Not working

Also looking for SDK, but WindowBlinds itself is not properly installed

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I installed WindowBlinds, since I am looking for a SDK for skinning our own applications.

1)Do you still have a SDK to incorporate in a Win32/MFC x86/x64 C++ application?

2)Maybe the Stardock Curtains would work better on my system? But the WindowBlinds application is not working. Although my windows says: Windows 10 Pro, the WindowBlinds application is think I am running Windows 10 Enterprise. See below.

Edgar 't Hart

Windows 10 Enterprise (18362.19h1_release.190318-1202)

WindowBlinds 10.84 (059 - Windows 10 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is not installed correctly on this PC.  If you did not reboot after installing WindowBlinds 10 for the first time, then please reboot and try this again.

 

Window titlebar blur features are enabled on this operating system

 

        Wblind.dll                2019/11/18 14:41:12

        Wblind64.dll              2019/11/18 14:41:51

        Wbsrv.dll                2019/05/04 05:29:46

        WB10Config.exe            2019/11/18 14:41:16

        Wbload.dll                2019/05/08 21:13:37

        Screen10.exe              2019/05/04 05:29:17

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

 

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

For custom application skinning you would use DirectSkin which is like a single application version of WB in OCX form.

I imagine your issue you are having with WB is due to ESET AV which has an irritating ability to block things starting up without telling the user.  This does not impact DirectSkin however.

https://www.stardock.com/corporatesolutions/directskin/

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 3

For custom application skinning you would use DirectSkin which is like a single application version of WB in OCX form.
I imagine your issue you are having with WB is due to ESET AV which has an irritating ability to block things starting up without telling the user.  This does not impact DirectSkin however.
https://www.stardock.com/corporatesolutions/directskin/
End of Neil's quote

Thanks for the tip, I will look into this solution tomorrow. It is 23:00 :-)

But some quick questions:

- The round buttons don't seem to have transparent corners, like all other controls. Is this a bug in the sample? Or just on my PC? Or do all skins have non-round buttons? This is the top skin from the list, I selected Antares.uis

   

- Is there an interface for drawing custom buttons by code?

         We currently have some hooks created for the way we want to show buttons.

          It would be nice when we could you the exact same drawing code:

               - enabled, disabled, highlighted (orange text), focussed (orange glow)

- We currently have a Day and Night mode in our monitoring application, is there an ability to use the windows colors when drawing?

      So one theme, but it takes it colors from the ::GetSysColor values.  Our application used to modify the SysColors to get our application in Night mode, instead of making multiple themes and switching all the applications at once.

- We also support a "Touch mode", in which the font and the dialogs are scaled. Using GDIPlus for rendering a complete button gives a slightly more fancy look, then when stretching bitmaps across the button rectangle