Theme Manager broken since upgrade to WB5
Saturday, December 3, 2005 by dragonmage | Discussion: Theme Manager
Since upgrading to WB5 whenever I try to apply a suite , a bubble pops up saying that "a new skin has been installed". Where the name of the skin would be are just a " and no skin is applied.
Anyone else experience this?
Anyone else experience this?
Pete Morton
Reply #2 Saturday, December 3, 2005 11:14 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, December 3, 2005 11:14 AM
I had this problem with IconPackager. I uninstalled IP, reinstalled WB and everything was fine. Am I right in saying that Theme Manager isn't compatible with WIndowBlinds 5?
scadd
Reply #3 Saturday, December 3, 2005 8:45 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, December 3, 2005 8:45 PM
I had same experience. I uninstalled Theme Manager thru SDC (including all themes, files, whatever), then reinstalled it AFTER WB5 was installed. Everything worked fine after that.
dragonmage
Reply #5 Sunday, December 4, 2005 5:14 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, December 4, 2005 5:14 PM
Ok that didnt work , any other ideas?
Also all my icons in the left pane of SDC are now missing and I cant access the forums through SDC anymore
Also all my icons in the left pane of SDC are now missing and I cant access the forums through SDC anymore
dragonmage
Reply #6 Sunday, December 4, 2005 10:44 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, December 4, 2005 10:44 PM
installed an older version of SDC which fixed the problems I was having with it.
Theme Manager is still not working properly. I have another theme manager issue I'm going to search the forums for. I'll post it in another thread if I don't find it.
Theme Manager is still not working properly. I have another theme manager issue I'm going to search the forums for. I'll post it in another thread if I don't find it.
Der-Rickster00001
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:17 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:17 AM
Has anyone been able to solve this issue I'm had the same problem reinstalled everything and now the theme manager now didn't skin the new window blinds without the notification above.
Neil Banfield
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:03 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:03 PM
If you have OD, try installing the latest beta build of WB from OD and see if that helps.
BrettJorg
Reply #9 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:23 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:23 PM
Where you d/l the latest beta build ...the one from download.com is till showing 11/28/2005
Bichur
Reply #10 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:06 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:06 PM
Beta builds are downloaded through the SDC browser.
BrettJorg
Reply #12 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:14 PM
Reply #12 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:14 PM
Nope...it says there is an update, BUT I click it and it does nothing...I am only running the trial though..
dragonmage
Reply #13 Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:54 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:54 PM
As far as I can tell this issue has not yet been addressed.
WB 5.00[b].009
TM 2.24.040
WB 5.00[b].009
TM 2.24.040
nightbirdsf
Reply #14 Thursday, January 5, 2006 1:05 AM
Reply #14 Thursday, January 5, 2006 1:05 AM
I'm getting the same problem. Some notes on my situation:
I am a recent purchaser of ObjectDesktop, a Christmas gift for myself.
I normally run with a Restricted User account. This may matter, but I'm not sure.
I have installed WB 5, not WB 4.
I get the same bubble message.
Apparently my problem is only with WB visual styles. Cursors and Icons download and install correctly with ThemeMgr.
Theme Manager's download.log has messages like this:
-- [AlienMindII] ----------------------------------------------------
Url: https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=3322&LibID=1
File: C:\DOCUME~1\NIGHTB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\~thememgr\WindowBlinds\
Result: Http error (code: -11, Error creating/opening the target file)
Afterwards, WB 5 shows an "Unknown" skin with no preview.
In C:\Program Files' Stardock and WinCustomize folders, I added Modify permissions for (Restricted) Users. This helped with other problems. And I checked to make sure I had write permissions for the Temp WindowBlinds folder.
I can manually download and install WB visual styles outside of ThemeMgr. I currently have the basic Aquarium theme installed. ThemeMgr cannot download new WB visual styles, but it can use existing styles.
Everything else I tried has worked: individual WB visual styles, icons, cursors, DesktopX (for Aquarium), and bootskins (of course installed with Administrator).
I searched all the documentation I could find for this problem. If somebody wants to tell me "RTFM," please tell me where the "M" is!
This problem isn't a showstopper; I'm not going to ask for my money back. But it IS inconvenient.
Also, WB reports this:
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
You have one monitor in total.
(Sony Notebook LCD (1024x768)) 1 is attached to MOBILITY RADEON 9200
Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
-nightbird
I am a recent purchaser of ObjectDesktop, a Christmas gift for myself.
I normally run with a Restricted User account. This may matter, but I'm not sure.
I have installed WB 5, not WB 4.
I get the same bubble message.
Apparently my problem is only with WB visual styles. Cursors and Icons download and install correctly with ThemeMgr.
Theme Manager's download.log has messages like this:
-- [AlienMindII] ----------------------------------------------------
Url: https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=3322&LibID=1
File: C:\DOCUME~1\NIGHTB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\~thememgr\WindowBlinds\
Result: Http error (code: -11, Error creating/opening the target file)
Afterwards, WB 5 shows an "Unknown" skin with no preview.
In C:\Program Files' Stardock and WinCustomize folders, I added Modify permissions for (Restricted) Users. This helped with other problems. And I checked to make sure I had write permissions for the Temp WindowBlinds folder.
I can manually download and install WB visual styles outside of ThemeMgr. I currently have the basic Aquarium theme installed. ThemeMgr cannot download new WB visual styles, but it can use existing styles.
Everything else I tried has worked: individual WB visual styles, icons, cursors, DesktopX (for Aquarium), and bootskins (of course installed with Administrator).
I searched all the documentation I could find for this problem. If somebody wants to tell me "RTFM," please tell me where the "M" is!
This problem isn't a showstopper; I'm not going to ask for my money back. But it IS inconvenient.Also, WB reports this:
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
You have one monitor in total.
(Sony Notebook LCD (1024x768)) 1 is attached to MOBILITY RADEON 9200
Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
-nightbird
Neil Banfield
Reply #15 Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:29 AM
Reply #15 Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:29 AM
Its a bug in ThemeManager. For some reason it thinks WB5 is WB4 and is using older methods to start WB which are no longer supported.
starkers
Reply #16 Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:54 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:54 AM
Can't think that I've Done anything different, but I recently applied a suite with ThemeManager 2.24.040 and the WB applied without issue. I had problem of not being able to apply WB's via TM before, but now that I'm running WB 5.00[b]009, all appears to be working just fine. 
dragonmage
Reply #17 Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:29 PM
Reply #17 Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:29 PM
Yeah!! It works again. Now back to getting the LS/TM issue looked at.
boss0190
Reply #18 Monday, January 23, 2006 12:38 AM
Reply #18 Monday, January 23, 2006 12:38 AM
Try copying the logons that TM installs to Wincustomize\LogonStudio so that they will be in both folders and TM should find the logons in one of those. Just a guess, but it should work. 
nightbirdsf
Reply #19 Thursday, February 2, 2006 3:45 AM
OK, did that. I'll do testing this weekend.
Another part of this might be that I don't run as Administrator. We'll see.
*shrug*
Reply #19 Thursday, February 2, 2006 3:45 AM
OK, did that. I'll do testing this weekend.
Another part of this might be that I don't run as Administrator. We'll see.
*shrug*
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 3, 2005 11:06 AM
What is the date of wbload.exe in your WindowBlinds directory?
Also what version of Theme Manager do you have installed?