Transparent strip along bottom

Friday, February 17, 2006 by pjpkl | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Hi. I have WindowBlind 4.0, and am finding with some of the newer skins that I am getting a transparent strip along the bottom of my page. It shows a strip of my wallpaper underneath, and will show the writing of waiting for a new page to download, then just keeps filling up with writing over that same strip. This is in IE, XP home. Is this because of the upgraded version, and I need to buy it? Thank you pj.
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Daiwa
Reply #1 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:02 PM
Some of the newer skins are not compatible with WB4.x because of the per-pixel alpha transparency features. Some new skins support both WB4 & WB5 by providing both non-per-pixel graphics & per-pixel graphics, though, so it should be a skin-specific problem.

Whether you should purchase the new version depends on whether your video hardware will support per-pixel alpha blending, which is the feature WB5 exploits.

Daiwa
Reply #2 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:28 PM
I should clarify that you don't have to have a rig that supports per-pixel alpha in order for WB5 to work - you just don't get the per-pixel-alpha-based transparency. I have WB5 on such a rig and it works great.

pjpkl
Reply #3 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:33 PM
Thanks for your quick reply. I guess it is just a matter of using the skins that work with 4.0 then until I decide to upgrade. Thanks again.

pjpkl
Reply #4 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:34 PM
Thanks for your quick reply. I guess it is just a matter of using the skins that work with 4.0 then until I decide to upgrade. Thanks again.

pjpkl
Reply #5 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:35 PM
Thanks for your quick reply. I guess it is just a matter of using the skins that work with 4.0 then until I decide to upgrade. Thanks again.

Neil Banfield
Reply #6 Friday, February 17, 2006 12:46 PM

Registered customers of 4.0 should be able to upgrade to 4.6 for free.  Upgrading to 5.0 would be an extra cost ($15 I believe)


pjpkl
Reply #7 Friday, February 17, 2006 1:10 PM
Thank you. I will look into that

pjpkl
Reply #8 Friday, February 17, 2006 7:14 PM
Well, I got the upgrade Neil suggested. Thank you very much, not only was there an update that I didn't know existed, it solved my problem of the transparent bar at the bottom!

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