WindowBlinds 5 Beta: Next Tuesday
It's coming..
Monday, September 26, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The first public beta of WindowBlinds 5 is almost here. Stardock released the alpha this week to its internal QA team to put the program through its compatibility testing before sending it out. WindowBlinds 5's most notable new feature is the ability to support "glass" and full alpha blending of the title bar and border (no more jaggy borders). The critical step has been to deliver this functionality without affecting performance for reasonably modern video cards.
In addiion, WindowBlinds 5 no longer has a "wbload.exe" and instead extends the painting of the Windows GUI in a more "native" way. Or put another way, it has "zero foot print" in the same manner that the default bundled Windows themes (msstyles) use.
Users who have Object Desktop will be able to try out the beta next Tuesday (Oct 4). Users of WindowBlinds 4 will be able to upgrade to Object Desktop at a reduced price. Moreover, users who purchased WindowBlinds 4 after September 1 will receive WindowBlinds 5 for free.
WindowBlinds 5 will also be designed to run on Windows Vista natively by the time Windows Vista ships (the beta of WindowBlinds 5 should run on the beta of Windows Vista though the Windows Vista GUI is still in a state of flux obviously).
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Reply #122 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:15 AM
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Reply #124 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 11:03 AM
| Get me some whiskey! |
I'll take a bud light draft
Reply #125 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 11:28 AM
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Reply #128 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 2:20 PM
Oh well, I'm up for a while, hopefully I'll have WB5 before I'm in bed
Reply #133 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:07 PM
on to your ying yang or something.
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Reply #137 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:57 PM
NVIDIA 4xxx and (probably) 5xxx users, there are some problems with the alpha support on those cards which may lead to what looks like overexposure; a related problem is that cliking on the titlebars may not work correctly unless you click on the text. ATI users shoud have no problems.
Reply #140 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:08 PM
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Reply #121 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:00 AM