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Thanks!

Ok, so this issue it's definitely being looked into? That's great to hear. Earlier you sounded like you weren't sure, so I just wanted to clarify.

I know that Windows will allow it, as the Aero theme has selection, mouse-over, etc images with transparency. Each one is different, therefore each one must be able to be changed. And yet, Window Blinds for some reason has hard-coded transparency and (unless you manually force extra images) it hard-codes other states like disabled. By that I mean that it automatically greys the existing image used for selection.

Yes, you basically said that they were not looking at it. Well I am asking for someone to look at it. I assume they have some sort of issue tracking system, so do they have a "ticket" for this issue? I would be happy to provide more details if needed.

Can I get an update on this? Do any of the devs know about it? Right now, my list view selection looks horribly pale. No matter how dark I make the source image, it always ends up being too light. I'd really like this fixed, and I'd also like an explanation of why the devs made it this way in the first place.

Whist trying to make a theme that looks as close to Windows 7 Aero as possible ( for my own purpose only ) I have found many problems with Window Blinds where it cannot do what Windows' own theme engine can. Transparency of list-view items cannot be controlled (see this thread ). Skin studio does not show all possible states of list-view items (<a href="../488416/l

Thanks.

[quote who="DaveBax" reply="22" id="3711059"]It's amazing you thing the Windows theme engine does it better. Makes me wonder why you ever tried Wb. [/quote] Because Windows doesn't let you use a different theme, duh! WindowBlinds is really the only way to go. I have read about replacing the .msstyles file, but apparently you need to patch some files in order to do so, which is not ideal. All I really want to do is to make my new Windows 10 system look a little more l

[quote who="DaveBax" reply="19" id="3711035"] Could be it's so hard coded into the windows system it can't be corrected. I at least feel better knowing I tried like hell to fix this thing and even checked with another person.[/quote] Have you ever used Windows 7 without WindowBlinds? If so, then you will very easily see that the default selection and highlight colour of list views is a lot darker than my WindowBlinds theme. So this proves that Window's own theme engine

Ok, this is just crazy. This is what the list view looks like when I use an image that's full red, i.e. 0xff0000: That pink has a saturation of just 26%. What the hell are people to do if they want something darker? It's impossible to create a more red image. If there is not a setting in WindowBlinds/SkinStudio to control the transparency

Hi DaveBax, By "Windows 7 theme" I literally mean the one that Windows 7 ships with, not a WindowBlinds skin. You can find the .msstyles file in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero. I use msstyleEditor to extract the images, and Theme Explorer is also useful for showing theme properties. What I am trying to do here is replicate some of the Aero theme using WindowBlinds. But

I don't think you understand me. I'm asking you to do that. You don't seem to believe that Window Blinds is doing anything with the transparency, saying that it must be something wrong with my image. Well I want to see what it looks like for you, to prove that it's not something wrong with my image or my settings.

Ok, so they do not have a translucent background. Now, set your window background colour to something like blue or red, and I bet you'll see that colour bleed through the yellow, blue and green in you image. Because Window Blinds does it's own alpha blending in addition to the alpha in the image.

It's not the image, unless there is some magic setting in either png or tga that affects overall transparency in addition to per-pixel alpha. May I see the image you use in your theme? The one you showed me in the other thread, with the green selection colour.

This is the image for the list view. I copied each state image directly from the Windows 7 theme file. Note that it uses pre-multiplied alpha, so most applications (i.e. Gimp, your web browser) render it darker than it should be. This is what the grid preview looks like in Skin Studio. As you can see, the image is translucent. <img

Thanks, I will try that.

After enabling advanced settings in Skin Studio, I was able to adjust the number of frames, and I can now successfully use 6 images. I have found that the images are used for the following states, in order: Focused (i.e. keyboard focus, for selection using the arrow keys) Hot Selected ? Selected not focus Hot Selected That gives me the same level of control as the de

Even if I completely remove transparency from the image, Window Blinds still draws it with transparency. I can see this by changing the window background colour to something like orange. The selection/focus images will be translucent, with the orange clearly visible behind it. So as I said earlier, it seems like Window Blinds is adding it's own transparency to an already transparent image. The only way I have found to make them look ok is to turn the contrast way up, so the images are

I'm not at home right now, so I can't post a screenshot. EDIT: See below for screenshot.

I have solved my other problem , but now I find that the images are too light against the white background. It seems that Window Blinds is drawing them with some transparency, even though the images I provided already have transparency. I took the images from the Windows 7 theme (i.e. straight out of the .msstyles file). Each frame has a blue gradient that varies from 7% to 20% alpha. After a

Ah, well I don't see that "Image count:" control. And I think I know why - I don't have "advanced mode" turned on. Once I get home I will try that. Just out of curiosity, could you post a screenshot of an Explorer window using the theme you usually use. In this window, select 2 files/folders and hover the mouse over a 3rd un-selected item.

Yes, I still need help. The only place I could find to set the frame count was in the frame builder (or whatever it's called) window. On the left it shows each image and on the right are a bunch of buttons and a number control where you can enter the count. Then, it asked me to save, so I saved to the tga file. That changed nothing, as all the frames were already in that image. And it didn't add any properties that I could see in the Code Editor tab. So the next time I opened the

Hi basj, I tried to use a 6 section image like you said, but I could not figure out how to change the image count Skin Studio. No matter what I did using import or frame builder, the count always went back to 3.

[quote who="basj" reply="4" id="3710042"] Just so you know... for me a lot of things in Skinstudio is easier to learn from Trial and Error. [/quote] Well that's not very helpful. How would I have known, through trial and error, that I can provide more images than Skin Studio says and that those extra images will be mapped to valid states. I would prefer decent documentation. However, I will try what you say and see how it goes.

Hi basj, I did see Dani's comment on that other post I linked to, but they did not explain how or why that works. Like, I can't just expect to add more images and have Window Blinds magically know what states to use them for. There must be a mapping of sorts. I will try it when I get home, but I'm not sure if just adding more images will be enough for me. Ideally, I would also like to be able to provide an image for focused, but not selected, items. <img src="https://c