stuff is) when you add or remove monitors.

How do you think I found it. I poke around.

Ok, new beta is out.

This, among other misc.additions and fixes, adds support for:

1. Invoking Grid Stacks from NextSTART.
2. Opening shortcuts to folders as Grid Stacks.
3. Automatic multi-monitor/screen resolution profiles.
4. Proper centering plus left and right justifying of tabs in themes that did not previously support this.
5. Fixed disabling menu and shelf scaling on high DPI systems not working properly.
6. Fixed the minimum width calculation allowing tabs in Drawers and Shelves to be cropped on certain themes.

Believe it or not this I already done. But its from within the shelf, not a short cut.   

Quoting Uvah, reply 192

Believe it or not this I already done. But its from within the shelf, not a short cut.   

Yeah, but that is an actual folder inside the Documents folder. What this relates to is shortcuts (.lnk files) to folders being treated as actual folders in this beta.

I know.   That's why I said not a short cut.

I want to apply an Object Dock skin, but I can't import it to the themes. I tried to add it as a .zip and an xtreme file. I know there are 4 folders in the zip and I tried to import each one. Didn't work. 

Here's the OD theme https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/objectdock/15099/ 

Just tried it here, and after importing the original zip file I have four new entries (all of them functional) in the 'Dock Themes' category of the Themes tab in Preferences: Midnight_Tab1, Midnight_Tile1a, Midnight_Tile2a and Midnight_Zoom1.

I think the issue here is that you are expecting OD themes to be available under the 'Winstep Themes' category. As the name implies, that category will only show native Winstep Themes, which have (should have) skins for all Winstep objects (Shelves, docks, desktop modules, NextSTART menus and taskbar, etc...) and take advantage of all the Winstep skinning options.

3rd party dock themes only have skins for docks, therefore they only appear under the 'Dock Themes' category of the Themes tab in Preferences (or in the Themes tab of a Dock Properties dialog).

If you open Preferences, go to the Themes tab and then change the category from 'Winstep Themes' to 'Dock Themes' you should find the Midnight entries I mentioned above there. Again, 3rd party themes (ObjectDock, RocketDock, RKLauncher, etc...) only apply to docks.

This short 'How to install themes' tutorial will explain things further, especially the 'Applying 3rd party dock themes on Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme' section at the bottom.

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Ok I got it now. I know about the drop down box it wasn't showing up before. I restarted Nexus and they showed up. After messing with it last night I now have 3 entries of each. I only see them for the docks, this doesn't work for the shelf? 

No. The Winstep Shelf is currently not compatible with OD tabbed dock skins. Most likely something I will work on eventually.

I downloaded an older theme and I add the Midnight graphics to it and came up with this.