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carolelaurent
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Application exclusion doesn't work

January 20, 2011 3:36:46 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

Hello,

Sorry for my very bad english, hope you will understand me.

I have a dark skin, really nice, but there is a problem in office word for example because my page ( where I want to write ) is black instead of white. I looked in windoblinds options and found where to exclude applications. I ask to exclude some softwares but there is still a black background in word, windows mail messages, etc ...

Please help, thanks

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carolelaurent
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Reply #1 January 20, 2011 3:58:45 PM
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Go into WindowBlinds Config

Click on Colours tab on bottom

Click on "Change Skin System Colors" button on lower right

In "Select a substyle to edit" dropdown, click on the substyle you want to change

In "Select a colour to edit" section, scroll down to "System Colour:Window" (almost to bottom) and click on it

Click on "Change colour" button on lower left

Select a lighter color from the color picker window

 

Screenshot for a similar example in Reply 1 here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/400010  (shows for "ButtonFace" though, which is NOT what you are wanting to change).

 

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Reply #2 January 23, 2011 7:40:36 AM
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Thank you very much, I'm going to try !

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Reply #3 January 23, 2011 11:15:37 AM
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Having issues with a dark skin. This one is Eclipse and it broke photoshop when I tried to exclude it. See the screenshot.

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Reply #4 January 23, 2011 1:59:00 PM
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Thanks. The solution of DaveRi is perfect

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Reply #5 January 23, 2011 3:06:57 PM
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Yay I finally get to help Uvah  

It's the same type of thing - the way the skins system colors are defined.  I looked at it and several of the parts are defined as the same or very similar colors which is what is making things "disappear".

If you really want to exclude Adobe from skinning, you'll have to go into the system colors as described in Reply 1 and change several of them I think.

I didn't exclude Adobe, just changed a couple of system colors and it works pretty well.  Which colors to change might vary depending on Adobe version.  What I see is "SystemColour: ButtonFace" controls Adobe's Status bar and toolbox backgrounds, "SystemColour: AppWorkspace" controls the overall window color.

That ought to get it.

 

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Reply #6 January 23, 2011 3:15:26 PM
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Thanks DaveRI. I copied reply 1 to notepad and will go from there. I also copied the above just in case.

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