WindowBlinds 7 Beta Update (6.80.060) Released

Published on September 21, 2009 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Today we are happy to announce an update to the WindowBlinds 7 Beta. The WindowBlinds 7 beta is currently available for active subscribers to Object Desktop, and can be downloaded via Stardock’s Impulse.

New in this update:

XP toolbar & animations settings are back in the UI. They are under Settings now
On Vista the sidebar skin settings are back in the UI. Also under Settings.
Explorer backgrounds tab has been added to the UI. This will show on XP, Vista AND Windows 7.
New Textures tab added to the UI.
Support for enlarged menus on Vista / 7
Some additional skin sections added for Vista / 7 including new shadow sections.
The fixes for the start button clipping on multiple monitor Win7 boxes are in this build.
The old WB UI has a bigger button for the new UI and says Beta 2 rather than Beta 1.
You can drag wallpapers to the large preview area and it will copy them into the wallpapers folder off WB skins as it used to in WB6. Note that its the large preview area and NOT the list itself.

Comments (Page 4)

winstar4

on Sep 22, 2009

Many thanks to Stardock for making a great product even greater!

skibadee

on Sep 22, 2009

very nice stardock & I like all the skin updates for win 7. Altitude is a nice new one as well good job guys, Executive is looking hot as well on win 7

k10w3

on Sep 22, 2009

Neil Banfield

reply 45

k10w3: You need to delete the .preview7 files from the skin folder. SKS7 will be updated to do this in the future.

Thanks, Neil. That fixed it!

k10w3

on Sep 22, 2009

double post. sorry.

k10w3

on Sep 22, 2009

Am I getting senile or is there a new skin in there called Altitude by PixelPirate?

zakai1369

on Sep 22, 2009

Am I getting senile or is there a new skin in there called Altitude by PixelPirate?

Oh sweet. I hadn't noticed that but yeah it's there.

...Nice skin and cool little please wait/start button/ start menu animation there PixelPirate

neophil78

on Sep 22, 2009

neophil78

reply 40

Under XP there's no possibility with the new UI to save explorer backgrounds and it's not showing as well those who are existing and which can be accessed with the old UI (seems to me something's missing or bugging )

Bump

ZubaZ

on Sep 22, 2009

neophil78

reply 40

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Try in French and maybe we can translate. Or better, post screenshots with arrows.

WebGizmos

on Sep 22, 2009

Under XP specific settings the animations seem to be working but not the toolbaricons. It keeps reverting to default in the settings.

Any ideas?

neophil78

on Sep 22, 2009

Double post

neophil78

on Sep 22, 2009

Zubaz

reply 53

Quoting neophil78,
reply 40
Under XP there's no possibility with the new UI to save explorer backgrounds and it's not showing as well those who are existing and which can be accessed with the old UI (seems to me something's missing or bugging )I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Try in French and maybe we can translate. Or better, post screenshots with arrows.

Here's the shot of the old UI showing 2 existings Explorer Backgrounds for Omega Blinds and the possibility to create and SAVE other settings ...

Here the shot with the new UI: the 2 existings Explorer Backgrounds for Omega Blinds are not displayed and there's no possibility to create and save new settings ...

Understand what i mean now ?

ZubaZ

on Sep 22, 2009

Ahh . . thank you very much.

boss0190

on Sep 22, 2009

Explorer backgrounds don't work in Win7 64-bit.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.3

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 203 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell 2407WFP (Digital)) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Wblind.dll         2009/09/21 07:48:20
Wblind64.dll         2009/09/21 07:48:52
Wbsrv.dll         2009/08/28 16:20:52
SevenConfig.exe         2009/09/15 10:57:23
Wbload.exe         2009/08/03 09:38:10
Wbhelp.dll         2009/07/29 13:11:07
Tray.dll              2009/08/03 09:38:19
Wbload.dll              2009/07/29 13:08:29
Screen.exe         2009/08/28 16:21:05

RedneckDude

on Sep 23, 2009

vStyler

reply 38

I don't know what program makes .texture files?Photoshop makes .tga files, just gank the Targa.8BI from ur old Photoshop 7 install and throw it in a newer version of PS... in the file formats folder. Unfortunately, selfish though it may sound, the thought of people throwing random textures all over my skins makes me feel ill.

That file is already in my CS4 formats folder, but when I export as or save as a .tga, transparency is lost.

Neil Banfield

on Sep 23, 2009

The issue with Windows 7 64 bit and the explorer backgrounds should be fixed for the next build.

RedneckDude: The version of that file supplied with CS4 does not handle TGA well. A tool like paint.net will handle saving a TGA from a PNG, or you could use SkinStudio to save it as a TGA by using the Sub Frame Builder tool. Simply make the frame count 1, pick load existing multipart image. Select the PNG and then save the file as a tga.

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