How to I change the color of the top of an active and inactive window

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This is a very basic requirement, and it's likely very easy, but I just cannot find how to do it with the precision skin for example.

In WindowBlinds itself, I don't see the color of the top of window in "Change System Color".

In Skinstudio, I don't see it in "Edit title bars and WindowsFrame"

I must be missing something really obvious!

 

Edit: "Edit title bars and WindowsFrame" -> "Edit tool windows" -> "Caption" shows the color for active and inactive windows for some reason did not work on the virtual machine and trial version I was testing on, but on the real machine where I have a license it works. Weird, but case closed.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

And I'd top that question with: "Is there a way to get a standard RGB color picker instead of this non conventional HSL-like one ?"

I'd like to input my 0-255/0x0-0xFF values by myself instead to do a picky-guess-what-you-got color selector.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting David_KOCH, reply 1

And I'd top that question with: "Is there a way to get a standard RGB color picker instead of this non conventional HSL-like one ?"

I'd like to input my 0-255/0x0-0xFF values by myself instead to do a picky-guess-what-you-got color selector.
End of David_KOCH's quote

Hello,

If you talking about Skinstudio's Change Skin Colours" you have the RGB value as shown below.


Thanks.
Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

It is also worth pointing out that is the OS standard colour picker.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting David_KOCH, reply 4

No, In WindowBlind, Style, Modify style, I'm not into using SkinStudio.
End of David_KOCH's quote

I have forward your request to the Stardock Support Team for their review and recommendations. We really do appreciate your feedback.
Thanks.
Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting David_KOCH, reply 4

No, In WindowBlind, Style, Modify style, I'm not into using SkinStudio.
End of David_KOCH's quote

Ahh.  I am afraid due to how recolouring works it is not possible to have a specific colour.  It works by hue shifting and everything is relative to the colour in the skin so you can make something 10% lighter, or 10% more saturated, or shift it so blues become greens, but you cannot pick RGB(30,50,45) for example as it would be meaningless other than a hue value.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

I had also trouble doing that directly in WB Modify style. Changing system colors may have worked the first time, but you don't have the same flexibility as with Skin Studio.

Skin Studio may look a bit daunting at first, but a couple of days and a lot of Google allows to learn to use it, and then it's very powerful.

Mixing styles is also a very powerful feature. If you really want a W7 or XP look & feel, the Win Retro taskbar is perfect, while for the rest, Precision (with some mods to make the date, size, etc... fields of the explorer more visible instead of being white and very hard to see) is quite nice.

The whole Win Retro Style is (my taste only) pretty ugly, to dark and too much contrast.

Are links allowed here? If yes, and if somebody is interested, I could post a link to the whole modified Precision and Win Retro directories with my mods. Just in case somebody is *exactly* as nutter about these details as me.

Forget Corporate, it's incompatible with too many programs.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Bob4K, reply 7

Are links allowed here? If yes, and if somebody is interested, I could post a link to the whole modified Precision and Win Retro directories with my mods. Just in case somebody is *exactly* as nutter about these details as me.
End of Bob4K's quote

I don't think that is allowed. Since you modified someone work, you will need that original artist permission to post it. You can mod it just for your own use. Unless it is 100 percent your own work, you are not suppose to share it with anyone.

Thank you,

Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.