I am sorry you have found it confusing.

With regards to editing images, the edit button opens the files in whatever you have set on your computer to edit a png file.

It should never cause that issue you had with the taskbar.  Are you able to send us the style you made as it sounds like some sort of bug.  Are you using v1.0 or v1.01?

Don't give up on us yet though as your feedback has given me an idea to make editing easier which is to make the edit button open up an image appropriately sized if you have not yet defined an image for that part.  This would be easier than lots of text.  In many cases there is no fixed size as images have margins and can thus be resized as you like.  It is designed to be very flexible.

Long term we will be working on improving the documentation for this area too as it is important users can create styles as they like.

Was it just editing which you found confusing, or are there other areas of the app which caused confusion for you?

It does seem that creating a new theme, specifying only the taskbar button, and applying it causes an Explorer crash-restart loop. which is the taskbar flashing/resetting that you're seeing.  You seemed to have stumbled upon something that no one else had tried yet.

To fix your theme, right-click on it (do not click on it), and select "Edit this style".  That will allow you to edit the theme before/without applying it.  Specify an image for the taskbar.  If you don't really want to replace the taskbar, use a fully transparent (i.e., "empty") png file.  Just for that, you can use a little 10x10 image if you want.

Regarding editing the images, you can edit them directly from File Explorer using the right-click "Open with" command to choose the program you want.  The path for the theme images is C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Stardock\Curtains\[ThemeName].

You can also do a Registry Edit to redefine the program used to edit a png, which will also allow you to use it with the Curtains "Edit" button.  Right now I can't seem to come up with a solid 1-2-3 on how to do that, but you can go that route if you like.

As far I I can tell your 6 state button image should be fine, you'll want to define some painting margins for it.

Just from what you've said, I think you really would/will enjoy Curtains, keep plugging at it.   

I can't absolutely say "No", but I really don't think so.  I'd happily be wrong on that.

Quoting randomusername2,

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Hi, I'm back with more questions/feedback

1) Regarding the title bar, too bad, blur would look amazing. I wonder if that feature is planned?

2) Speaking of title bars, I've noticed that the Modern-UI app titlebars are also changed, I don't like that at all because you get a really weird look in some of the apps and also it overrides the nice blur effect that exists in the Modern-UI apps, for example in the photos app (hence it would be nice if that effect as stated in (1) would be included in curtains, if possible. Here's an example of the mail app with/without custom titlebars, as you can see that doesnt really look good. Maybe there should be an option to only override win32 app titlebars if (1) isn't

possible?

 

For number 2, some apps have custom looks on their titlebar.  Some will be ignored by Curtains as they cannot be handled at all, others like mail are able to be overridden but obviously you lose the custom look as you cannot combine them.

But all is not lost.  Go to curtains settings, click the settings cog on the left and you have a button called Pick which universal apps...  Click this and you can either exclude a specific universal application or alter the drop down at the top from applying to more advanced frames to the next option which is apply to custom frames that are simple.  

Doing this will stop it applying to mail.

You can also stop it applying to any universal applications (the new name for modern apps), by unticking the option above the previously mentioned button.