Skinning of some menus broken in 5.50.023?

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Certain menus, such as the drop-down Open File menu in SKS, are not skinning properly (both background & item mouseover) with the 5.50.023 refresh release; they were skinning fine in 5.50.021. Ordinary menus & the IE Favorites menu still skin normally.

5.50.023:

The mouseover, which I failed to capture here, is just the normal Windows highlight color.

5.50.021:
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
These menus, too:

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Which OS are you using?

Does this happen with other skins?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
looks like PS menu's look on 64 bit XP.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, Neil.

On XPP SP2 here (32-bit), with all updates.

Here's same menu in Clockwork Orange (very slick, vStyler ):
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can anyone else reproduce this?

Daiwa: What version does WB show as in the System Information screen?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
SysInfo:

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 94 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated 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.

It appears you have enabled limited per pixel mode, so WindowBlinds will support per pixel, but with no hardware support.

(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 340M

Wblind.dll 2007/03/13 10:50:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/03/13 10:57:52
Wbconfig.exe 2007/03/13 10:16:17
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 18:26:49
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Neil, Daiwa; same issue here with SkinStudio menus.



system info

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (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 Diamond S80 128MB DDR Radeon 9200 SE PCI

Wblind.dll 2007/03/13 10:50:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/03/13 10:57:52
Wbconfig.exe 2007/03/13 10:16:17
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 18:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 17:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 22:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 19:26:49
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Neil, just thought I should add, I have removed SkinStudio from Per Application in WB config.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Neil, maybe will help bug hunt, have same issue with Apophysis beta

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks but that is not the same issue.  What you are seeing is a skin issue (incorrectly set menu background colours)

 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ah, thanks Neil, I now see that Daiwa's issue is with the Pull Down Item not applying correctly.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Working ok for me. This is a skin I'm currently working on:-
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
FWIW, I'm using a .tga for the menu background with translucency enabled and a .bmp for the menu item with magic pink transparency for the normal state. This worked fine in 5.50.021 & prior WB5 versions, but not in 5.50.023. I'll try using a .bmp image for the background without translucency & post back.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't find a combination of images that fixes it.

Using .tga's with translucency for both background & item - no work.

Using .bmp's with transparency only for both - no work.

Using mixed .tga background/.bmp item or .bmp background/.tga item - no work.

Sigh.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Bimp.


  
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are we having a rit of fealous jage?
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Unfortunately, neither unloading WFX nor hiding shadows in the skin has any effect.

Good thought, though.

Something in the tweaks made between 5.50.021 & 5.50.023 has affected these menus (at least here). I still have 5.50.021 running on another rig & the menus are fine.
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
Good thing I've made it a habit to check this site before "blindly" trusting the upgrade versions on SDC. I think the ol' Windowblinds 5.5 (not really 5.5) of a month ago helped in the development of that habit...   
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Apparently not everyone is having this problem. Might work fine for you, JRSCCivic98. Easy enough to roll back if it doesn't. In my case, seems to only affect those menus I've shown in SkinStudio itself and they all still "work", just look funny. Menus everywhere else, including IE favorites, continue to skin normally.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I reverted to 5.50.021 and not only do those menus paint correctly again, but MDI buttons and dialog backgrounds paint correctly again, too (mentioned in another thread by I.R. Brainiac). Methinks proof of the law of unintended consequences surfaced in the 5.50.023 update. You know the drill - no good deed goes unpunished.