This blows away SKS5!

Right on the money! Just what I wanted... the code editor is in the program!
Thank you Neil and Stardock Team~!
This is awesome - now we can really get down on this stuff and save time too!
Cool!


SGT

More soon as I run this program at doing some cool stuff! ya~!

Alot of nice improvements with the latest Beta.   

Where can I get now?

Could you confirm the above Start Panel animation (eg. Dragon in Molten) remains an inactive feature at this stage? Or am I just not looking hard enough? Tks
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I keep having problems with some of the editors. Like, I'll go to painting margins in almost anything and occasionally the program will just freeze or go into this really slow state... and when I click on anything in the painting margins settings, it keeps doing it... I try restarting the program, reopening the skin, and it does the same thing, rendering the program useless and leaving me unable to continue making my visual style... any thoughts?

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:
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As much as I searched your site, I can't find what the differences are between Skin Studio, and Skin Studio Pro. Will BOTH have the new interface? The two seem to be presented as interchangeable, which I'm sure is not the case. The pictured one looks really good as opposed to what is currently in circulation. Congrats to the team which developed the new interface.   

Perhaps if you presented them "side by side" we could come to a better informed decision as to which we really need or want.

I'm slightly miffed because I think Skin Studio Pro should be part of the package with Object Dock, as well as a subscription to Wincustomize.com, but maybe that's because I've always wanted to make some skins but couldn't figure how to do it in it's present format.

Thanks for the opportunity to discuss this.

I just had to install Vista to try this out. Dual booting Vista on a RAID 0 drive was a pain. I still have a bunch of issues with this Vista installation, but I am not going to spend my time fixing those. My main OS is Windows XP 64 bit.

I really like the look and feel and organization of the new Skin Studio. I have a few comments though.

- Can I browse and open a theme folder outside of the public folder? If you are a software developer, you know you don't want make change directly in your production environment. You do stuff in a development area, test it and then apply it. You may also use a source control system for your own code (skin). All these are possible with current system but it is not a clean solution.

- Can I directly work from the WBA file? I know this is very complicated.

- Has it become too simple for the power user? Remember the Gnome Vs KDE arguments.

- Full preview is not full enough. More commonly used elements please.

- My own theme looks ugly on Vista. Not anyone else's fault. It was ok on XP.

- One of my secret expectation for WindowBlinds 6.0 was that it would keep wba files instead of uncompressed folders. Files will be extracted on a needed basis or only for the active skin. Clutter reduction.

When I try to launch SkinStudio 6, I get this error:

"This preview release of SkinStudio 6 has detected an installation error."



I try to reinstall, but still get this error and cannot use SkinStudio 6.

Anybody get this too?

Sorry for the spam. I created a new skin using SkinStudio 6 and this is from the UIS file.

Generator=Stardock SkinStudio Professional ver 5.0.1, Build 1112 - http://www.skinstudio.net
WBVer=500

I see 2 possible inconsistencies here.
- SkinStudio version
- WBVer

PS: I opened the UIS file in notepad and set the background color.

Does anyone answer the salient points and questions we're raising?????

First and ONLY toolbar I ever installed.....thanks.