It looks like your diamond skin has been corrupted.  It is a UIS2 skin, not a UIS1 skin.

Hey WG, are you running the latest version, deleting the wb4 files did not work for me, even after a reboot. Had to edit skin, see above reply.

Thanks Neil, I will delete it for now then and see if it is correct after next version release.

Has anyone from Stardock taken a look at my post? Reply #222

hmm.. skinstudio say, diamond: uis1+ skin..

Yep: decided I will do a uninstall/reinstall, will see what I get when done.

Skinstudio 5 may be confused.

No, this has nothing to do with WB version 4 - the .wb4 files are cache files that WB creates on the fly for certain graphical elements. For reasons too technical for me to understand, they sometimes don't get refreshed properly and can cause some issues with window painting, particularly certain areas using magic pink trans. Deleting the .wb4(cache) files & reloading the skin (forcing WB to recreate them) usually fixes these cache-related display anomalies.

I've got a very minor annoyance under XP and limited per pixel mode, no matter which WB I apply they all have the Acrylic winflag.

Note that under Windows XP, this delete and refresh took care of the titlebar alignment issues, but now the right mouse button menu (anywhere, like the desktop, for example) is black text on black now. The commands light up if you scroll over them, but...

Submenus appear to be painting correctly as do the start menus, if that helps anyone track this down.

My install of WB6 went fine - I am loving the blur effect. I have only noticed two small issues at this point.

1) the per-application feature disabling has been disabled again. My applications that can't handle scroll-bar skinning are noticeably affected.

2) This might have something to do with the Virtual Desktop application - the transparent task-bar shows the background wallpaper from my main window even though I have set the VD to use it's own background as the window's background. Did that make sense? Here's a screen grab to give you an idea:

The left-most image is where you can see the wallpaper (the grassy image) stops just above the task-bar. Then my real background shows through the task-bar.
The right-most image shows what happens when I click to a different Virtual Desktop and then click back. the background of the Quick Launch area goes black. It happened in WB5.5 too, so I'm thinking it is related to VD not WB.

Neil....While looking through the folder for the skin I noticed both of those listed in the skin if thats any help.

I believe all your painting issues are caused by a bug in the transparentblt support in your graphics card drivers.  The drivers for early ATI boards have buggy alphablend support as well.

This would explain why it works perfectly on all our test boxes.

If you alter the hardware acceleration slider in windows (display properties->settings->advanced->troubleshoot) does the problem go away?

okay, I'll give it go after I get home.. thanks

Nope, didn't work.

Switched to VistaPlus and Vista32 and on both had the top part of the start orb still there on top. Switched to Twisted and it went away.

I'm seeing glow after effects on all the skin I've tried that had it, but the others seems to be more of a quick residual, then disappear on their own.



WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6 (6.0 (beta build 19 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(hp pavilion f50) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X

Wblind.dll 2007/08/03 11:51:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/08/02 11:25:18
Wbconfig.exe 2007/08/02 11:25:47
Wbload.exe 2007/07/30 13:14:11
Wbhelp.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:07
Wbui.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:06
Tray.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:49