Skin Authors: Easy shadows under Windows Vista
New feature in 5.51
Thursday, June 28, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Skinners have an excellent opportunity to update their skins to take advantage of Windows Vista with minimal work: Vista shadows.
WindowBlinds 5.51 supports painting the shadows in Windows Vista as part of a UIS2 formatted WindowBlinds skins.
To add support simply open the UIS file and in the [Personality] area add: AllowVistaShadows=1 and from then on, on Windows Vista, your skin will display the Vista shadow underneath it.
Feel free to update your WindowBlinds skin on WinCustomize to support this feature as Vista users will likely appreciate the cool results!
Reply #3 Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:28 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:35 PM
I think there should be an option in the override section of WBConfig to force on/off the shadows for people who have a different preference than the skin author.
Amen! I spent all of an hour trying to figure out how to turn the shadows on, after the release announcement yesterday.
Reply #7 Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:26 PM
Reply #9 Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:03 PM
Reply #10 Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:43 PM
I think there should be an option in the override section of WBConfig to force on/off the shadows for people who have a different preference than the skin author.
That would be nice for XP users too. I personally prefer shadows, it just makes things look nicer. Was always hoping there would be an easy way, like a setting in the config, to instantly add shadows to any skin.
Reply #11 Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:52 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:07 PM
Reply #13 Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:04 PM
It does not apply it to the Start Menu. Only the Windows get the shadow. I think it's mainly for those skins that don't have shadows on the frames. Say you dont wanna bother with shadows when making a frame, just add that little bit in and it uses Vista's shadows from the default theme. I'm using them on Corvette right now and it actually looks quite nice.
Reply #15 Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:33 PM
Reply #16 Friday, June 29, 2007 3:35 AM
I guess its only for non perpixel skins.
Reply #17 Friday, June 29, 2007 4:54 AM
These shadows will work best on square or near square edged skins, because of this there is no option in wbconfig to force it on a skin.
I.R.Brainiac: You could always make a substyle.
Reply #18 Friday, June 29, 2007 8:31 AM
Reply #19 Friday, June 29, 2007 9:00 AM
Good luck. 
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Reply #1 Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:29 PM
I think there should be an option in the override section of WBConfig to force on/off the shadows for people who have a different preference than the skin author.