WindowBlinds Poor Skinning on Macromedia Studio

January 15, 2004 4:07 AM from

I've never been a big WindowBlinds fan. StyleXP used to have the user-friendliness and the system-friendliness on its side, but WindowBlinds had its wide range of visual styles.

But thats not the reason why I started this thread. One of the errors, (out of many >

) is WindowBlinds poorly styles Macromedia Studio MX 2004. This affects Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash -- basically most of the MX 2004 range.

Lets compare and contrast shall we?

What its suppose to look like:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/thebuggerguy/screenshots/wb-dw1.jpg

What it awfully looks like:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/thebuggerguy/screenshots/wb-dw2.jpg

This error is present for all skins I've tried with WindowBlinds. As for the 'Application Override' part, it doesnt help. I have windowblinds 4.2

I hope there may be a way around this problem, as I do wish to have WindowBlinds and not disable themeing completly for the app..

-- Bugger

wincustomize

1,538 views 6 replies

Reply #1 January 15, 2004 4:10 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

my mistake, swap the links around

Reply #2 January 15, 2004 11:35 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

What error? I don't see the problem. You need to be specific.

Reply #3 January 15, 2004 11:59 AM from

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I have the previous version of M-Media to yours. Did the same thing. Simple solution was to shut down wb's whilst using the program. I found it was interfering with the smaller windows inside the program anyways.

There's always gonna be some apps wb's can't skin...

Reply #4 January 15, 2004 11:43 PM from

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I dont think you notice the little windows inside the app. The title bars of each are a dark red (when in fact they are "suppose" to be a gradient)
EVEN though the theme is blue-based.

Reply #5 January 15, 2004 11:49 PM from

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that is probably a system color that each individual windowblind can set. You could just exclude studio mx from being skinned by windowblinds.

Reply #6 January 16, 2004 11:09 AM from

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MX seems to be pulling that color from the button shadow setting.................. not really the fault of WindowBlinds, if an app takes it colors of certain items from odd places.

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