Skinning Vista issues
Monday, January 5, 2009 by jazzymjr | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I am trying to make my first Vista blind, and have run into some problems right out of the gate:
1. I have issues with making pngs in paint shop pro 8. When I save my images as pngs, the transparency shows up in the preview window during the save, but when I go open the image later, I get an image with a white background. The image opens properly in Photoshop though. And, all of the images I made before getting Vista show up with a white background in Paint Shop Pro, but normally in Photoshop. Did anyone else have this problem? Is it a Vista thing?
2. My Vista Start Panel displays as almost completely transparent...like with maybe 15-20% opacity, despite the actual image being 98% opague! I do not have blur enabled. The only way I could get the panel to show properly was to decrease the transparency via WB Config.
I have uninstalled SKS 6, rebooted, re-installed SKS 6, rebooted again with no change. All my downloads I do via Stardock Central. I did not have any issues in making my CHristmas blind Vista-compatable version. This was before I got Vista.
This is so frustrating. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve these issues? 
Reply #2 Monday, January 5, 2009 8:58 PM
Craig, when the skin transparency was set to default, is when the skin was so dang transparent! I used the slider in the transparency and blur section of WB Config.
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:13 AM
Craig, you already know that I got the issues resolved!
It turned out to be a bad install of Paint Shop Pro. Once I re-installed it, all my issues disappeared! Thank God!
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Reply #1 Monday, January 5, 2009 7:16 PM
MJ, what do you mean by "decrease the transparency via wb config"?
If it is set to anything but skin default then set it to skin default.