I've already posted this in the newsgroups, but they seem to get very few visitors these days.

On my continuing quest to re-aquaint myself with the WindowBlinds skinning engine, I've been checking out my old skins with WB4. As all of my skins use both the WBAmp and CClock plugins, I was rather dismayed to see that neither seem to function correctly with WB4.

Firstly, with WBAmp, when creating a song title 'button' with an image background, all that seems to be displayed is a solid black box. The title doesn't even appear over the black. So on all of my skins there is now a horrible long black box where once there was a carefully skinned scrolling song title display!

Secondly, with CClock, the time display seems to only update when the mouse pointer is either moved over or clicked on some part of the window border. This can be seen by setting the clock to display seconds and the display update period to a small amount. Leave the window open and the mouse pointer stationary, and the time freezes. Move the mouse over the border, and the time updates.

What on earth has happened? These skins all used to function fine on older versions of WB, but now I'm finding all sorts of problems. It also makes it slightly pointless trying to make a skin with these features, as they are now practically useless.

Has anyone else noticed these problems? For reference, I've noticed the problem with the following skins - 'dinks', 'metalX' and 'tactile'. Can anyone else using WB4 with these skins confirm that it's not just my system?

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