Broken Alpha Channel

I don't know why this is happening but i spent a long time trying to find a fix or a topic of someone addressing this problem.

The window "alpha" is weirdly black like it doesn't initialize the alpha channel, it turns solid if i change the skin color.

i took a screen-shot of a window and the preview of how it should look:

Any hints would be appreciated.

windowblinds

Locked Post

Advanced Search

Watch this post

Do not email me updates for this post Email me updates for this post

Successfully updated karma reason!

Can you run Aero?

Successfully updated karma reason!

yes, that has no problem.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Copy and paste your WB about info here. Maybe that will reveal something. Mine looks like this:

Windows 7 Home Premium (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
WindowBlinds 8.04 (025 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

    Wblind.dll        2014/04/22 20:21:ll
    Wblind64.dll        2014/04/22 20:21:49
    Wbsrv.dll        2013/06/18 15:44:40
    WB8Config.exe        2014/05/14 14:23:17
    Wbload.dll             2014/01/16 16:15:08
    Screen.exe        2013/06/06 15:52:23

Successfully updated karma reason!

Sign Up or Login and this ad disappears!
There are many great features available to you once you register. Sign Up for a free account and browse the forums without ads.

Windows 7 Professional (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
WindowBlinds 8.05 (027 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

    Wblind.dll        2014/05/14 14:23:ll
    Wblind64.dll        2014/05/14 14:23:49
    Wbsrv.dll        2013/06/18 15:44:40
    WB8Config.exe        2014/05/14 14:23:17
    Wbload.dll             2014/05/05 22:34:43
    Screen.exe        2013/06/06 15:52:23

p.s. it worked fine the first week i used this skin.

Edit:

It could be something to do with Desktop Window Manager,

Depth of color (32 bit) or Graphics Card, I mean, I know it could be anything,

and we might not be able to figure out how to fix this, but i though I'd check here.

Successfully updated karma reason!

How did you assign the Alpha channel. within the picture file itself using ARGB, or through the theme configuration options within WindowBlinds?

If you did it through the picture file, I'm not sure what's causing the error, however I've discovered the same problem while skinning start 8 with custom Alpha values when editing it in SkinStudio. This leads me to believe there's non-compatibility with Win 8.1 on this select process.

Use the Background - Explorer Background option within WB, and adjust the Active/Inactive opacity levels

Successfully updated karma reason!