New SkinStudio 7 Pro beta on Impulse

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 by Neil Banfield | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Just a heads up that there is a much improved SKS7 beta on Impulse for OD Ultimate subscribers.

It adds an updated UI, UIS0 skin creation and lots of new Windows 7 theme parts.

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BoXXi
Reply #1 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:40 PM

Thanks Neil.......

butch123
Reply #2 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:47 PM

Great news Neil, Thanks..

Mirsguy
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:01 PM

Yaaaay!

PurrBall
Reply #4 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:37 PM

Yesss!!!

 

Edit: This build kicks ---!

 

Edit 2: The show Windows flag on the Win7 taskbar option isn't working.

k10w3
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:33 PM

The recolor option in frame builder doesn't work, at least on my machine.  When I tried to use the recolor feature in frame builder everything looked washed out and moving the arrows in any direction did absolutely nothing.  I uninstalled it and will wait until it's out of beta.

Cameochi
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:38 PM

Installed it, love it!  Thanks so much.

Xiandi
Reply #7 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:05 PM

I love the new layout.

I have a few questions.....

What are 'non DWM taskbars'?

What is the 'sync' button for in the painting margins section?

What are the 'Vista/7 Shadows' for in the perpixel frames and the USI2 frames?

 

 

PurrBall
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:18 PM

I have a few questions.....

What are 'non DWM taskbars'?

What is the 'sync' button for in the painting margins section?

What are the 'Vista/7 Shadows' for in the perpixel frames and the USI2 frames?

1) No DWM means Aero isn't on or isn't supported on the system- basically the Vista/7 Basic theme mode

2) Beats me.

3) Lets you separate the shadows from the frame image

Xiandi
Reply #9 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:27 PM

No DWM means Aero isn't on or isn't supported on the system- basically the Vista/7 Basic theme mode
I don't understand that. Could you clarify, or maybe give an example of when this would happen?

Lets you separate the shadows from the frame image
I dont undestand this either. Why you would want to do that? ...and you cant have shadows on UIS2 images since they have to be .bmp, so does this mean we can now with seperate shadows?

PurrBall
Reply #10 Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:05 AM

1) The taskbar can't be translucent without DWM- this is an image for a solid taskbar.

2) I don't think it's for UIS2 frames.  I haven't tried this yet myself, but from my experience making shadows on perpixel frames was a pain in the buttocks to get correct, so this should just make things easier.

PurrBall
Reply #11 Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:45 AM

Opening the Tooltip section makes the sidebar show Textures in this build.  Also, there seems to be two 'no image defined' at the top of the images list.  Also, 'separator' is spelled wrong for menu items.

PurrBall
Reply #12 Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:27 PM

Okay, the Show Windows 7 start button option seems to be inserting ShowWinFlag=1 into the skin rather than ShowWin7Flag=1.  This ought to be fixed!

2of3
Reply #13 Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:38 PM

I haven't tried it out yet, does the startpanel expand actually do any thing in this version? The settings had no effect in the previous version.

2of3
Reply #14 Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:46 PM

The all programs list background color doesn't work (it never worked in the last sks7 beta either) I have to open the skin in sks6 to ba able to change the color.

PurrBall
Reply #15 Thursday, November 26, 2009 7:37 PM

Yeah, the all programs background does nothing, neither does expanding start menu.

Also, the Preview Popup > Preview item SKS says has 3 frames, but it is actually only one.

PurrBall
Reply #16 Friday, November 27, 2009 12:45 AM

Another thing, the skin wallpaper manager displays an error "The parameter is incorrect" many times and then closes if I click in the big box where wallpapers are presumably supposed to go.

ThoriumKnight
Reply #17 Friday, November 27, 2009 9:33 AM

Sounds brilliant! but I'd rather be able to just get skinstudio 7 without having to get an OD sub (even if I had to pay for the upgrade) like with WB7 when it was still in beta.

Neil Banfield
Reply #18 Friday, November 27, 2009 9:41 AM

ThoriumKnight: It will not be much of a wait for SKS7 final.

Everyone else: Thanks for the bug reports.   I will see that they are resolved before release.

The sync button copies the top margin & tile setting to the other edges and is intended as a time saver when you want them to all be the same.

The new shadow sections can be used on Vista / 7 with UIS1/2 or per pixel frames.  Obviously if the users PC isn't Aero capable the shadows themselves will not show.

Sc4rfy
Reply #19 Friday, November 27, 2009 10:23 AM

Ufff....could not connect to servers

Cameochi
Reply #20 Friday, November 27, 2009 1:30 PM

DWM stands for Desktop Window Manager.  It controls transparency - Aero. 

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