WindowBlinds 7.19 Beta Released
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
A new WindowBlinds beta has been released bring several new features and compatibility fixes. WindowBlinds is an application that lets you change the entire user interface to one of thousands available. Downloaded more than 16 million times on Download.com alone, WindowBlinds is the safe and easy way to change your Windows desktop experience.
WindowBlinds 7.19 update:
- Added advanced glass support including new sections for SkinStudio
- Improved compatibility with pre-release Firefox 4 and IE9 builds
- Added new IE9 sections
- Added support for per-skin custom colors
- Optimized skin changing speed on 64-bit Windows
A beta of SkinStudio was also released to support the latest updates for WindowBlinds.
Beta downloads can be found in the Impulse client, and you can find more information about WindowBlinds, including a free trial download at www.windowblinds.net.
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Reply #42 Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:40 AM
neil I have also had it happen on some of the window 7 ones too
Reply #43 Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:43 AM
I'm getting this all of a sudden since the update (the black background, Helios skin. Happened on Havana too).
Reply #44 Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:51 AM
Reduced 55%
Original 1079 x 82
yikes and Havana is a master skin too and also windows 7
Reply #45 Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:23 AM
Quoting Bebi Bulma,
reply 43
I'm getting this all of a sudden since the update (the black background, Helios skin. Happened on Havana too).
Reduced 55%
Original 1079 x 82
yikes and Havana is a master skin too and also windows 7
The skin probably lacks glass toolbar images which is why the problem is showing up. The next WB update will handle this case.
Reply #46 Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:46 PM
Indeed it did, updated today and it's all better. 
Ironically enough, with both of these skins I had deleted all the code for the glass backgrounds and stuff (was conflicting with another explorer addon I'm using).
Reply #47 Friday, September 24, 2010 7:17 AM
Here's a screeny of the FF text issue I was talking about, Neil.
It seems to be an issue with graphic layers. The toolbar has a base layer with a texture (tiled) and an overlay layer with a gradient (stretched). The top image shows what happens when I have another window open behind the FF window. The bottom shows without a window behind. You can see that the text gets a light shadow around it as the gradient lightens.
Note: if I have a light wallpaper behind the FF window, the text is unreadable as well. Basically whatever is behind the window shows through.
Also important to note that this only happens on maxed window
Reply #48 Friday, September 24, 2010 8:54 AM
I've had issues with coloring. For example Adamant gets a wierd color in the taskbar, only near the time, even if I tell WB no color. Doesn't happen on all skins. Stealth coloring was also funky. Retained color in start panel and task bar even after telling WB no color. Rebooting, unloading WB did no good.
Reply #49 Friday, September 24, 2010 9:20 AM
Are you sure you have not applied a texture by mistake?
Reply #50 Friday, September 24, 2010 9:34 PM
Reply #51 Friday, September 24, 2010 10:59 PM
Quoting PurrBall, reply 40
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 38
Quoting PurrBall, reply 36My tabs in IE9 are gone now
What did you do?
If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?
Happens every time- they never even appear. I've tried other skins to no avail.
Are you on 32 or 64 bit? If 64 bit is iexplore showing as 32 or 64 bit in taskmgr?
64-bit, showing as 64-bit process.
Reply #52 Saturday, September 25, 2010 1:01 AM
Reply #53 Saturday, September 25, 2010 5:37 AM
Reply #54 Saturday, September 25, 2010 5:39 AM
Reply #55 Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:26 AM
any word on my issue, Neil?
Reply #56 Saturday, September 25, 2010 1:57 PM
For some reason, the user icon frame/user icon background isn't skinning with this latest update. It's applying in the older skins that have them, but it's not showing up in SkinStudio as skinned, and the images I'm applying to a new skin I'm creating aren't showing up when I apply them.
Reply #58 Saturday, September 25, 2010 4:10 PM
I'm getting weird scaling issues on my IE9 toolbar buttons. The suggested 100x45 size makes them tiny, and after messing around with canvas sizes to get them the correct size, they look like crap (ignore the blue, haven't done masks yet):
Top is what they should look like. As you can see, they're the same size, but the IE version is showing scaling artifacts.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:14 PM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 38
Quoting PurrBall, reply 36My tabs in IE9 are gone now
What did you do?
If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?
Happens every time- they never even appear. I've tried other skins to no avail.
Are you on 32 or 64 bit? If 64 bit is iexplore showing as 32 or 64 bit in taskmgr?