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Application Colors

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I'm trying to change the "Application Background" color property to grey as opposed to white so I can read the white text on a grey (darker) background

In Windows XP this normally would be under Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Advanced > Item > Application Background

Which attribute would I change in WindowBlinds to get the desired effect? Going through the 'Other Advanced Controls' and changing the attribute in Windows seems to work for the current session, but when I log back in I have to keep changing it.

So what I'm looking for is the syntax in the code of a given skin to added the proper attribute...

Thanks..
windowblinds
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Doc -

Get SkinStudio (available for free from Stardock). Install it and open the skin in question in SkinStudio. You will see a Preview Pane in the middle of the SkinStudio application window. Along the left side of the Preview Pane you'll see a side panel with several large icons (Windows, Controls, XP Taskbar, etc.). Click on the Classic Colors icon in the side panel. If you don't see it, you need to scroll down to it using the scroller at the bottom of the side panel. Then you'll see the Preview Window change to an image of the classic layout & colors similar to the one you are used to seeing in Display Properties.

Here's where it gets a little tricky - the color you want to set is not the color you see in the Active Window (the one you'd set in Display Properties), it is the window background color of the Inactive Window in the SkinStudio Preview. (Why they chose to do this counterintuitively, I don't know). Click in an open area of the Inactive Window and the "Background - Window" item will be highlighted in the upper right pane of SkinStudio. You can then change the RGB values in the pane below the Preview to the color you want. Save the skin, then reload the skin. The color should "stick" through a reboot that way.

Cheers,
Daiwa
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