Theme Manager Window and Treetog's LeatherBox Visual Style
Saturday, October 23, 2004 by kkkwj | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hi, I am a newbie stardock/windowblinds owner and have been trying out various skins (actually, windowblinds visual styles) that come with the default installation. One of the visual styles is called "Leatherbox".
My question concerns the look of the leftmost list box (title = Applications) in the Theme Manager window after the leatherbox style is applied. The background of all the text in the box is shaded dark to match the leatherbox theme, but the surrounding background of the window is still white. So it looks very weird, like the skin is missing an element to color the whole application window dark, like the text background.
In contrast, the middle window of the Theme Manager is a scrollable list box of some kind, and all the backgrounds in that box are colored dark to match the theme. So the middle window looks "right", while the left window looks "like the skin is missing something."
Leatherbox is not the only skin that does this, which suggests that either it's impossible to skin this kind of window properly, or that the Theme Manager application is preventing good skins from doing their work. As things stand, the only skins that look "right" on the Theme manager are skins with white text backgrounds.
Can anyone out there shed some light on what is happening? Thank you.
My question concerns the look of the leftmost list box (title = Applications) in the Theme Manager window after the leatherbox style is applied. The background of all the text in the box is shaded dark to match the leatherbox theme, but the surrounding background of the window is still white. So it looks very weird, like the skin is missing an element to color the whole application window dark, like the text background.
In contrast, the middle window of the Theme Manager is a scrollable list box of some kind, and all the backgrounds in that box are colored dark to match the theme. So the middle window looks "right", while the left window looks "like the skin is missing something."
Leatherbox is not the only skin that does this, which suggests that either it's impossible to skin this kind of window properly, or that the Theme Manager application is preventing good skins from doing their work. As things stand, the only skins that look "right" on the Theme manager are skins with white text backgrounds.
Can anyone out there shed some light on what is happening? Thank you.
kkkwj
Reply #2 Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:19 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:19 PM
Hi Essencay, thanks for the wisdom. You are correct, the theme manager left window background gets repainted properly if I quit theme manger and restart it.
It's very odd that the middle window of the TM gets repainted properly with the new skin, and that pulling down menus over it, or minimizing it and maximizing, or covering it up with another application and uncovering it have no effect.
Since the colors are right when TM is restarted, the skin colors must be in the right place. Somehow the application isn't getting a repaint signal (or is ignoring a signal) for that section of its display.
Oh well, that's a question for the TM application writers...
Thanks again.
It's very odd that the middle window of the TM gets repainted properly with the new skin, and that pulling down menus over it, or minimizing it and maximizing, or covering it up with another application and uncovering it have no effect.
Since the colors are right when TM is restarted, the skin colors must be in the right place. Somehow the application isn't getting a repaint signal (or is ignoring a signal) for that section of its display.
Oh well, that's a question for the TM application writers...
Thanks again.
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Reply #1 Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:12 PM