New 2 WindowBlinds 5
Select Data source??? I'm clueless
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 by NURDREAMZ | Discussion: New Users
I downloaded WindowBlinds 5....all of my skins aren't in the theme library. when I try to ADD SKINs...a SELECT DATA SOURCE pops up...I have no idea what I'm doing...will someone plz explain this 2 me..thnx 
NightTrainthedark
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:41 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:41 AM
Try clicking the rebuild skin list button in Windowblinds configuration.
jimkraz
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:21 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:21 AM
When you select Add Skin for WB5 config, you then have to browse to where you have stored your downloaded skins, bye the way, if they are in a Zip file, best to unzip first, select .wba file, open, then check to see in config window, if not click Rebuild List, hope that helps. Jim
scorpio-logic
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:58 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:58 PM
NURDREAMS, is this the shareware version of WB? If not, the latest upgrade (beta) has a fix build in it. The developer is aware of this problem, I am not sure about the shareware version and the upgrade.
NURDREAMZ
Reply #5 Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:52 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:52 AM
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
This is because :
Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.
You have one monitor in total.
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (Microsoft Corporation)
Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 12:01:54
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 11:50:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 15:45:06
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 15:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/26 18:09:46
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
This is because :
Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.
You have one monitor in total.
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (Microsoft Corporation)
Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 12:01:54
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 11:50:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 15:45:06
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 15:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/26 18:09:46
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
aimzzz
Reply #7 Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:06 AM
Reply #7 Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:06 AM
Go to this thread https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=167&AID=90220#704846
There is a recommendation at the end that should help
Also I see that you have the same problem I have-- your graphics card does not support per-pixel alpha blending. Therefore, when you get WB5 all set up, you will not get the clear borders on the Vista-like skins. There are plenty of other good features in WB5-- we just can't get this particular effect...
I don't know anything about your graphics card-- if it's new enough, updating the drivers might be enough to allow per-pixel alpha blending. I'm sure someone who knows will jump in on this possibility.
There is a recommendation at the end that should help
Also I see that you have the same problem I have-- your graphics card does not support per-pixel alpha blending. Therefore, when you get WB5 all set up, you will not get the clear borders on the Vista-like skins. There are plenty of other good features in WB5-- we just can't get this particular effect...
I don't know anything about your graphics card-- if it's new enough, updating the drivers might be enough to allow per-pixel alpha blending. I'm sure someone who knows will jump in on this possibility.
NURDREAMZ
Reply #8 Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:03 PM
Reply #8 Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:03 PM
Thnx...I'll check to see if updating will do the trick..thnx 4 the link 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:22 AM
"...all of my skins aren't in the theme library."
What skins are missing?