Neil Banfield

Neil Banfield

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Reply to Alpha Per-Pixel theory... in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

You are not losing features as your old skins continue to work just as before. But the per pixel skins will not support the edge clip setting as to implement support for that involves a considerable amount of work for little gain. If you want to prevent windows from covering your docks & widgets when maximized, then you should not have been using screen clip settings in skins anyway. That setting was designed to allow the skin author to show slightly more or less of

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Reply to WindowBlinds 5 BETA 2 available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

theleader: The GT3 skin switcher built into the skin is not aware of changes made to WB5 and so it will not work with WB5. Kevison: The Outlook issue should be resolved in future builds. There is a minor colour scheme applying issue with the current builds which is making certain system colours turn black.

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Reply to Printerdriver crashes after Printprocess in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

If an excluded window is skinning then most likely it is currently not responding. Not responding windows get skinned by explorer (it is complicated, but it is how XP does 'ghost windows' for non responding windows). So its not WB that makes it not responding, its becoming not responding which causes it to skin.

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Reply to Activation maximum reached?........ in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Products can also be activated by e-mail. Given that the products are activated when you download them, the site being down is unlikely to be a problem as it would have been down when you tried to download it anyway regardless of if it has activation or not.

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Reply to Knock Knock in ThinkDesk Stardock Forums

I believe your ThinkDesk 1 year subscription starts counting when ThinkDesk is officially released. So it hasn't started yet. There should be a new Keepsafe build and Multiplicity build coming soon.

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Reply to problem in html-kit in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

We believe the black area is caused by WB not correctly setting one of the system colours. This has been fixed for the next build. On the windowblinds button, this should be in display properties still. If it is not, run regsvr32 wbui.dll from the WB directory on 32 bit Windows OSes. On 64 bit OSes we currently have not updated the display properties UI but will be doing so before final release.

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Reply to WB5 Taskbar Transparency in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

WindowFX and all those other apps do constant transparency. The entire taskbar has one transparency level. If you set this to say 10% then the entire bar is 10% visible and the text would be unreadable. The WindowBlinds 5 feature is per pixel. This gives the skin author so much more control and the text, icons etc can remain fully visible. The side effect is it is not aware of windows under it.

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Reply to WindowBlinds 5 BETA 2 available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

pinchecl: Maximized windows don't have visible left & right frames so thats why there is no per pixel on them I am unsure about your other issues. Per pixel doesn't support custom menubars, MDI images, text backgrounds etc, so if you are talking about that then thats perfectly normal for per pixel skins. Non per pixel skins should continue to work as they did with WB 4.6.

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