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Suggestion - Put Groupy task bar along the bottom of the screen in Groupy Stardock Forums

Hi, I just started a free trial of groupy and expected to have an option to put the tab bars along the bottom of the windows. Stardock apps like Fences (long time user) usually have a huge set of options to control such things. I'm posting this to suggest that you offer an option for putting the tab bar along the bottom of the windows. Then it would be conveniently located above the Windows task bar. Another idea is to offer a full-width groupy tab bar just above the Windows t

Can't use Mode 1 and Alt-Arrow hotkeys at the same time in SD Virtual Desktops Stardock Forums

I'm a long-time virtual desktop user, and really depend on them. Jimbo11883 and DrDaveDude have mentioned this same problem on another thread. This thread provides more information. My old computer is a single CPU machine running V2 Build 72, and has the right behavior (Mode 1 enabled, Alt-Arrow hotkeys for switching windows). When I bring up the Advanced dialog, I can see the Mode 1 and Alt-Arrow radio buttons highlighted properly. The dialog software is correctly reading and disp

Reply to Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for this input, but it sounds like your workarounds are solving a different problem. In my case, TM downloads a _suite_, and puts the logon part of the suite in dir wincustomize/logonstudio/themes/ / . But then when the same TM tries to apply the suite, it looks in wincustomize/logonstudio/ , and gives an error. It should be smart enough to look in the same place that

Reply to Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

In the end I copied the files under winc/logonstudio/themes/ to winc/logonstudio/ , thereby bypassing the unwanted "themes" token in the directory pathname. This workaround lets theme manager install the downloaded themes properly, because it can find the files that it needs. (Only guessing here, but if this was my software I'd say that the left hand theme-downloader guy puts the logon files in the wrong place under logon/themes dir, so th

Reply to Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

Agreed, ../wc/logonstudio/ /Theme.ini is where it looks for other logon work that I have downloaded as separate logon skins. But when TM downloads a suite, it appears to put the suite under the wc/themes directory, not wc/logonstudio. So it seems to me that TM puts the files in one place (wc/themes/*), and then looks for them in another place (wc/logonstudio/*), and gives me an error. Weird. I'm at a loss to explain or theorize what's going on. TM

Reply to Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

Very interesting to avoid using the theme mgr for downloading; that's what I was doing. Also I tried downloading and installing using the wincustomize browser (paid edition), with the same results. I received an error just now "Can't find ../program files/wincustomize/logonstudio/LaSTCobalt_logon_/Theme.ini. Looking in my folders, I see that file (along with all others in lastcobalt) under ../wincustomize/themes/Last.. So I wonder why the

Reply to Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

Hi, I can successfully reproduce your results (and could do so before I posted, too). The issue is not whether logonstudio works--it obviously does on my machine. Instead, the issue is that when I am in the Theme manager, and apply/download or apply-from-the-list a theme suite, the theme manager says there was a problem in "downloading or applying" the logonstudio part of the suite---even if the suite is in the list on my machine. Then it continues to

Theme mgr errors on Logonstudio part of skin suites in Theme Manager WinCustomize Forums

Hi, when I try to download theme suites that include a logon skin, the theme manager always comes up and says it had an error "downloading or installing" the logon skin. I really doubt it's the suites (they are by experienced people, and all suites trigger the error). When I reinstall Logonstudio it says "Logonstudio is no more registered as the default logon editor..." and I type Yes, make yourself the default logon editor. I've downloaded and

Reply to Theme Manager Window and Treetog's LeatherBox Visual Style in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi Essencay, thanks for the wisdom. You are correct, the theme manager left window background gets repainted properly if I quit theme manger and restart it. It's very odd that the middle window of the TM gets repainted properly with the new skin, and that pulling down menus over it, or minimizing it and maximizing, or covering it up with another application and uncovering it have no effect. Since the colors are right when TM is restarted, the skin colors must be in the right

Theme Manager Window and Treetog's LeatherBox Visual Style in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi, I am a newbie stardock/windowblinds owner and have been trying out various skins (actually, windowblinds visual styles) that come with the default installation. One of the visual styles is called "Leatherbox". My question concerns the look of the leftmost list box (title = Applications) in the Theme Manager window after the leatherbox style is applied. The background of all the text in the box is shaded dark to match the leatherbox theme, but the surrounding background of the wind

Reply to Typical time it takes to create a skin? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Thanks Kosasati, NightTrain2002, and ChasUGC. I love reading about the voices of experience-it's inspiring. Cheers!

Reply to XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ah.., I am learning as I go. The margin numbers split the images into 3 portions, so they are not the problem. Asymmetry is ok there. The screen edge clips are for how much to clip the borders of maximized windows, so they do not apply to my "marching dialog" issues. But I adjusted the left side clip to make the maximized windows look better, thank you. I found the width of the left border bitmap is 15, and the right side border bitmap is 8, so there is some asymmetry there. T

Reply to XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that next. In the meantime, (not really knowing what I am doing), I ran the Tools / Correct Skin Errors option on the skin, deleted all the leftover hints, deleted attributes that looked like they shouldn't be there, used existing bitmap backgrounds for backgrounds that were missing, randomly used a "rollover" button to replace a missing image for Button4 (which says "system button" beside it), and changed the titlebar height? captionheight? from 23 to 46. <

Reply to XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sorry to say, but the problem has not gone away. More inspection shows that every time Word opens up a styles and formatting dialog, it shifts it down a few pixels (presumably to cascade open windows). So the dialogs march down the screen. All other visual styles for windowblinds stop properly at the bottom of the screen, so I can still click the OK button, but the XP Corona style marches right off the bottom of the screen, until only half the OK button shows. It's like Windows thinks

Reply to Typical time it takes to create a skin? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Thank you for your replies. I'm getting the impression that for people who know what they're doing, the time to make a windowblinds skin is measured in weeks or months, rather than in hours or days. Do the mechanics of making a wb skin get to be really routine after a while, so that you can do the N different moves and bitmaps that you have to make in your sleep? What I'm getting at is the question of whether most of the time is spent in mechanical photoshop and layout operations, or is most of

Typical time it takes to create a skin? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I'm a newbie and even though I've read lots on skinning, I have never seen any information on how many hours/days/weeks it takes (1) an average person to create their first skin, or (2) how long it takes an expert to create an average skin. I'm not talking about all the wonderful works of graphic arts that I see for wallpapers in the wincustomize suites. I'm just thinking of your average skin with a few interesting graphics for buttons and gradients and suchrelatively simple photoshop

Reply to XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Very weird. I have suffered this problem for a loooong time, and have tried to move the dialogs up before clicking OK, thinking that Windows remembered the last location of the dialogs. To no effect, the dialogs would open hanging off the low edge of the screen again. But this time, just after I responded to your previous message, I realized that I was running the VWM virtual windows manager, and not said that in my previous post. So I disabled it, rebooted, tried out another few themes

Reply to XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi Yrgal, I use Office 2003, Windows XP (SP1, I backed out of SP2), and resolution of 1280x800 (a widescreen toshiba satellite laptop). No other themes have the issue except the XP Corona Theme. The dialogs that suffer the worst are the style changing ones that pop up with the Word sequence ctl-f1 (open the task pane), choose Styles and Formatting, and then click on the right side arrow to open up a style dialog. Thank you for your reply.

XP Corona Theme has the "off by 20 pixels" problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi, I am a newbie stardock/windowblinds user, and have a problem with the XP Corona Theme written by Pixstudio. It's in the themes section of the Theme Manager. Windows thinks all the popup windows are shorter than they really are for some reason. When an application like MS Word pops up a dialog (for changing a font style from the Styles and Formatting menu, for example), the dialog box hangs off the bottom of my screen so I can hardly click the buttons on the bottom of the dialog. I