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Action_Jay
Comment #102 Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:52 PM
Comment #102 Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:52 PM
Yummmmmmm 
There's effects in this skin that I've never seen anywhere else, and I wonder why there aren't more people using them. The subtle animation in menus and the taskbar when you mouseover them is beautiful. The skin's so complete it makes other 'complete' skins look amateurish. And I love how it doesn't drastically alter the look of windows with chunky buttons or needless extra features.
There's effects in this skin that I've never seen anywhere else, and I wonder why there aren't more people using them. The subtle animation in menus and the taskbar when you mouseover them is beautiful. The skin's so complete it makes other 'complete' skins look amateurish. And I love how it doesn't drastically alter the look of windows with chunky buttons or needless extra features.
Surj
Comment #103 Friday, January 24, 2003 6:35 PM
Comment #103 Friday, January 24, 2003 6:35 PM
awesome job. When i customize the color, it doesnt change the bacground on my control panel in category view, its still blue. Not sure if thats wb4 problem, skin oversight, or my fault though
GreenReaper
Comment #104 Friday, January 24, 2003 6:41 PM
Comment #104 Friday, January 24, 2003 6:41 PM
This is a problem with WB - it doesn't (yet) support colour masking of some shellstyle colours. To workaround this, set "Force colouring support" in Display Properties/Appearance/Advanced. Blackcomb will support it correctly when WB does (probably by the time WB 4 is formally released).
Primerica_801
Comment #106 Friday, January 24, 2003 8:21 PM
Comment #106 Friday, January 24, 2003 8:21 PM
Very nice job. The color is great and looks beautiful on my computer! 
Dan Shield
Comment #107 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:08 PM
Comment #107 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:08 PM
Great skin. I only have one problem. Checkboxes don't work in VS.NET. It's impossible to tell whether a checkbox is checked or not. It always appears unchecked. That's probably a minor point, since not too many people here seem to us VS.NET
Other than that, outstanding. One of my favorites.
Other than that, outstanding. One of my favorites.
GreenReaper
Comment #108 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:43 PM
Comment #108 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:43 PM
Odd. It's working here, in both the development environment and in applications I compile - however mouseover does not work. Are you using the WB4 alpha? If not, then I suspect it's been fixed (somewhat) in that - if so, where are the checkboxes that don't work?
Dan Shield
Comment #109 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:48 PM
Comment #109 Friday, January 24, 2003 10:48 PM
Yes, I am using the WB4 alpha, but it happend with the previous version of Blackcomb on WB3.5 as well. The checkboxes work perfectly everywhere else.
Within VS.NET, I haven't found a check box that will work. I usually try it out with the task list or the build configuration dialog. I'm not certain, but I *think* Blackcomb is the only skin that has had this problem. There might have been others, but I must not have used them long enought to be memorable. LOL
Within VS.NET, I haven't found a check box that will work. I usually try it out with the task list or the build configuration dialog. I'm not certain, but I *think* Blackcomb is the only skin that has had this problem. There might have been others, but I must not have used them long enought to be memorable. LOL
Dan Shield
Comment #110 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:01 PM
Comment #110 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:01 PM
I take that back. Most of the checkboxes seem to be OK, however the two I mentioned previously do not. Also, under "Tools" | "Customize Toolbox..." the "COM Components" tab checkboxes don't work, but they do on the ".NET Framework Components" tab.
HTH
HTH
GreenReaper
Comment #111 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:09 PM
Comment #111 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:09 PM
Ah, I see the problem (thought you meant "real" checkboxes, that get skinned). They messed up and made an assumption about window background colour and button text colour being different. With Blackcomb it's the same (white), so the only way you can tell is if the task is crossed out or not. Sorry, not much that can be done about that, other than suggest you try Blackcomb Dark which doesn't have that problem. 
Dan Shield
Comment #112 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:19 PM
Comment #112 Friday, January 24, 2003 11:19 PM
Thx for looking into it. Glad to know it wasn't just me being dumb. (or maybe it was...)
paulaakiyama
Comment #114 Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:51 AM
Comment #114 Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:51 AM
someone can help me? The task panels don't get skinned...
GreenReaper
Comment #115 Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:33 AM
Comment #115 Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:33 AM
paula: Using a non-English version of XP? That could be the problem - someone reported that the greek version had the same problem. If that's it, I'd hope it would soon be fixed.
s4r
Comment #116 Sunday, January 26, 2003 2:52 AM
Comment #116 Sunday, January 26, 2003 2:52 AM
My system folders such as control panel and network don't get skinned, it still has the light blue winxp look.
I love the skin though, its great.
I love the skin though, its great.
GreenReaper
Comment #117 Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:58 AM
Comment #117 Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:58 AM
s4r: You need WindowBlinds 4 to get those features - currently it's only available to ODNT subscribers, but it should be out for everyone in a bit.
Filippo Motta
Comment #118 Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:25 AM
Comment #118 Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:25 AM
Text in Office 11 folders list are white on white.
No way to fix it!
No way to fix it!
GreenReaper
Comment #119 Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:41 AM
Comment #119 Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:41 AM
I don't have Office 11, but it's likely that Microsoft assumed button text was black - if so, there's not really anything I can do about it (although if you try Blackcomb Dark it will probably be readable). Sorry. 
J Swan
Comment #120 Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:30 PM
Comment #120 Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:30 PM
I'm going nuts here... I've added a desktop wallpaper (jpg) and would like to make my desktop icons transparent so the desktop "appearance" color doesn't show. I'm using WB4 (I think.. listed as 3.9 when I downloaded) Windows XP. I've tried the following; Transparent settings in Windows FX, Changed the "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop" with windows, set the "Force colouring support� other misc settings, nothing seems to work. FYI - I'm not able to change the desktop color either. Every time I reboot it changes back to the default. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions! GREAT SKIN!!!!
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Comment #101 Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:16 PM
Can you sent me a screenshot of that part of the screen (preferably in PNG, GIF or JPG format, not BMP)? I haven't heard of this problem before, but it might well be something to do with the fact that I used a TGA image for it - TGA support is still new in WB.