MikeB314

MikeB314

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Reply to Raise Your Hand in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It took me a couple of months to get used to SKS6 and finally stop using SKS5 completely. It was a difficult habit to break, and for a while I would make my XP skins in 5, then switch to 6 and make the Vista substyles. I'd been using 5 for many years and when you're really comfortable with a program, it's natural to resist major design changes that impact your workflow. But it really didn't take long to develop a new workflow with SKS6. However, the only way to really get used to it is

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Reply to [Solved] How do I change this? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Well, I actually made that WB. :) But the main skin is a light background version. It was created just to avoid these problems. If you use that substyle, you'll be all set. The dark background substyle was included for anyone who was willing to overlook those issues.

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Reply to [Solved] How do I change this? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

It looks like you're running a skin that uses dark window backgrounds. This is a perfect example of why some of us don't design skins like that. :) Open it up in SkinStudio and go to the Change Skin Colors section. Switch the drop-down menu to "Show skin defined system colors" and you will most likely find that "Window background" is the color you need to change. You may need to modify the "Window text" color also to make sure it contrasts well enough. Most likely it was se

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Reply to Looking around for a VISTA skin that has multiple features! in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

8SE8, the catch is that the fancy per-pixel window frames introduced a couple years ago with WB5 haven't supported any additional buttons aside from the standard min/max/close. And since everybody likes to make skins with the smoothest, cleanest looking window frames possible, we aren't seeing many new skins with the old style window frames and lots of extra buttons. On the bright side, per-pixel window frames now support a few custom buttons as of very recently, so per

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Reply to Dual Birthday! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Thanks all! I am not 39 but...I wont complain[/quote] I'm not 33 anymore either, but I'll take a bonus year. :) I think it was still March 13th in WC's time zone when Snowy looked up our ages .

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Reply to Wincustomize skin? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Go to the home page and look at the top of the right column for the "Subscriber Resources" link. It's in the list under your user name and icon. Or go here: https://www.wincustomize.com/subscribers.aspx :)

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Reply to Skin Naming in Community WinCustomize Forums

I usually reference a thesaurus, dictionary, or encyclopedia if I have a basic idea to start with. I often look at space and science web sites and scan for words or prefixes or suffixes that are interesting. I tend to make a list of them and see what I can mash together or alter to make a decent name. Once I settle on something, I open up Stardock Central and search the WC galleries to see if anyone else has already used it.

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Reply to Stardock & Mike Bryant Did it Again "Solar Empire desktop" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Darken, the skin does not have perpixel frames, but Vista shadows are not supposed to be enabled in it either, since they don't match the frame shape. I'm not sure why you have shadows in your screenshot. I also have no idea why half of your window frame doesn't show up. There's no reason why those progress bars shouldn't be skinned either. You should probably contact support about that one. Maybe you got a bad download? As for the Vista ready bit... most, if not all possible Vista pa

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Reply to WB Skins: difference between normal and 48px ? in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I would guess it refers to 48px icons on the start menu. Does the skin have a compact start menu (icons with no text on the right side)? If so, then the size of your desktop icons will impact how things align there. Sometimes skin authors will make an extra substyle to support different icons sizes. In XP, normal icons are 32x32, large icons are 48x48.

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Reply to Gadget Problems.. in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

I don't really have any clue how DX interacts with the Vista sidebar. I just selected the option when I exported my gadget and let DX worry about the rest. I would expect that all sidebar gadgets created with DX would suffer from the same problem.

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Reply to Content margins in popup menus in SkinStudio WinCustomize Forums

Unfortunately, there aren't any content margins for popup menus. The shadow is drawn by Windows and it assumes all menus are rectangular. So you have to either work with that, or disable those shadows and make the shadow part of your menu image instead. That doesn't leave you much room to work with though, since there are no content margins. This is the case on both XP and Vista. Good luck and happy new year to you too! :)

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