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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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PurrBall

Join Date 02/2003

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 41

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?

64-bit, showing as 64-bit process.

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Hi, how do i update to 7.19? I checked my impulse but there is no update for windowblinds, still 7.10 stated. Please kindly help.. 7.10 screwed up firefox 4

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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You need to enable show pre releases in Impulse. I think this is at the top right of the Impulse menu.

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.

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PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.

any word on my issue, Neil?

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For some reason, the user icon frame/user icon background isn't skinning with this latest update. It's applying in the older skins that have them, but it's not showing up in SkinStudio as skinned, and the images I'm applying to a new skin I'm creating aren't showing up when I apply them.

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PurrBall

Join Date 02/2003

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 54

PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.

It did, you're awesome!

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PurrBall

Join Date 02/2003

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I'm getting weird scaling issues on my IE9 toolbar buttons. The suggested 100x45 size makes them tiny, and after messing around with canvas sizes to get them the correct size, they look like crap (ignore the blue, haven't done masks yet):

Top is what they should look like. As you can see, they're the same size, but the IE version is showing scaling artifacts.

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Mirsguy

Join Date 11/2007

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What are the new sections in SkinStudio?

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any word on my issue, Neil?

Reply #47

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

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Since the last update I'm getting black backgrounds in Explorer. It is happening with all skins.

And this

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.1
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.1

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.19 (build 290 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP w2408 Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1700 SE

Wblind.dll     2010/09/23 15:59:20
Wbsrv.dll     2010/08/09 14:03:05
SevenConfig.exe     2010/09/23 15:59:27
Wbload.exe     2010/09/07 17:02:35
Wbhelp.dll     2010/09/07 17:02:34
Tray.dll          2009/10/21 10:13:19
Wbload.dll          2010/04/27 11:10:25
Screen.exe     2010/05/26 11:18:43

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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Quoting ALMonty,

reply 61

Since the last update I'm getting black backgrounds in Explorer. It is happening with all skins.

And this

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.1
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.1

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.19 (build 290 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP w2408 Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1700 SE

Wblind.dll     2010/09/23 15:59:20
Wbsrv.dll     2010/08/09 14:03:05
SevenConfig.exe     2010/09/23 15:59:27
Wbload.exe     2010/09/07 17:02:35
Wbhelp.dll     2010/09/07 17:02:34
Tray.dll          2009/10/21 10:13:19
Wbload.dll          2010/04/27 11:10:25
Screen.exe     2010/05/26 11:18:43

By the last update do you mean this did not happen with the previous 7.19 beta?

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

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Correct. The 7.19 I did not have this problem. I am getting this with the 7.19a update.

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

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I went through all the skins again to see if they were doing the same thing. I got to the Diamond skin and it seemed like it was having a hard time loading it. The screen flickered and WB was not responding. Then it applied the skin. Now they all are working fine. But the 2 Naked skins still have the black in them. As you can see I lost transparency in the backgrond.

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

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I found out what was causing it. If I use "Active Window Opacity" I get the black. Using transparency on any part of the skin doesn't do it (ie startmenu, taskbar, pop up menus).

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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ALMonty: This issue should be resolved in the next beta.

2of3: We are still looking into your issue.

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2of3: We are still looking into your issue.

Thank you, Neil. Changing the blend mode of the font seems to make a difference, but it shouldn't be necessary and it causes all kinds of problems with text margins.

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

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Thanks Neil!!!

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Well I have reverted to WB 7.1 until Neil sorts out my issue.....no biggie

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All programs menu on windows vista with precision skin are hard to see (very whitish background):

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ALMonty

Join Date 01/2002

+242

Quoting Moletai,

reply 70

All programs menu on windows vista with precision skin are hard to see (very whitish background):

Reduced 62%

Original 746 x 703

Same here.

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Quoting 2of3,

reply 69

Well I have reverted to WB 7.1 until Neil sorts out my issue.....no biggie

Strange, I still get the same issues (blurry text) when using WB 7.1 with Babylon Theta skin. Affected programs i. e.: context menu of USB-Safely Remove and menu of Softmaker Office. Sometimes the context menu of foobar has strange zig-zag lines like this (does not happen with all skins):

Any advise on these issues? Thanks...!

Edit: typo

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Those strange zig zags show up from time to time. I have seen it happen now and then even way back on WB5. A reboot seems to clear it up

-shrugs-

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Thankyou!!! I've been waiting for glass support since Vista, i think i'll start working on some skins again.

One other thing I'd really fancy is to be able to use bitmap masks for the blur area in the start menu etc... cause when I try to put nice big shadows on my skins they get blurred to.

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Daiwa

Join Date 07/2001

+351

Applying any texture causes any magic pink in the systray bitmap overlying the taskbar image to display as black. Select 'None' & reload the skin & the image displays correctly.

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.19 (build 94 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to 256MB ATI Radeon X1300PRO

Wblind.dll        2010/11/10 16:21:20
Wbsrv.dll        2010/04/01 14:40:56
SevenConfig.exe        2010/11/10 16:21:27
Wbload.exe        2010/09/07 16:02:35
Wbhelp.dll        2010/09/07 16:02:34
Wbui.dll        2010/04/01 14:40:05
Tray.dll             2010/04/01 14:40:19
Screen.exe        2010/06/07 12:10:43

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