Thanks for the update, Neil. My WB8 is now perfect on Windows7

With latest beta no matter what i try i get error when i try to apply themes (any theme) on windows 8 x64. I have tried uninstall and reinstall (let it reboot and all) yet still no go.

Works fine on my Windows 7 x64 machine tho... so odd one.

Eset endpoint security with the HIPS rule applied as per the installer. Same config as on win7 machine which makes this even more odd... will check and make sure hips rule stuck.

Edit: It seems the rule didn't stick before.. works great now

Fyi.. the themes added in latest release are cool.

Link to skin, Neil: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7710/

When in WB Config, I hit edit with skin studio and it launches the site for me to download SKS,  I can launch and run SKS manually.

Windows 7 Ultimate (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533) WindowBlinds 7.98 (014 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

    Wblind.dll      2013/06/13 17:23:ll     Wblind64.dll      2013/06/13 17:23:18     Wbsrv.dll      2013/06/06 13:12:07     WB8Config.exe      2013/06/13 13:50:27     Wbload.dll           2013/06/04 10:10:39     Screen.exe      2013/06/06 09:52:23

SkinStudio 8.0 Beta

[quote who="2of3" reply="257" id="3371296"]
Quoting 2of3, reply 252Window frames aren't tiling like they should.

This is how it looked on WB7:

Link to skin, Neil: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7710/[/quote]

It looks like it is caused by something in the skin.

The top bar has margins which mean there is no middle.  WB will look at the skin on load and spot that there is no middle so based on the size the most efficient thing to do would be a stretch.  However the painting code for frames ignores the top / bottom margins for top / bottom borders and so the middle now becomes what you defined as the top.

Remove the incorrect margin and it should be ok.

Future WB builds will also detect this case and go with what the skin set.

I didn't quite get what you meant, but tweaking the margins did the trick. Guess I'll have to update the skin.

Boboxi the onscreen keyboard works fine for me. Win 8 64bit.

Provide more information.

Does it happen with all blinds?

Are you accessing the keyboard properly? AKA, Rightclick Taskbar, Toolbars, Touch Keyboard. That puts the keyboard icon on your taskbar. Left click the icon and the keyboard should work.

I am unable to reproduce this.

Can you reproduce it with the Windows default skin?

I looked at the path for the broken image but cannot find it.  Can you repost or describe in more detail?

The Eset rule failed to set thus causing HIPS issue so that one is solved but id id stumble on another issue... on same machine when i scroll with my thinkpads ultranav (eraser tip scroll) the config app crashes freezing mouse until process terminates.

Not sure how to capture that tho?

OS: Win8 x64

The "Shut down" text is visible(it's not supposed to be) in start8 and the right-click menu is often hidden behind taskbar, I'm using Mechos skin.

Can I make a recommendation? If you are going to have Windows 7 skins work in Windows 8, then they must look exactly the same in Windows 8 as they do in Windows 7. The only exceptions to this should be those areas in Windows 8 that are not skinnable at all.  If you cannot do this then you need to make SKS8 sub-style capable as SKS7 was for XP/Vista/Win7, and have WB8 apply the appropriate 7/8 OS sub-style like WB7 did.

Just my opinion.