WindowBlinds 6 Beta Feedback

on Sep 27, 2007

have the same problem, Neophil. This is the first post I've seen that mentions the prob. I upgraded to WB6 and Start Meneu and Taskbar were skinned 'til I rebooted, then both were rendered in Windows Classic only. When I opened WBconfig, the skin did not show a taskbar in the preview! If there was a substyle to the skin, it still had the taskbar visible in the preview pane, and a skinned taskbar and Start Menu...until reboot, then also that substyle had no taskbar in the preview pane. Any skin I chose, same behavior. Diamond ran until I rebooted, then no taskbar skinned and none visible in the preview pane. Only way I fixed it was to delete the theme and reinstall it, then fine 'til next boot! Weird, yes. Hope it gets fixed soon

I have the same problum with new build help

Found the way to get rid off this ...
In fact when ugrading to WB6 (and probably during all skins are moved from C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds all .wb4 files are deleted.
If you still have Skinstudio V5 as .uis editor, when editing any .uis file and saving it, it seems to not create all the .wb4 files needed by WB6 version.

Though the solution if you have those kind of troubles with a skin (at least under XP) is to edit the .uis file no more with Skinstudio V5, but with Skinstudio beta 6 and save it this way, and as a magical fairy coming on your PC, everything's go back the right way ...

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neophil78

on Sep 27, 2007

Damned, i was wrong, it still doesn't work this way ...

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 27, 2007

We have put up a new build including 64 bit Vista support.

If you have any problems with this then please let us know.

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MadDeez

on Sep 27, 2007

neil, i'm running the build for vista 64. the issue i'm dealing with is the taskbar is less transparent 1/2 inch from the left side of the screen than the rest of the screen. this is happening with all blinds. i'm using Optix now but you can see what I mean in this pic >>

and yes, i know this isn't Optix!

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Astyanax

on Sep 27, 2007

Glad to see a x64 beta released. Everything works great except I still have a problem where my system tray icons jump up to a huge size if the top image height for BMP is set to anything higher than "23". I'm wondering if thats fixable? I'm guessing it can be......

Also when opening the Catalyst Control Center (ONLY WHEN USING A CUSTOM SKIN - Ati Crimson and so on) It seems to not open correctly. Just hangs with "Not Responding" in the window titlebar. This happened to me in 32 bit as well (before I upgraded my pc and went x64).

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Z71

on Sep 27, 2007

I'm having a "top taskbar" issue.
The (quicklaunch) icons are going behing the startbutton.
This happens on XP and Vista. Happens with old and new skins.

WWW Link

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PurrBall

on Sep 27, 2007

"Edit in SkinStudio" isn't working for me in Vista Home Premium 32bit, latest build. Hasn't ever worked with any WB build in Vista. I've tried clicking it in all three places. I have both SKS6 and SKS5 installed.

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Inazumako

on Sep 27, 2007

Then lets put them back with this little bit of help and not worry about them being moved

Thanks for the suggestion. I saw the registry "hack" earlier, and tried it out. It worked fine. I just wish I'd seen your message before I updated WB6 today

Anyway, I've gotten everything ironed out with reg keys that I've exported for installations and updates, so I'll see how it all works for a while. Thanks for the info.

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 28, 2007

Z71: if it happens on XP and Vista then it is a skin bug.

I would guess that the skin is using a start button overlay to make the start button bigger than it really is.

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neophil78

on Sep 28, 2007

have the same problem, Neophil. This is the first post I've seen that mentions the prob. I upgraded to WB6 and Start Meneu and Taskbar were skinned 'til I rebooted, then both were rendered in Windows Classic only. When I opened WBconfig, the skin did not show a taskbar in the preview! If there was a substyle to the skin, it still had the taskbar visible in the preview pane, and a skinned taskbar and Start Menu...until reboot, then also that substyle had no taskbar in the preview pane. Any skin I chose, same behavior. Diamond ran until I rebooted, then no taskbar skinned and none visible in the preview pane. Only way I fixed it was to delete the theme and reinstall it, then fine 'til next boot! Weird, yes. Hope it gets fixed soon

I have the same problum with new build help

Found the way to get rid off this ...
In fact when ugrading to WB6 (and probably during all skins are moved from C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds all .wb4 files are deleted.
If you still have Skinstudio V5 as .uis editor, when editing any .uis file and saving it, it seems to not create all the .wb4 files needed by WB6 version.

Though the solution if you have those kind of troubles with a skin (at least under XP) is to edit the .uis file no more with Skinstudio V5, but with Skinstudio beta 6 and save it this way, and as a magical fairy coming on your PC, everything's go back the right way ...

I was wrong to say i was wrong

IT WORKS, i just omit to delete previously the lefted .wb4 made when applying skin through SKS V5 (BTW, it would be interisting to understand why SKS v5 is now obsolete ...

)

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vStyler

on Sep 28, 2007

SKS v5 is now obsolete

who said that?

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neophil78

on Sep 28, 2007

SKS v5 is now obsolete

who said that?

I think it is

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ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Sep 28, 2007

That will be completely on how and what the final program has and is able to do. But at present - no it is needed to do a lot of things not being made available...

I could make a very large list and it does cause problems using SKS5 under Vista if you are not using the right settings. But as I said under the right settings it works correctly and is well needed at this point to do things that SKS6 will not do.

As Neal has said in the beginning they are made to work together. Even though I hear of a bug where it cause's problems with Vista skins and the IE7. Yet to see it and wondering where and if this has something also to do with blurring in Vista? Glass sections... will see soon enough.

SGT

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 28, 2007

It is VERY important that you do not use SKS5 to edit skins on Vista that have startmenu animations. This is because SKS5 will strip those sections when it saves the file.

Also do not run the skin checker function or it may damage newer Vista skins.

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ZubaZ

on Sep 28, 2007

It is VERY important that you do not use SKS5 to edit skins on Vista that have startmenu animations. This is because SKS5 will strip those sections when it saves the file.

Also do not run the skin checker function or it may damage newer Vista skins.

And never feed SKS5 after midnight or get it wet.

Sorry guys . . I felt an need and filled it.