Custom Coloring Broken in WB5?

Anyone else seeing a problem?

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With the last couple of WB5 betas, custom coloring appears to be broken. A few elements with custom coloring masks are getting colorized (Titlebar buttons, Shellstyle headers) but most are not. The skins I'm having trouble with were developed before WB5 was released in beta and were colorizing normally with WB4.60 and (I'm pretty sure) 4.96[b].003, the first WB5 beta I tried. The skins colorize normally with WB4 on my Win2K rigs.

I've posted screenshots in the stardock.windowblinds.binaries newsgroup. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that the skin was done before WB5, but I'm not sure. I can't find a new setting I need to toggle in SKS for custom coloring to work and SKS Previews the skin with the correct colorization applied. The skin just doesn't get properly colorized when applied. Skins uploaded after WB5 was released (DogmaX4 for instance) seem to colorize correctly so I'm puzzled.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Daiwa
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not true. I just messed with it on AlienMorph, had it skinned for about 4 hours today, in green. There is also a new update for WB...4.98[b].002. But I am pretty sure the color editing works.

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, s-l.

The behavior on my rig is the same with the 4.98[b].002 beta - colorization works for some graphic elements with masks but not for most. I've only seen this with the set of skins I have made using SKS, not with any that I've D/L'd from WC, which is what makes me wonder what happened. I've double-checked that the masks are still there, SKS (current beta) shows the colorization correctly in the Preview window, colorization worked properly for these skins using WB4 and as far as I know WB5 still determines that a skin is color-aware by the presence of masks. Very weird.

BTW, does AlienMorph have color masks or were you using the "force colorization" option?

Thanks again,
Daiwa
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They may not have caught SKS up with WB yet. Might suggest not fretting until the final WB is released.

AlienMorph changes only the button background colors. I tried a few others also. 5imple changes the entire theme color. Maybe there is a mask or other setting you are missing? (on the themes you are building)


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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We have reproduced this and resolved it.  WB was not using the masks for most images by mistake.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good news, Neil, and thanks. You've saved the head of hair I was about to pull out trying to divine what I'd done wrong.

Looks like the release version should be spot on. Thanks for a great app and Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheers,
Daiwa
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Sorry - Server timeout glitch = double post.

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is fixed in the RC.

Thanks & Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've found that the ShellStyle Title Bars (Task Pane & Special Pane) color masks are not being applied after all in the Release Version of 11-29. All the other color masks seem to be getting used.

Thanks,
Daiwa