Application exclusion doesn't work
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by carolelaurent | Discussion: Wincustomize Tutorials
Hello,
Sorry for my very bad english, hope you will understand me.
I have a dark skin, really nice, but there is a problem in office word for example because my page ( where I want to write ) is black instead of white. I looked in windoblinds options and found where to exclude applications. I ask to exclude some softwares but there is still a black background in word, windows mail messages, etc ...
Please help, thanks
Reply #3 Sunday, January 23, 2011 11:15 AM
Having issues with a dark skin. This one is Eclipse and it broke photoshop when I tried to exclude it. See the screenshot.
Reply #5 Sunday, January 23, 2011 3:06 PM
Yay I finally get to help Uvah 
It's the same type of thing - the way the skins system colors are defined. I looked at it and several of the parts are defined as the same or very similar colors which is what is making things "disappear".
If you really want to exclude Adobe from skinning, you'll have to go into the system colors as described in Reply 1 and change several of them I think.
I didn't exclude Adobe, just changed a couple of system colors and it works pretty well. Which colors to change might vary depending on Adobe version. What I see is "SystemColour: ButtonFace" controls Adobe's Status bar and toolbox backgrounds, "SystemColour: AppWorkspace" controls the overall window color.
That ought to get it.
Reply #6 Sunday, January 23, 2011 3:15 PM
Thanks DaveRI. I copied reply 1 to notepad and will go from there. I also copied the above just in case.
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Reply #1 Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:58 PM
Go into WindowBlinds Config
Click on Colours tab on bottom
Click on "Change Skin System Colors" button on lower right
In "Select a substyle to edit" dropdown, click on the substyle you want to change
In "Select a colour to edit" section, scroll down to "System Colour:Window" (almost to bottom) and click on it
Click on "Change colour" button on lower left
Select a lighter color from the color picker window
Screenshot for a similar example in Reply 1 here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/400010 (shows for "ButtonFace" though, which is NOT what you are wanting to change).