I'm planning on doing a very modern and advanced theme, using transparencies and a few things that I'm thinking are going to be tricky to do if even possible.

The biggest thing that I was thinking of doing is having a taskbar that is vertically segmented as tabs where each tab would fit one open task

IE.
___________
/ Firefox I
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/ Miranda I
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Etc. The part that I'm really wondering about though, is I wanted to make the tabs hidden/transparent unless they are occupied, and have full opacity only on the active tab, with others being at about %50

Is this a) possible
b) going to be extremely hard for someone with moderate experience in scripting/coding?

I'm used to trial/error/bang-head-off-the-desk/repeat work and I will likely attempt it so long as it's possible, but I'm under the assumption that this is going to take me at least a month just to get this taskbar done.

xtaskbar should do the trick.

Oh, awesome. I didn't realize the module had that potential on its own, thank you.

Ok, I just remembered what else I wanted to check.

Is there a program that allows you to run a virtual session within windows for testing instead of having to change themes reboot to see if it displays correctly?

Reboot?? All you have to do is recycle...

*sigh*

http://lsdocs.shellfront.org
http://wiki.litestep.com

Oh I was reading a basic guide and I thought it said you had to reboot. My bad. Another noob has started his attempt at greatness.:P

Found my mistake, it was between switching shells, not themes.>

I've never bothered rebooting when trying other shells. I just kill the process and start the other one.

That was what I did when editing explorer.exe, but I haven't worked with any other shells yet, so I'm just going by what that beginner's guide said.

The official Docs are down so I'm relying on pages written by people who have used the program before I even bother downloading modules and looking at their readme's.

Official Docs aren't down...just went there to see.

OOh shite...this damn thing is Bustugated. Hopefully the lemmings can fix it soon.
- LiteStep.net Development Team (tuxpow3r)

Is the message I'm getting when I click the docs tab.

those aren't the official docs. I linked you to the official out dated really old docs.

I've read those now. Thanks for the tips. :D

Just need to plan out what modules I'm going to use and memorize the basic evars scripts now.