Published on September 21, 2010 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

A new WindowBlinds beta has been released bring several new features and compatibility fixes.  WindowBlinds is an application that lets you change the entire user interface to one of thousands available.  Downloaded more than 16 million times on Download.com alone, WindowBlinds is the safe and easy way to change your Windows desktop experience.

WindowBlinds 7.19 update:

  • Added advanced glass support including new sections for SkinStudio
  • Improved compatibility with pre-release Firefox 4 and IE9 builds
  • Added new IE9 sections
  • Added support for per-skin custom colors
  • Optimized skin changing speed on 64-bit Windows

A beta of SkinStudio was also released to support the latest updates for WindowBlinds. 

Beta downloads can be found in the Impulse client, and you can find more information about WindowBlinds, including a free trial download at www.windowblinds.net.

9-21-2010 1-24-34 PM    Windows 7-2010-09-21-13-49-56


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on Sep 23, 2010

Indeed it did, updated today and it's all better. Ironically enough, with both of these skins I had deleted all the code for the glass backgrounds and stuff (was conflicting with another explorer addon I'm using).

on Sep 24, 2010

Here's a screeny of the FF text issue I was talking about, Neil.

 

It seems to be an issue with graphic layers. The toolbar has a base layer with a texture (tiled) and an overlay layer with a gradient (stretched). The top image shows what happens when I have another window open behind the FF window. The bottom shows without a window behind. You can see that the text gets a light shadow around it as the gradient lightens.

Note: if I have a light wallpaper behind the FF window, the text is unreadable as well. Basically whatever is behind the window shows through.

 

Also important to note that this only happens on maxed window

on Sep 24, 2010

I've had issues with coloring. For example Adamant gets a wierd color in the taskbar, only near the time, even if I tell WB no color. Doesn't happen on all skins. Stealth coloring was also funky. Retained color in start panel and task bar even after telling WB no color. Rebooting, unloading WB did no good.

on Sep 24, 2010

Chasbo
I've had issues with coloring. For example Adamant gets a wierd color in the taskbar, only near the time, even if I tell WB no color. Doesn't happen on all skins. Stealth coloring was also funky. Retained color in start panel and task bar even after telling WB no color. Rebooting, unloading WB did no good.

Are you sure you have not applied a texture by mistake?

on Sep 24, 2010
I don't think textures are the problem. I played around with them with Adamant and Stealth and it didn't fix anything. Frankly I'm perplexed. Adamant and Stealth are the only skins affected. I can't change the color of the taskbar in Stealth at all. Adamant still has a bluish color at the right side of the taskbar. Stealth has a dull green color in the taskbar and won't change color. I've tried using the advanced color settings and the basic color settings in WB config to no avail. Basically those two skins are now unuseable. Every other skin I've tried is ok. WTF could be wrong? I am running IE9 beta. Could that be it?
on Sep 24, 2010

Neil Banfield

Quoting PurrBall, reply 40


Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 38

Quoting PurrBall, reply 36My tabs in IE9 are gone now



What did you do?

If you close all IE instances and restart it do they reappear?


Happens every time- they never even appear. I've tried other skins to no avail.


Are you on 32 or 64 bit?  If 64 bit is iexplore showing as 32 or 64 bit in taskmgr?

64-bit, showing as 64-bit process.

on Sep 25, 2010
Hi, how do i update to 7.19? I checked my impulse but there is no update for windowblinds, still 7.10 stated. Please kindly help.. 7.10 screwed up firefox 4
on Sep 25, 2010
You need to enable show pre releases in Impulse. I think this is at the top right of the Impulse menu.
on Sep 25, 2010
PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.
on Sep 25, 2010

PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.

any word on my issue, Neil?

on Sep 25, 2010

For some reason, the user icon frame/user icon background isn't skinning with this latest update.  It's applying in the older skins that have them, but it's not showing up in SkinStudio as skinned, and the images I'm applying to a new skin I'm creating aren't showing up when I apply them.

on Sep 25, 2010

Neil Banfield
PurrBall : The new beta should fix your problem. It went up Thursday.

It did, you're awesome!

on Sep 25, 2010

I'm getting weird scaling issues on my IE9 toolbar buttons. The suggested 100x45 size makes them tiny, and after messing around with canvas sizes to get them the correct size, they look like crap (ignore the blue, haven't done masks yet):

Top is what they should look like. As you can see, they're the same size, but the IE version is showing scaling artifacts.

on Sep 25, 2010

What are the new sections in SkinStudio?

on Sep 26, 2010

any word on my issue, Neil?

Reply #47

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