I'm not at home right now, so I can't post a screenshot.

EDIT: See below for screenshot.

Even if I completely remove transparency from the image, Window Blinds still draws it with transparency. I can see this by changing the window background colour to something like orange. The selection/focus images will be translucent, with the orange clearly visible behind it.

So as I said earlier, it seems like Window Blinds is adding it's own transparency to an already transparent image. The only way I have found to make them look ok is to turn the contrast way up, so the images are really vivid dark blue.

Btw if you go to painting tab/mode, the one next to the Glyph, turn on the "Grid" you can simulate how the button will be draw. if you can see the grid behind the button. It simulate how it will look on actual.

This is the image for the list view. I copied each state image directly from the Windows 7 theme file. Note that it uses pre-multiplied alpha, so most applications (i.e. Gimp, your web browser) render it darker than it should be.

This is what the grid preview looks like in Skin Studio. As you can see, the image is translucent.

And this is what it looks like in Explorer with the theme applied.

As you can see, it's way lighter than the normal Windows 7 theme.

In case you are wondering if I have any extra settings, this is what the code tab shows:

Image=my skin\explorerlist.tga
LeftWidth=3
RightWidth=3
TopHeight=6
BottomHeight=6
Trans=1
PerPixel=1
Vert=0
ApplyColour=0
PreMultipliedAlpha=1
FrameCount=6
GlyphVert=0

The use of pre-multiplied alpha is not the problem, as I see the exact same thing when using normal alpha.

It's not the image, unless there is some magic setting in either png or tga that affects overall transparency in addition to per-pixel alpha.

May I see the image you use in your theme? The one you showed me in the other thread, with the green selection colour.

Ok, so they do not have a translucent background.

Now, set your window background colour to something like blue or red, and I bet you'll see that colour bleed through the yellow, blue and green in you image. Because Window Blinds does it's own alpha blending in addition to the alpha in the image.

I don't think you understand me. I'm asking you to do that. You don't seem to believe that Window Blinds is doing anything with the transparency, saying that it must be something wrong with my image. Well I want to see what it looks like for you, to prove that it's not something wrong with my image or my settings.

Hi DaveBax,

By "Windows 7 theme" I literally mean the one that Windows 7 ships with, not a WindowBlinds skin. You can find the .msstyles file in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero.
I use msstyleEditor to extract the images, and Theme Explorer is also useful for showing theme properties.

What I am trying to do here is replicate some of the Aero theme using WindowBlinds. But I am having some trouble as WindowBlinds does not seem to be able to do some things that Windows itself can do natively.

Ok, this is just crazy. This is what the list view looks like when I use an image that's full red, i.e. 0xff0000:

That pink has a saturation of just 26%. What the hell are people to do if they want something darker? It's impossible to create a more red image.

If there is not a setting in WindowBlinds/SkinStudio to control the transparency of that image, then I will have to submit a bug report because this is clearly a problem.

Forwarded to support Dave 

All your's man,. Was just trying to help. As far as customizing. It's amazing you thing the Windows theme engine does it better. Makes me wonder why you ever tried Wb. 

Your question. No I haven't tried win 7 without WB. that I can remember as soon as I got a new OS on my computer it was WB. The thread is all your's enjoy. 

I cannot say that this will be addressed specifically (only because the details are not yet known) but there is an update in the works for WB.  I cannot provide a timeline as to when, however - just keep an eye on the forum.