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WindowBlinds 7.19 Beta Released

Island Dog

Join Date 06/2003

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WindowBlinds 7.19 Beta Released

A new WindowBlinds beta has been released bring several new features and compatibility fixes. WindowBlinds is an application that lets you change the entire user interface to one of thousands available. Downloaded more than 16 million times on Download.com alone, WindowBlinds is the safe and easy way to change your Windows desktop experience.

WindowBlinds 7.19 update:

Added advanced glass support including new sections for SkinStudio
Improved compatibility with pre-release Firefox 4 and IE9 builds
Added new IE9 sections
Added support for per-skin custom colors
Optimized skin changing speed on 64-bit Windows

A beta of SkinStudio was also released to support the latest updates for WindowBlinds.

Beta downloads can be found in the Impulse client, and you can find more information about WindowBlinds, including a free trial download at www.windowblinds.net.

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I've had the Precision skin for quite some time.

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danioc

Join Date 07/2001

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Precision skin was pulled out of WB for a while, then where updated with Windows 7 bits and got new (more recent) WB sections to serve as example if any skinner have doubts on the new sections.

More skins with new features coming very soon.

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Quoting danilloOc,

reply 27

Precision skin was pulled out of WB for a while, then where updated with Windows 7 bits and got new (more recent) WB sections to serve as example if any skinner have doubts on the new sections.

More skins with new features coming very soon.

so more of the skins that were included with wb in the past are going to be updated?

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dani!!!!!

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Z71

Join Date 08/2001

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Tried to open Impulse today, got this. Uninstalled and downloaded Impulse and reinstalled. Same thing.
After the install, it opened and downloaded the Impulse update and when it tried to restart, got this again.

Vista Home - 32bit.

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Z71,

Is there anything in your Impulse error log? By default, that would be located here: C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Impulse\Temporary\impulse-errorlog.txt. The most recent entries are at the bottom of the file. Take a look at errors that would have occurred on the day that you got the last error.

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Z71

Join Date 08/2001

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There is a long list, of the same ones, but these are the three that keep repeating.
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-- [9/22/2010 8:45:02 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context:   SkinState Appying Font
Message:
Build #:   1971
Exception:   Font 'Segoe UI' does not support style 'Regular'.
Stack Trace:
   at System.Drawing.Font.CreateNativeFont()
   at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(FontFamily family, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont)
   at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont)
   at System.Drawing.Font..ctor(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style)
   at ft.a(Font A_0, XmlNode A_1)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

-- [9/22/2010 8:45:57 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context:   UpdateApplicationFileList: impulse, impulse_main,PublicProduction
Message:   Server problem or connection issue
Build #:   1971
Exception:   The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
Stack Trace:
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at Stardock.Central.Common.HttpWebRequestHelper.GetResponseStream(WebRequest request, Boolean GZipEnabled)
   at a6.c(UpdateParams A_0)

-------------------------------------------------------

-- [9/22/2010 9:21:12 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context:   Create Main/Login Form
Message:
Build #:   1966
Exception:   Font 'Segoe UI' does not support style 'Regular'.
Stack Trace:
   at System.Drawing.Font.CreateNativeFont()
   at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(FontFamily family, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont)
   at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont)
   at System.Drawing.Font..ctor(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style)
   at b0..ctor()
   at Stardock.Central.Client.SDCMain.Start()
   at Stardock.Central.Client.Program.MainReal(String[] args)

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Z71,

It appears that the Segoe UI font isn't properly or fully installed on your system. The following link has all of the Segoe fonts in it. Please install them and see if that resolves your problem.

http://sd.stardock.com/curtHendzell/fonts.zip

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Z71

Join Date 08/2001

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First, let me thank you for the help. It worked. I was missing the normal and a couple others. Strange.

Second, no disrespect to anyone at Stardock, but why create an application, where it's mandatory to have a specific font installed to work properly?
If it's mandatory, then have them pre-install when it's first installed. If I was a new customer, I wouldn't be to happy. Just something to think about.

Thanks, again!

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Z71,

Thank you for the input. Impulse should definitely be handling a font not being there better than it is. We will be looking in to this.

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PurrBall

Join Date 02/2003

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My tabs in IE9 are gone now

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ok got a problem I am working with a skin called mystic haunting I have seen this in a lot of skins the background behind the arrows in the new beta are black and there is no way to change it I have gone into the settings and there is no fixing it I have inclosed screan shots the first is the beta the other is the non beta (build 273) Remember I am gettin this on a lot of skins beta capture

I am on windows 7 and am using ie 8

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Quoting PurrBall,

reply 36

My tabs in IE9 are gone now

What did you do?

If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?

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Quoting Blindprincess,

reply 37

I can reproduce this and it seems to be with the older XP skins.

Hopefully the next beta update will resolve this.

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PurrBall

Join Date 02/2003

+23

Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 38

Quoting PurrBall, reply 36My tabs in IE9 are gone now

What did you do?

If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?

Happens every time- they never even appear. I've tried other skins to no avail.

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Quoting PurrBall,

reply 40

Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 38

Quoting PurrBall, reply 36My tabs in IE9 are gone now

What did you do?

If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?

Happens every time- they never even appear. I've tried other skins to no avail.

Are you on 32 or 64 bit? If 64 bit is iexplore showing as 32 or 64 bit in taskmgr?

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neil I have also had it happen on some of the window 7 ones too

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Bebi Bulma

Join Date 04/2004

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I'm getting this all of a sudden since the update (the black background, Helios skin. Happened on Havana too).

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Quoting Bebi Bulma,

reply 43

I'm getting this all of a sudden since the update (the black background, Helios skin. Happened on Havana too).

Reduced 55%

Original 1079 x 82

yikes and Havana is a master skin too and also windows 7

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Quoting Blindprincess,

reply 44

Quoting Bebi Bulma,
reply 43
I'm getting this all of a sudden since the update (the black background, Helios skin. Happened on Havana too).

Reduced 55%

Original 1079 x 82

yikes and Havana is a master skin too and also windows 7

The skin probably lacks glass toolbar images which is why the problem is showing up. The next WB update will handle this case.

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Bebi Bulma

Join Date 04/2004

+209

Indeed it did, updated today and it's all better. Ironically enough, with both of these skins I had deleted all the code for the glass backgrounds and stuff (was conflicting with another explorer addon I'm using).

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2of3

Join Date 10/2006

+816

Here's a screeny of the FF text issue I was talking about, Neil.

It seems to be an issue with graphic layers. The toolbar has a base layer with a texture (tiled) and an overlay layer with a gradient (stretched). The top image shows what happens when I have another window open behind the FF window. The bottom shows without a window behind. You can see that the text gets a light shadow around it as the gradient lightens.

Note: if I have a light wallpaper behind the FF window, the text is unreadable as well. Basically whatever is behind the window shows through.

Also important to note that this only happens on maxed window

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Chasbo

Join Date 01/2005

+943

I've had issues with coloring. For example Adamant gets a wierd color in the taskbar, only near the time, even if I tell WB no color. Doesn't happen on all skins. Stealth coloring was also funky. Retained color in start panel and task bar even after telling WB no color. Rebooting, unloading WB did no good.

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Quoting Chasbo,

reply 48

Are you sure you have not applied a texture by mistake?

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Chasbo

Join Date 01/2005

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I don't think textures are the problem. I played around with them with Adamant and Stealth and it didn't fix anything. Frankly I'm perplexed. Adamant and Stealth are the only skins affected. I can't change the color of the taskbar in Stealth at all. Adamant still has a bluish color at the right side of the taskbar. Stealth has a dull green color in the taskbar and won't change color. I've tried using the advanced color settings and the basic color settings in WB config to no avail. Basically those two skins are now unuseable. Every other skin I've tried is ok. WTF could be wrong? I am running IE9 beta. Could that be it?

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