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 #142 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:25 PM
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Ok, done that, put the serial into SDC.. but I can't download WB5, it doesn't offer a download button, or an update button next to WB4.. Just "Run" next to both..
Can anyone shed any light?
Reply #143 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:26 PM
| Ok, done that, put the serial into SDC.. but I can't download WB5, it doesn't offer a download button, or an update button next to WB4.. Just "Run" next to both.. |
Is "Show pre-release versions" on in the View menu? If not, you will not be able to see betas.
Reply #144 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:30 PM
| Is "Show pre-release versions" on in the View menu? If not, you will not be able to see betas. |
That was it
Going to update now ^^ Thanks.
Reply #145 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:37 PM
Very nice cant wait to see some suits come out.
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Reply #155 Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:14 AM
http://img335.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error9lp.jpg
where I must enter for being able to update to windowblinds 5?
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Reply #141 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:18 PM