At long last, a complete WindowBlinds skinning tutorial

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http://www.windowblinds.net/skinning

Thank you Martin!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Umm . . . that's not complete. About 2/3 of the pages come up as not found or "Coming soon".
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Laurence - They all seem to load now. And it looks mighty nice!
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Gah. This new university cache holds on to pages for *far* too long. :-\
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
very nice! maybe now I can figure out how to do the grip bars and XP stuff....
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How is your skin coming for the contest? First event only in 6 days!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've been trying to build a skin with notepad because I can't get skin studio to work. I'm still trying to figure out how all new these little gizmos work. It's amazing how much of the interface is skinned now.

One question... I can't get the spacer image for the tabs to work on Win2k but it works fine on XP. Is that normal?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry to hear that Skin Studio is "gliched," that was THE program I was brave enough to try outside WindowBlinds. Not to sound negative, or gullable, but quite a few individuals from CNet feel none too happy about some of Stardocks software. Will wait and see how SkinStudio "goes" via the newsgroup.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What kinds of problems are you seeing with WB? Works well for me.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm just not patient enough to make skin studio work since I've always used notepad. Obviously it works great for everybody else. I didn't mean to imply skin studio is the problem, I know it's just me.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't think Cnet user reviews are that helpful in general, not just on our software but on all software. Too many people who are totally unfamiliar with the software will blame weird things on software.

Read the IE6 reviews, you'd think it caused cancer.

/me is off to figure out why he has all these weird lumps on his fingers..
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BTW, SkinStudio 1.8 just went up on ODNT. There's no way to make something as complex as skinning the Windows GUI completely straight forward but believe me, if you can learn SkinStudio some, it'll save you a lot of time. And you can edit code right in the SkinStudio code area.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll give it a try - I just finished this skin with all the XP stuff and the gazillions of little pieces... whew Maybe I'll make another one after I recover from this...
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
All I can say is - WOW!!!

That is a tremendous job at explaining all the nuances of skinning - much more than a WB tutorial. It rightly deserves a solid place on the stardock servers.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yep, I agree Einstein... very helpful stuff...