DaveRI

DaveRI

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Reply to edit skins in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Try temporarily changing your window text color to something else and see if it changes that dialog's text. Then you'll know what you're up against. Sometimes Adobe will misuse System Color/Buttonface. You might try temporarily changing that to see if it changes the background in that dialog. You can also look at your other system colors to see if you find one that matches that dialog background. Adobe is a little inconsistent in what system colors it picks u

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Reply to Excluding Program(s)? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="CybaGirl" reply="5" id="3817098"] I also downloaded WIndows Blinds yesterday and installed that as I have been a Stardock subscriber for many years. Anyway that works well and doesn't seem to have the same issue that Windows Blinds does for some reason. [/quote] I'm guessing you meant you downloaded Curtains yesterday... etc. Yes, Curtains doesn't change system colors and doesn't try to skin as thoroughly as WindowBlinds, which lets Win10 and programs run

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Reply to Use WindowBlinds for Titlebar Frame Only (No tweaking the Taskbar or Start Menu) in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

A tip: To prevent WindowBlinds from loading at boot, hold down the [Ctrl] key while pressing [Enter] at the logon screen. That could be very useful if you end up stuck with a crashing skin attempting to load. You can then apply a different skin within WindowBlinds and/or delete the problem skin. I don't know that it will be a problem, but I don't know that it won't. I'd apply a different skin before deleting the problem skin, it might go better.

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Reply to animation in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jaltadonna5" reply="13" id="3813730"] Are you talking in skinstudio or photoshop that you have to apply the skin twice [/quote] In SkinStudio, when making changes on the "Animation" tab.

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Reply to animation in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

I took the Pressurized start button and split it into individual state files, and ran it through SKS's frame builder. It generated a start button that ran right (not backwards) but changed it from 86x30 per state to 455x40 per state, adding transparency. That's not a typo, it was 455 pixels wide per state for a total width of 6,370. I don't know what it's doing. I'm patient, but not a total masochist. This is when I would stack the individual frames on top of e

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Reply to animation in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

I don't believe there are really any size constraints (within reason) for a Start Button in WindowBlinds. For example, in the skin I linked, she has a Start Button where each state/frame is 86x30. She has 14 states, so her total image size is 1204x30 (86x14=1204). You do need to make sure (the individual state width) x (the number of states) = (the total image size). I've seen a lot of different sizes of Start button images. Are you using that "Build high dpi image" button

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Reply to animation in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

If you're talking about a Start Button animation like you were in your earlier post, this skin has an animated Start Button and you might download and look at it to see if it tells you anything; https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/6928/ I've no idea what would make one go backwards.

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