Saturday bump:

so I did notice a button on the substyle menu that indicated "substyle sychronizing". I kind of wonder if this feature addresses what I mentioned above or if it has to do with something completely different. Would be nice to know what the various buttons, bells and whistles actually do and whether or not they are actually a useable tool to enhance my skinning experience or just some fluff to confuse the average user.

@ Neil is there a way to define the size of  perpixel frames with a value- iam asking this since some applications seem to have a lower value and can therefore be shrunkn to almost the rollup state with a width of 50 like skinstudio itself.
Most skins with a little bit creativity in windowframes will be cut off or the margins settings will be scaled and the whole look will change when the window gets reduced  to that 50x20 size.
So i was thinking maybe just maybee there is a way to build something into sks to define that size by a value? Or maybee WB itself like the per application setting ?
I just want to know if that is possible or not- thanks in advance btw ty for the early update on SKS

have updated,now mine just gos tits up now start panel all over the place,,thats bad,,looks like i wount be doing anymore blinds for now,,

When is the Start Menu not working right for you?

may have something to do with the bottom graphic being split in two (left and right)

Neil, I'm finding more things to mention (both good and not so good) I'll help to keep the thread alive for awhile.

Madcat, make your graphics and size them, the problem shoould go away, oh and delete the right side bottom portion unless you plan to use it.

some other things I seem to be encountering:

Edit vista/7 explorer parts - search field background There are generally two sequences of graphics (normal-pressed-disabled-mouseover) and (normal-mouseover-pressed-disabled). The sequence for this graphic is (normal-mouseover-disabled-selected) which would appear to be incorrect except that it would also appear that there is only one of the views that work anyhow. In other words; you may reduce the graphic count to 1 with no apparent impact.

Mouseover text for start menu (left and right) doesn't seem to want to change from the normal text color. In other words; changing the mouseover text color doesn't change the color.

Painting per pixel frames: "stretch middle section" option doesn't appear to work. Left and right borders seem to need "tile horz middle section" and top and bottom borders need "stretch horz middle section" to work properly.

Changing the mouseover text color only works if you do not use a mouseover image.  Silly I know, and I wish it was otherwise, but it has always been that way as far as I know.

gotta disagree with that Tom, metalworks, graphite blue and gunmetal glass are just three of my blinds that have different colored text for normal and mouseover???

For future reference

I believe Lightstar posted (in the distant past - 2009) that it still worked for XP but that for Vista and W7 you would have to make additional adjustments in SKS. The last version of SKS which used that utility was SKS5.

Here's a link to the utility. I don't believe there are any plans to update it... but I guess you could pm someone in support@stardock.com to ask...

https://www.stardock.com/products/skinstudio/MSImport.zip

Yep, I use the MSImport utility all the time still, just used it a little while ago to import an older XP .msstyles to WB and working on a WB for it now for all three OS's (XP, Vista and 7).  With the exception of a couple of minor issues I pointed out to Neil in 2009, that I doubt like Doc said will be ever be fixed, it works great.  I do not know though if it will import .msstyles that were specifically designed for Windows 7 though, I have only imported XP .msstyles files to date.