WindowBlinds 4.4 on Object Desktop

Monday, September 13, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 4.4 onto Object Desktop. It's a pretty big step up from WindowBlinds 4.3 as being the most significant performance increase in visual style handling in years.

It also supports shellstyles being at the top of a folder rather than merely on the left side (see screenshot).

SkinStudio 4.4 is now available on Object Desktop as well and enables importing of msstyles that have unusual shell styles.

Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancements that includes WindowBlinds, DesktopX, ObjectBar, IconPackager, and most of the other programs you would need to totally customize the look and feel of Windows.

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culverSE
Reply #1 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:12 PM
How you do turn on the feature of having shellstyles at the top, or is this a theme specific thing?

This is starting to look a little like Longhorn (what on earth does Startdock have up their sleves I can't wait)

Thanks for still producing the greatest pieces of software

xxZeroVirusxx
Reply #2 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:14 PM
All of us over at Aero-Soft thank you. And, of course, each one of us who have Windowblinds has already started using this theme. Thanks!!

Essencay
Reply #3 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:14 PM
Whoa....cool

MikeB314
Reply #4 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:31 PM
du..bu..uh...I don't think I can speak right now. That is VERY cool!

empty man
Reply #5 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:36 PM
What windowblind is that? I need it!

bmetelsky
Reply #6 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:40 PM
I second that - what/where can I find that theme?

Great going with the update!!

voo
Reply #7 Monday, September 13, 2004 6:43 PM
Think its this one http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7631106/

elvee
Reply #8 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:05 PM
That is such a great feature

Woodbridge
Reply #9 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:13 PM
Excellent!!

Any one fancy writing a small guide on the XML/UIFiles

Looks like VelvetWaves will be getting one more update

CaveBear
Reply #10 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:16 PM
Sweet! I'm finding more and more goodies in SkinStudio...

flipdoubt
Reply #11 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:18 PM
I know there aren't that many .NET WindowsForms apps out there, but when is WindowBlinds going to deal with the .NET Button issue? It isn't .NET, but take a look at Acrobat 6 showing the help panel. You will see a similar behavior with UIS2 skins on the "Hide" button shown in the help panel. See it?

Surj
Reply #12 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:23 PM
cheers for stardock, jumped on that feature update fast.

Essencay
Reply #13 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:40 PM
Hiya Folks....Brad or anyone else that has converted this VisualStyle to WB can you post a guickie guide? I've updated WB and SKSPro, got the skin from Voodoo's link, converted it and applied it. The skin hides the XP Shellstyle, but the new style doesn't show up for me. I looked at the skin in SKSPro and it appears that all the parts are there in the new section added. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Woodbridge
Reply #14 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:42 PM
Essencay, same thing happened to me. Reboot!

8-bitBear
Reply #15 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:43 PM
Is there an "offical" port of the visual style in the screenshot? It looks very cool!

Digital3000
Reply #16 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:49 PM
Same here Essencay, not working here i've rebooted and converted it a couple times, nothing na da zippo..

joeKnowledge
Reply #17 Monday, September 13, 2004 7:51 PM
How you do turn on the feature of having shellstyles at the top, or is this a theme specific thing?

That is my question also...

Surj
Reply #18 Monday, September 13, 2004 8:10 PM
its skin specific joeKnowledge

digital, make sure that skinstudio actually updates. I had to update it 3 times for some reason.

Digital3000
Reply #19 Monday, September 13, 2004 8:11 PM
yep I made sure of that.. I checked the version.. still got nothing over here.

Frogboy
Reply #20 Monday, September 13, 2004 8:14 PM

Here's my video where I converted/ran it.


https://www.stardock.com/brad/wb44.wmv


 


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