WindowBlinds & Acts of God
Slight delay
Monday, July 23, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
As some of you may have heard, there's been massive flooding in the UK. This is affecting two of our developers which is likely to result in a slight delay in the WindowBlinds 6 beta on Object Desktop. The new projected date is next week for both SkinStudio 6 and WindowBlinds 6 betas. The picture on the right was taken by a WindowBlinds developer.
The betas of WindowBlinds 6 and SkinStudio 6 will be available exclusively to users who have Object Desktop.
In the meantime, here's a screenshot of WindowBlinds 6 Alpha running on Windows XP (note the blur effects).
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ZiUL
Reply #22 Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:23 PM
Reply #22 Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:23 PM
I hope everybody is safe and well. Now about the WB6: adios vista! Hello again XP 
I was using vista just for some eyecandy/curiosity but it didn't play well with my notebook even with my bios/drivers vista ready thing.
I was using vista just for some eyecandy/curiosity but it didn't play well with my notebook even with my bios/drivers vista ready thing.
Floodguy
Reply #23 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:49 AM
Reply #23 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:49 AM
We here in Japan too, went through some flood, taifuns and earthquakes lately. Looks like Earth is going to revenge some bad habits we did sometime.
Anyway, hope you all are safe and well.
By the way, does someone know how the skin from Brad's screen shot is called or where it can be downloaded? Or is it not released yet?
Anyway, hope you all are safe and well.
By the way, does someone know how the skin from Brad's screen shot is called or where it can be downloaded? Or is it not released yet?
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #24 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:03 AM
Reply #24 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:03 AM
Even worse, the cricket was cancelled due to a little dampness in the outfield...
No further play is expected today 
Septimus
Reply #25 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:14 AM
There are some real issues with WB5.5x at the moment. Your problem I have come across and for me it was down the to WBVista service not being set to Automatic start for some reason. Go into services.msc as Administrator to turn it on.
My problem with WB (that couldn't be fixed) was when ever using a AA skin, DWM would not start. All settings were correct, no error messages, just the skins became opaque. Going into services and manually starting DWM worked every time. Damn annoying.
Reply #25 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:14 AM
On a sidenote, I cannot get windowblinds 5 enhanced to work in Vista at the moment. The program continually requires a reboot. ...And no, I wasn't running antivirus or a registry guard program during the install. Anyway...nothing beats pure Aero imo.
There are some real issues with WB5.5x at the moment. Your problem I have come across and for me it was down the to WBVista service not being set to Automatic start for some reason. Go into services.msc as Administrator to turn it on.
My problem with WB (that couldn't be fixed) was when ever using a AA skin, DWM would not start. All settings were correct, no error messages, just the skins became opaque. Going into services and manually starting DWM worked every time. Damn annoying.
Lantec
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:49 AM
That's a shame, from what I read ya'll really need the practice.
Seriously though, everybody try to stay safe & dry. I recommend patience too.
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:49 AM
Even worse, the cricket was cancelled due to a little dampness in the outfield...
That's a shame, from what I read ya'll really need the practice.
Seriously though, everybody try to stay safe & dry. I recommend patience too.
LightStar
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:37 AM
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:37 AM
Well, sorry to say, but the first think I would do is turn off the "Blur" and if I could turn off transparency I would do that too. To me, seeing anything behind another window or dialog is extremely distracting. I see from the screen shot that you can indeed turn of the blur, but if a skin was built with transparency, can that be turned off in Windowblinds 6 also?
To all those in the UK, I hope the flooding passes quickly for you and your lives get back to normal soon. I lived in the UK for three years while in the military and absolutely love the country and the people.
To all those in the UK, I hope the flooding passes quickly for you and your lives get back to normal soon. I lived in the UK for three years while in the military and absolutely love the country and the people.
Septimus
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:31 AM
If you are running Vista, just turn off DWM. That shuts down all transparency. I'd imagine v6 of WB will have an actual function to do it though.
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:31 AM
...can that be turned off in Windowblinds 6 also?
If you are running Vista, just turn off DWM. That shuts down all transparency. I'd imagine v6 of WB will have an actual function to do it though.
gate1975mlm
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:08 AM
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:08 AM
Will WindowsBlinds 6 be able to skin the Windows Vista Volume dialog when click on the volume icon in the system tray and the Calender when clicking on the clock in the system tray. WindowsBlinds 5 does not do this.
Neil Banfield
Reply #30 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:35 PM
Reply #30 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:35 PM
Those two parts have to remain white due to hardcoded values in the OS.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #31 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:54 PM
Reply #31 Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:54 PM
I hope that whoever it effects makes it through OK.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:10 PM
Ref WB6...Looks really nice, but...
You know, one would think Stardock would fix the logoff/shutdown buttons and make them line-up correctly, especially if they're displaying their premier product in a screenshot. I'm a detailed oriented person and that glitch in the skin would bug the sh@t out me. I really hope they fix that for both XP and Vista users.
On a sidenote, I cannot get windowblinds 5 enhanced to work in Vista at the moment. The program continually requires a reboot. ...And no, I wasn't running antivirus or a registry guard program during the install. Anyway...nothing beats pure Aero imo.
- Web