Perpixel hotspot offset (left align caption buttons)

using the lastest windows blinds beta (also tried using non-beta)

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Dear skinning community,
When using a perpixel skin which has a shadow on left,right, and bottom, i noticed that clicking the minimize button sometimes clicks on the x button. The hotspots are all misaligned, but this only occurs when the window is maximized (when the shadow is not drawn on either side). I tried to edit it skin studio by playing around with the button y-offset, which has 2 diffrent values (one for minmized windows and one for maximized windows) but still the button's hotspot did not match with the button's image. i inspected the button image and there is nothing wrong with it. I think this is a bug in windows blinds, becuase when I turn perpixel off, the skin works perfect! The buttons are aligned to the left.

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I have looked on google with out any results of this issue.

Thanks
windowblinds
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Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I had this problem with many perpixel mac like themes which had the buttons on the left. I want to say it's the skins fault... but the button image hasn't changed when you maximize the window. the same image is used in both. So i made my own skin. Using the basic stardock perpixel skin in skin studio i replaced the close button with a simple red square which would turn blue on mouse over. Then left aligned it and put the program icon more to the right. At first it seems the hotspot was correctly calculated, but i didn't want the glow, and the other skins did not have glow.
This is a simple square, nothing special, therefore it is easy to see where the hotspot should be.


Please also note: when i put the button back on the right the hotspot went back into it's place.
So therefore i must conclude the following:
Under the following conditions the hotspot is calculated incorrectly:

1.) The skin is perpixel
2.) The skin does not use any glow effects for the buttons.
3.) The button is aligned to the left.

Thank you,
Corey Malone