WindowBlinds 7 Beta Update (6.80.060) Released
Monday, September 21, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Today we are happy to announce an update to the WindowBlinds 7 Beta. The WindowBlinds 7 beta is currently available for active subscribers to Object Desktop, and can be downloaded via Stardock’s Impulse.
New in this update:
- XP toolbar & animations settings are back in the UI. They are under Settings now
- On Vista the sidebar skin settings are back in the UI. Also under Settings.
- Explorer backgrounds tab has been added to the UI. This will show on XP, Vista AND Windows 7.
- New Textures tab added to the UI.
- Support for enlarged menus on Vista / 7
- Some additional skin sections added for Vista / 7 including new shadow sections.
- The fixes for the start button clipping on multiple monitor Win7 boxes are in this build.
- The old WB UI has a bigger button for the new UI and says Beta 2 rather than Beta 1.
- You can drag wallpapers to the large preview area and it will copy them into the wallpapers folder off WB skins as it used to in WB6. Note that its the large preview area and NOT the list itself.
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Reply #42 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:14 AM
This might just be a problem I have with skins I make, but it's making my new Steampunk skin look like the very first save I did in XP , before I even skinned the task bar. (the Vista substyle is fine). Here's a screenshot to show what I'm talking about.
The preview looks nothing like this in Windowblinds 6.
Reply #43 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:25 AM
Reply #44 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:29 AM
from me.
I am just so impressed and grateful for this software.
Stardock. You've done it again!
Damn fine skin, Karen!Reply #45 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:35 AM
For those of you who want to make .texture files, you should make a copy of an existing .texture file and open it in notepad. You will then see there are three sections. One for the taskbar, one for the startmenu and one for the frames. The images do not have to be the same for all three.
Edit the file pointing to new images (saved as .TGA in the same folder) and you have a new texture.
For skin authors, you can also put .texture files in your skin folder and they will only show for that skin.
k10w3: You need to delete the .preview7 files from the skin folder. SKS7 will be updated to do this in the future.
Reply #46 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:05 AM
Reply #47 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:48 AM
very nice stardock & I like all the skin updates for win 7. Altitude is a nice new one as well good job guys, Executive is looking hot as well on win 7
Reply #50 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:25 AM
Am I getting senile or is there a new skin in there called Altitude by PixelPirate?
Reply #51 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:08 PM
...Nice skin and cool little please wait/start button/ start menu animation there PixelPirate 
Reply #53 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:54 PM
Reply #54 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:16 PM
Any ideas?
Reply #56 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:30 PM
Quoting neophil78,
reply 40
Under XP there's no possibility with the new UI to save explorer backgrounds and it's not showing as well those who are existing and which can be accessed with the old UI (seems to me something's missing or bugging )I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Try in French and maybe we can translate. Or better, post screenshots with arrows.
Here's the shot of the old UI showing 2 existings Explorer Backgrounds for Omega Blinds and the possibility to create and SAVE other settings ...
Here the shot with the new UI: the 2 existings Explorer Backgrounds for Omega Blinds are not displayed and there's no possibility to create and save new settings ...
Understand what i mean now ?
Reply #58 Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:20 PM
Explorer backgrounds don't work in Win7 64-bit.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.3
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 203 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell 2407WFP (Digital)) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Wblind.dll 2009/09/21 07:48:20
Wblind64.dll 2009/09/21 07:48:52
Wbsrv.dll 2009/08/28 16:20:52
SevenConfig.exe 2009/09/15 10:57:23
Wbload.exe 2009/08/03 09:38:10
Wbhelp.dll 2009/07/29 13:11:07
Tray.dll 2009/08/03 09:38:19
Wbload.dll 2009/07/29 13:08:29
Screen.exe 2009/08/28 16:21:05
Reply #59 Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:41 AM
That file is already in my CS4 formats folder, but when I export as or save as a .tga, transparency is lost.
Reply #60 Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:53 AM
The issue with Windows 7 64 bit and the explorer backgrounds should be fixed for the next build.
RedneckDude: The version of that file supplied with CS4 does not handle TGA well. A tool like paint.net will handle saving a TGA from a PNG, or you could use SkinStudio to save it as a TGA by using the Sub Frame Builder tool. Simply make the frame count 1, pick load existing multipart image. Select the PNG and then save the file as a tga.
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Reply #41 Monday, September 21, 2009 11:34 PM