SkinStudio 7.3 Released
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released SkinStudio 7.3 today. SkinStudio is an application that lets you create visual styles, also called skins, for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. These skins are applied using WindowBlinds and can change the entire look and feel of the Windows user interface. This upgrade brings several enhancements to the default skin and content settings.
Update includes:
- Updated included template skin for improved Windows 7 support for new skins
- Updated settings definitions
- Added white button text setting validation for Office high-contrast compatibility
- Fixes for paths not rewriting for colors/fonts on Save as operations
SkinStudio is available as a free download, and a Pro version is available with advanced features like Animation Builder, substyle syncing, and more.
Visit www.skinstudio.net for more information.
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Reply #22 Saturday, November 12, 2011 7:52 PM
Changing the mouseover text color only works if you do not use a mouseover image. Silly I know, and I wish it was otherwise, but it has always been that way as far as I know.
Reply #23 Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:20 PM
Quoting gmc2,
reply 21
Mouseover text for start menu (left and right) doesn't seem to want to change from the normal text color. In other words; changing the mouseover text color doesn't change the color.
Changing the mouseover text color only works if you do not use a mouseover image. Silly I know, and I wish it was otherwise, but it has always been that way as far as I know.
gotta disagree with that Tom, metalworks, graphite blue and gunmetal glass are just three of my blinds that have different colored text for normal and mouseover???
Reply #25 Sunday, November 13, 2011 6:53 AM
I believe Lightstar posted (in the distant past - 2009) that it still worked for XP but that for Vista and W7 you would have to make additional adjustments in SKS. The last version of SKS which used that utility was SKS5.
Here's a link to the utility. I don't believe there are any plans to update it... but I guess you could pm someone in [email protected] to ask...
https://www.stardock.com/products/skinstudio/MSImport.zip
Reply #26 Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:48 AM
Yep, I use the MSImport utility all the time still, just used it a little while ago to import an older XP .msstyles to WB and working on a WB for it now for all three OS's (XP, Vista and 7). With the exception of a couple of minor issues I pointed out to Neil in 2009, that I doubt like Doc said will be ever be fixed, it works great. I do not know though if it will import .msstyles that were specifically designed for Windows 7 though, I have only imported XP .msstyles files to date.
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:30 PM
some other things I seem to be encountering:
Edit vista/7 explorer parts - search field background There are generally two sequences of graphics (normal-pressed-disabled-mouseover) and (normal-mouseover-pressed-disabled). The sequence for this graphic is (normal-mouseover-disabled-selected) which would appear to be incorrect except that it would also appear that there is only one of the views that work anyhow. In other words; you may reduce the graphic count to 1 with no apparent impact.
Mouseover text for start menu (left and right) doesn't seem to want to change from the normal text color. In other words; changing the mouseover text color doesn't change the color.
Painting per pixel frames: "stretch middle section" option doesn't appear to work. Left and right borders seem to need "tile horz middle section" and top and bottom borders need "stretch horz middle section" to work properly.