[lusguz]

Just looking for some help.  This is my first post.  I know nothing.

THE FACTS:

(1) I am running WindowsXP Pro SP3.

(2) I use WindowBlinds v3.41 for the sole purpose of implementing its' "Transparent Explorer Windows" function.  (Note: if you have not used this function, be aware that it is NOT the XP "Transparent Windows" call; instead, the window-frame, buttons, file-list, etc., remain 100% opaque & within the Explorer Window [only] the white pixels are replaced by the pixellation of the wallpaper which would have existed at those coordinates had not an Explorer window been opened; i.e., the effect is one of actually looking through a window at the wallpaper "beyond".  It does NOT do anything to application windows.)

(3) I have installed Corel Wordperfect XP4.




THE PROBLEM:

No version of WordPerfect will run with Windowblinds 3.41.  (WordPerfect is compatible with all versions of WindowBlinds newer than 3.41, but no version of WindowBlinds newer than 3.41 supports "Transparent Explorer Windows".)  Thus an application exclusion (in WindowBlinds 3.41) must be made to open any version of WordPerfect, after which WP will open but, of course, remains unskinned.




THE GOAL: Skin WordPerfect while running WindowBlinds 3.41 (but not necessarily with a WindowBlinds Skin).

ONE SOLUTION: I installed the Windows-7 Transformation Pack, which skins (among other things) all application windows.  I thereafter loaded WindowBlinds 3.41.  To my surprise, when I opened WordPerfect XP4 (for which I had made an application exclusion in WindowBlinds 3.41) I found that WordPerfect retained the new skin applied by the W7 transformation pack.  Unfortunately, I did not particularly like the skin...or the Windows 7 transform pack...so I removed the W7 transform pack.

THE QUESTION: How could I duplicate this outcome with a different visual style?  (I of course tried implementing a visual style, then loading WindowBlinds, with the result that WindowBlinds just replaces the visual style and the WordPerfect window reverts to its' "Windows Classic" skin.)




I realize that the answer to this involves a lot more trouble than its' worth...still, I thought somebody might happen to already know.  If anybody does, please ENLIGHTEN ME.




                                                         Best regards,

                                                         Lusguz 




 

[Patrick Laughner]

In the advanced options of WindowBlinds, you can select programs that will be excluded from it's theme engine.

[lusguz]

Really?

[lusguz]

Now if you can actually apply some visual style, start Windowblinds, and have the visual style remain in effect on WordPerfect, would you please be very damned specific about how to do this...down to the point of which visual style, where you download it, how you apply it, etc.? And would you please give it a try on your own machine.

This post has been edited by Patrick Laughner: 21 February 2010 - 07:04 AM
Reason for edit:: Edited for Slurs

[Eugene C]

lusguz, on 21 February 2010 - 04:20 AM, said:

Now if you can actually apply some visual style, start Windowblinds, and have the visual style remain in effect on WordPerfect, would you please be very damned specific about how to do this...down to the point of which visual style, where you download it, how you apply it, etc.? And would you please give it a try on your own machine.

As far as I know, you can't, seeing as I used to use WB on XP myself, but never ran into these problems since I've never used Corel's crappy programs outside of school.

[lusguz]

Eugene,

The OP is easy to read & understand if you can read & understand English. You'll get better at this as you progress in school.

(Trust me; I did.)

If the problem was easy, I wouldn't have asked.

And have a great day, wherever you are. Thanks for the input. I realize I'm a jerk. This is what will happen to you after forty years of drug use. You have been warned.

[Eugene C]

lusguz, on 21 February 2010 - 05:08 AM, said:

The OP is easy to read & understand if you can read & understand English.  You'll get better at this as you progress in school.

Crappy programs are like fat women: you're going to get ****** by one sooner or later.  But you might like it.  I know I did.  You be my friend.  Corel be my *****.  ***** just need some make-up; you just need to pay attention.

Your wonky spacing is confusing my brain.

And I hate Corel programs so much. I've used them tons of times at school before discovering that the computers had Office on them, hidden away in the Program Files instead of being in the application lists.

[Patrick Laughner]

We try to keep GeekSmack a friendly place for everyone to be in. Many members don't appreciate antics like this. Please keep on topic,

Thanks.

Thread Cleaned.

[lusguz]

Pat, 

Thank you.  I would appreciate your also "cleaning" all the replies to my original post, as they contain zero information pertinent to my question.


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