Window Blinds creates erratic behavior in 3DCanvas

Menus and Tip of Day are blank

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When running 3DCanvas and WindowBlinds 5 with the following system information from WB:

WindowBlinds 5.1 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.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON 9800 XT

Wblind.dll 2006/10/09 09:24:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 10:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/10/09 09:40:18
Wbconfig.exe 2006/10/10 15:39:13
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 16:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 15:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 20:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/13 16:29:23

When running 3DCanvas all of the text is missing from the Tip of the Day and some of the menu items are blank. I have tried using the override features of WB5 to overcome these issues by not skinning and selecting the 'Enable if menus are blank' checkbox in the application with no effective change. The only way I have been able to use this application is to unload WB completely.

Is this a known issue with WB or is there a workaround to this issue.
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Have you tried a different skin?

It sounds like the app has hardcoded the colour of some text which is making those things invisible because of the system wide colours used by the skin.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I tried some other skins and based on what you indicated in your post, that appears to be the issue. Skins that use a white/dark (text/background) color seem to affect the application. Switching to a theme with dark/light t/b color resolved the issue.

Thanks for the assist changing the skin seems to have resolved the issue.

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