WB-6 and Photo Shop Premire pro not playing nice together

from Stardock Forums
I just downloaded the tryal version of Adobe's Photo Shop Premire Pro yesterday and had a devel of a time getting the windows, that would pop up and require input, to set properly so I could click on my desired option.
ie. The window that would pop up requiring you to choose "New project, Existing project, or Exit " this window would show, but the active window would revert to the main window and not alow your clicked choice to do anything but make the title bars change quickly to active then back resulting in no choice being registered.
After banging my head against the keyboard a good part of the day, I tryed unloading WB-6. to my amazment PS Premire started to work just fine.

here is my system info. I am also using "Vienna 2" as my active WB.


Microsoft Windows XP
Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.0 (build 32 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
(Default Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Wblind.dll 2007/09/27 17:47:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 19:08:43
Wbconfig.exe 2007/10/01 17:35:33
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2007/09/24 19:08:06
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2007/10/01 11:23:24
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm not quite sure if you're asking for help or just wanting to report the incompatability, but:

Do you know about excluding an application from Windowblinds? It sounds like what I'd do here.

Go into Windowblinds Configuration, "Settings" tab (at the top), "Change the look of an app" (just under the tabs), "Add per application setting" (towards the top), browse to the .exe file for the program, click (or doubleclick(?) on it, click on the first box in the new "Per application settings" window which is "Ignore this application and do not skin it", click on "OK" button.

That should allow your application to run without unloading Windowblinds each time.

If that takes care of the problem, you might play with the setting later by going back to the same place, but instead of clicking on "add per application setting" double click on the Photoshop icon which will now be showing in the "Per app" window. You can then uncheck the "Ignore this app..." box and select another option like "Only skin this applications titlebar" and see if that works.

I've always ended up excluding my Photoshop version (completely different that what you're talking about here) because skinning it seems to be somewhat problematic, although not as severe as what you're describing. Adobe doesn't seem to follow whatever conventions WB relies upon to skin well.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Dave,

thank you for the response and a solution. I had just brought it up as what I thought was a bug.
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