STARDOCK SUPPORT - HELP !!! - Per Application Skinning not working in 4.50G

Published on March 14, 2005 By tcmiller In WindowBlinds

Please look at this issue. It looks like the setting for yahoo exclusion also blocks skinning of any other program.
see image at Link
Regards
TCM

Comments

Thomas Thomassen

on Mar 14, 2005

That's odd. Don't know what it could be though. However, the official support channel for any SD product is support@stardock.com

Steve Grenier

on Mar 14, 2005

Did you make sure the skin your using wasn't deleted or moved? Per application works fine for me.

tcmiller

on Mar 14, 2005

Ok, I am willing to try anything, what if I uninstall all WB, remove registry entries, reboot and reinstall. Could that work?

Corky_O

on Mar 14, 2005

Removing registry entries is not necessarily a requirement.

You can just deselect any options selected to "Load at start-up or similar" in customizing software, return Windows to the default theme including any icons, unload all programs.

Then do the uninstall, reboot, then delete any leftover WB subdirectories in Program Files.

Reinstall, reboot, load WB and apply a skin, then go to the per applications and select the exclusions, hit "apply changes" - should be okay.

BTW - I apologize if you have already tried this one, I am not Stardock Support and just offer this as a possible solution. I do use the Per Application exclusion for the new Corel Painter IX , which has issues with the title bar button functions, and tell WB to completely ignore the program (the first option), and have seen no adverse effects so far.

tcmiller

on Mar 14, 2005

Well, after some time and work the follwing is now the situation. I re-installed WB after uninstall, removed everything etc. Even removed any registry entries. Loaded 4.5F and then applied Pearle... skin. Recolored it and saved it as a subskin. Used per application for IExporer and it worked. Then copied my skins back to WB, deleted all .WB$ files, applied my current skin OpusOS, user Per Application on a recolored OpusOS for IE and, kaboom, it did not work. Nothing got skinned in IE, no titlebar visible.
So opened SkinStudio, opened a recolored version of OpusOS, saved it as a new seperated skin in its own directory. Then applied it to IE with per Application and, jippy, it worked. Seems like there is an issue with applying a subskin from OpusOS. The problem stays with subskins on OpusOS, even with the standard subs such as Olive or Deep. Resolving this now by saving my subskins as Normal Skins in their own directory.
Still think there is something wrong with WB, maybe it happend when I got SDCZIP.DLL errors (many of them) trying to restore WB after I installed 4.5d.
I will leave it as is for now. If Stardock wants ant contact to what happed etc., please contact me.
Thank you all for the replies.
Regards, TCM

tcmiller

on Mar 21, 2005

Ok, in the last few days I switched to the System 2 skin, it has several sub-skins. When I apply a subskin to a program with Per Application settings, the program is not skinned at all. Nothing. Can anyone duplicate this? I have un- installed the complete SD suite, WB, FX, etc. Nothing helps. I realy think it has to do with the settings for Yahoo.
PLEASE, anyone? All I can do now is save every subskin as a mainskin.
Regards,
TCM

lamowski

on Mar 21, 2005

tcmiller

on Mar 22, 2005

ANYONE, Stardock, please have a look at this, it is a pain in the ......

Cavan1

on Mar 22, 2005

Just a guess, using sub skin as per app. and main skin as normal at same time, subs and main will share parts of skin, common images, text settings. Maybe an issue of WindowBlinds tring to aplly as two seperate skins due to the
shared info. Again just a guess.

tcmiller

on Mar 23, 2005

I also think it has to do with some internaly in build 4.50efgh. When I restore 4.50.044 The Per Application Skinning works without any problem. Regards TCM

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