Neil Banfield

Reply to Bug in WB 4.19[b].003 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

4.19b on XP is the same as 4.10 apart from an updated WBConfig UI. 4.19a was newer, but there was a bug which corrupted some internal WB structures and caused it to act oddly with some skins. It should have had no impact on any other app or the contents of your HD. Missing skins usually means the new WB was installed in a different directory and so it will only show the skins which come with WB (as they are the only ones in the WB directory) There should be a 4.1

Reply to Star menu in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The problem seems to be a registry key which has been set on your PC somehow. I would guess that you used WB 3.x before WB 4 as the WB4 UI has no way to change this value. Assuming you are happy with regedit : Open regedit and find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\STARDOCK\WindowBlinds\WB5.ini\WBLiteFX There will be a value called NoXPFeatures which is probably set to 1 on your machine. Delete this value and then force WB to reload the skin (or reload W

Reply to Why Object Desktop is such a great deal! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

moshi: Actually Brandon Sneed is not and never has been a WindowBlinds developer. He did develop the app in OD before WindowBlinds (then called WindowFX), but to the best of my knowledge he has never written a line of code for WindowBlinds. When WindowBlinds replaced WindowFX in ObjectDesktop he was assigned the task of making the skin editor.

Reply to WB 4.1 causes my Office XP to crash in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The shareware version of WB 4.1 did have a problem with the office apps. We have updated that now so if you download again it should be fine. If you are using the non shareware version of WB then please e-mail [email protected] so we can look into it.

Reply to Anyone ever use StyleBuilder or StyleXP? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I would not put too much faith in the download counts at themexp.org. Counters tend to be inaccurate.

Reply to WindowBlinds 4.1 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The german startmenu issue is fixed as far as we know. Regarding the person who had the reboot, if they made the window semi transparent and then rolled it up then their PC may reboot due to an OS bug. There is little we can do about this one and Microsoft will need to fix it. This also occured with WB 4.0.

Reply to [HELP] Windowblinds 4 in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

WindowBlinds does not replace uxtheme.dll ever. Your non signed msstyles will not show up in the appearance tab when WB is installed as WB will only show WB themes + the valid msstyle files and WB has worked like this since the first alphas of WB3 (at the time there were only signed msstyles) Holding down ctrl when loading display properties will disable the WB features and allow you to access any unsigned msstyle files you have also installed.

Reply to Deprecated in WB4?Does that mean skins look different(better)in WB3? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Settings marked deprecated will still work with WB4, but there are new sections which offer improvements and will override the older section/attribute if they are included. Its very unusual for us to break compatibility which is why the old sections will still work fine but without the new features. This means you can still use the old WB3 sections if you really want.

Reply to WindowBlinds 3.5A Expiration in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I can assure you it was not intentional and we are working on the fix. While its only 3-4 lines thats causing the issue, we have to test it and build installers & test those out before we can update it. Plus the problem occured over a weekend which also delayed things.

Reply to Window FX is slow in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A radeon 9500/9700 card will run windowfx transitions fine in best mode. You need to ensure you have the catalyst 3.4 drivers from ATI (latest drivers) and in the performance page of WindowFX you may need to press a button to enable hardware support. Then reboot and it should run well

Reply to Whats the deal with WB3? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That usually means the skinner forgot to set trans = 1 when they used perpixel alpha blending or transparency. WB4 is much more understanding of mistakes like that than WB3 is. A correct WB4 skin should work on WB 3.x too (but without the new features obviously)

Reply to XP Start menu - unable to tile the prog /places images? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You need to set TileLeft = 1 for that. Skinstudio does not make those options obvious enough and I think thats something we need to change.

Reply to Request for comments from skin authors in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Skinstudio will accept .PNG files and autoconvert them to TGA files for you so there is no need for WB to support them.

Reply to Request for comments from skin authors in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Changing the logoff/shutdown dialog text may not be easy to achieve. We will look into it, but I know its unlikely to be something simple to change.

Reply to Request for comments from skin authors in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

paxx: more flexible in what way?

Reply to Request for comments from skin authors in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Vertically or horizontally?

Request for comments from skin authors in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Now that WindowBlinds 4.0 for XP has been released and appears to be a nice solid base for us to build on, we would like some feedback from skin authors about what you would like to see added to WB 4. We are aware of a demand for toolwindow skinning in UIS2 and MDI controls in UIS1, but would like to know what other features you would be interested in having in WB. You can also report any bugs in how WB draws things if you wish (not crashes - post them in our newsgroups, just p

Reply to WindowBlinds 4 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What error do you get when opening spreadsheets? And which app do you use for those?

Reply to WB4 and Directory Opus in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Its a problem with directory opus itself. It tries to skin its main window titlebar & so WB4 will stop its skinning of that window. You will notice the config dialogs skin perfectly and they have an additional titlebar button, so its clearly some leftover code in directory opus thats impacting the main window only. WB4 is very good at detecting such issues to prevent compatibility problems (such as skinning apps which self skin)

Reply to WindowBlinds 4 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The version for Windows 9x/2000 will be released around the beginning of summer. We have said this is the case for some time now. The version for XP was completed first as XP has a number of features which 2000 and 9x do not have.

Reply to WindowBlinds 4 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Explorer bitmaps are not in WB 4 right now. They may reappear in WB 4.1.

Reply to WB4 expired, alpha/beta versions require subscription? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Beta builds of most of stardock apps will have a timeout if they are pre x.0 builds. So builds leading up to a major release (WB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0) will expire but beta builds of minor releases (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x)will not. This has been the policy for a very long time. We do this as the builds leading up to a major release may have major bugs and we do not want people to be using older builds and then reporting issues which have been fixed a long time ago. An OD

Reply to WindowBlinds 4 release date set to March 25th in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Frugus: Can you post screenshots of the corrupted buttons in the stardock newsgroups so we can look into it. The crash of ObjectBar may have been unrelated to WB.

Reply to windowsblind appears to be disrupting IE ??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Delicious: Thats an issue thats not been reported to us as far as I know. Are you sure you are not using Webblinds rather than WB? If not, then please post on the newsgroups (news.stardock.com) and provide screenshots of the problem.

Reply to Stardock Central & Component Mgr Question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

JamMeister33: Please report any crashes you had with the alpha as we will not know about your problems if you do not report them to us.