SkinStudio 6 Beta Feedback
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 by Neil Banfield | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Please post general feedback about SkinStudio 6 here.
You must have WindowBlinds 6 beta installed to use SKS6, but any skins made with it should work with WindowBlinds 5 as well.
This is a beta so you should expect missing sections and bugs. If you find SKS is missing support for a specific section, please let us know!
If you are working on a new skin it would be best to ensure it is backed up before using SKS6. Remember in this beta all changes are saved instantly!
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tosbsas
Reply #62 Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:14 PM
the one which is in his version on the right side - thing it has no real function, can be move with uis frames, but doesn't stick that way
Ruben
Anyone??
Ruben
Reply #62 Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:14 PM
the one which is in his version on the right side - thing it has no real function, can be move with uis frames, but doesn't stick that way
Ruben
Anyone??
Ruben
LightStar
Reply #63 Friday, August 17, 2007 9:19 AM
Reply #63 Friday, August 17, 2007 9:19 AM
One other thing, why does it seem impossible to change the Active and Inactive titlebar text colors in SKS 6, and in SKS 5 for that matter? I set them in the Edit Colors area, but they refuse to change.
starone
Reply #64 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:54 AM
Reply #64 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:54 AM
Ok, I see on Shelby GT's preview that the logoff, shutdown buttons have changed. I can't get mine to show. Nor do the arrow buttons show (I have them at 27 x 27 with 2 images). Any ideas? My fingers are exhausted. Thanks.
Zaknick
Reply #65 Saturday, August 25, 2007 12:19 PM
Reply #65 Saturday, August 25, 2007 12:19 PM
If I am not mistaken, did not SK5 have a XP theme you could edit? Will SK6 have a Vista theme (actual basic looking Vista) you can edit?
I would like to change the Vista look a little bit, because I searched for hours looking for a theme for my Vista operating computer, but I can not find anything I like. When I click to create 'New Skin', it gives you the Diamond skin to edit.
I would like to change the Vista look a little bit, because I searched for hours looking for a theme for my Vista operating computer, but I can not find anything I like. When I click to create 'New Skin', it gives you the Diamond skin to edit.
Alan Lindsay
Reply #66 Saturday, September 8, 2007 6:29 PM
Reply #66 Saturday, September 8, 2007 6:29 PM
When I import a png file the transparency does not carry over. How can I get the transparency to carry over? This is the basic taskbar background.
2of3
Reply #67 Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:10 PM
Reply #67 Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:10 PM
Am I missing something? It doesn't seem to have the option of multiplying images from a single on import.
Does this mean I have to create images with all states in mind? for ex. make a start button consisting of 5 images from the start and then import?
Maybe I'm just not doing it right.....
Does this mean I have to create images with all states in mind? for ex. make a start button consisting of 5 images from the start and then import?
Maybe I'm just not doing it right.....
Alan Lindsay
Reply #68 Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:52 PM
Reply #68 Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:52 PM
Nevermind, changing the location of the pngs fixed the problem.
Daiwa
Reply #69 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:35 PM
Could you elaborate a bit more on this, Alan? Moving them from where to where resolved the issue? Not sure why file location would make any difference to the conversion is why I'm asking.
Reply #69 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:35 PM
Nevermind, changing the location of the pngs fixed the problem.
Could you elaborate a bit more on this, Alan? Moving them from where to where resolved the issue? Not sure why file location would make any difference to the conversion is why I'm asking.
Alan Lindsay
Reply #70 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:24 PM
Reply #70 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:24 PM
Yeah very weird. I had to move the pngs to a directory outside the skin folder to get them to work properly. I have no idea why this made a difference. But after moving my pngs to a totally separate location on my hard drive they would import correctly with transparency and alpha blending.
Daiwa
Reply #71 Friday, September 14, 2007 1:36 PM
Reply #71 Friday, September 14, 2007 1:36 PM
Thanks for the feedback, Alan. I expect Neil will look into this.
bluetic
Reply #72 Friday, September 14, 2007 9:30 PM
Reply #72 Friday, September 14, 2007 9:30 PM
How long will it be before it's released to the public? 
Z71
Reply #73 Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:44 AM
Reply #73 Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:44 AM
Not sure if this has been brung up.
I noticed today, that whenever I want to put in a "Negative" number for any section, I get an error saying, "Please enter an interger".
If I need my margins to be ( -153 ), I don't really want to hit the button 153 times. I just want to type in -153.
Also, there needs to be an easier way to pull up skins. I have 2 choses,
1. I can click on "Open Skin" choose which skin I want, then choose which version of the WB I want.
2. I can click "File - open current windowblinds skin" then still have to choose which version I need to work on.
Both are time consuming because you have to do it every time you open Skin Studio.
Sure you have the "Recent skins" but you still have to choose which version to open, if you have more than one version in the folder. It's ok if you only have "one" version.
In the old version of Skin Studio, you could click a button and choose between the last 4 skins you were working on. It didn't matter if they were XP or Vista, it would keep the "Version" of the WB you were working on.
Just something to keep in mind.
I noticed today, that whenever I want to put in a "Negative" number for any section, I get an error saying, "Please enter an interger".
If I need my margins to be ( -153 ), I don't really want to hit the button 153 times. I just want to type in -153.
Also, there needs to be an easier way to pull up skins. I have 2 choses,
1. I can click on "Open Skin" choose which skin I want, then choose which version of the WB I want.
2. I can click "File - open current windowblinds skin" then still have to choose which version I need to work on.
Both are time consuming because you have to do it every time you open Skin Studio.
Sure you have the "Recent skins" but you still have to choose which version to open, if you have more than one version in the folder. It's ok if you only have "one" version.
In the old version of Skin Studio, you could click a button and choose between the last 4 skins you were working on. It didn't matter if they were XP or Vista, it would keep the "Version" of the WB you were working on.
Just something to keep in mind.
huskerpat25
Reply #74 Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:53 PM
Reply #74 Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:53 PM
I can't open skins I imported in version 5 from visual styles. It crashes the program.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #76 Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:57 PM
Reply #76 Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:57 PM
Can someone lock this thread now that it is obselete? Just so information stays in 1 place (SKS beta @ thread) instead of getting all confusticatelous. 
ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #77 Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:07 PM
Reply #77 Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:07 PM
Ok peps I do a lot of editing for Vista and XP too! SOooooo...
I've seen where the latest update for SKS and WB {mostly WB} moved all our skins to a shared folder. Right ?
Well hell that is cool as ever if you have more than one computer as I do. One is my Vista system and the other is my XP system. [ but then I have a server too...] But just today I found myself editing ADNI18's Vista Plus v3 and had my SKS up on both computers. Well my Vista I did reg's to move the WB's to C:\ . But my XP I left it alone... why ? I'm not sure!!
But if your editing and you go edit the image and it is a tga.png or that is a temp png... then it comes up in the temp png folder for the wb you are editing. Wow thats cool especially if you are to use the image with photoshop in another edit for another wb. Really gives you something to go by and makes ever so easy to get the images as you need for a new skin for both XP and Vista. Being that the WB's are shared the images that it places back to the WB is also shared too! Cool!!!
Now the guy that came up with this idea should get a raise. He is a winner as I see it he thinks for even the person that is trying his hardest to get things going to start skinning.
Just a few thoughts from todays work with both WB and SKS... I love it and it works really well. It can only get better and better ... wow!
SGT
Keep up the great work Stardock - it is worth more than the money I paid for all of this and more!
I've seen where the latest update for SKS and WB {mostly WB} moved all our skins to a shared folder. Right ?
Well hell that is cool as ever if you have more than one computer as I do. One is my Vista system and the other is my XP system. [ but then I have a server too...] But just today I found myself editing ADNI18's Vista Plus v3 and had my SKS up on both computers. Well my Vista I did reg's to move the WB's to C:\ . But my XP I left it alone... why ? I'm not sure!!
But if your editing and you go edit the image and it is a tga.png or that is a temp png... then it comes up in the temp png folder for the wb you are editing. Wow thats cool especially if you are to use the image with photoshop in another edit for another wb. Really gives you something to go by and makes ever so easy to get the images as you need for a new skin for both XP and Vista. Being that the WB's are shared the images that it places back to the WB is also shared too! Cool!!!
Now the guy that came up with this idea should get a raise. He is a winner as I see it he thinks for even the person that is trying his hardest to get things going to start skinning.
Just a few thoughts from todays work with both WB and SKS... I love it and it works really well. It can only get better and better ... wow!
SGT
Keep up the great work Stardock - it is worth more than the money I paid for all of this and more!
thomassen
Reply #78 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:09 AM
Reply #78 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:09 AM
It'd be nice to be able to click on the previews to bring up the edit control for that element. Like you could in SKS5.
vStyler
Reply #79 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:24 AM
I was told that wouldn't be being implemented, more's the pity.
Reply #79 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:24 AM
It'd be nice to be able to click on the previews to bring up the edit control for that element. Like you could in SKS5.
I was told that wouldn't be being implemented, more's the pity.
thomassen
Reply #80 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:47 AM
Reply #80 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:47 AM
Awh no! Being able to click the element in the preview was such a nice feature. So easy to find the element you wanted. 
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Reply #61 Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:06 AM
PurrBall: SKS6 is the replacement for SKS5. There will be no additional work on SKS5.