Need some serious testing help!

Published on May 14, 2008 By voidcore In Skinning

Well.. thing is i have a blind not going thru mod.. and reason is i quote:

"Some menus are unusable due to 1) black text on black background in menus.? 2) right margin on some menus not set so text is off the menu 3) black text against a black background in some drop down boxes.?"

But i dont have these problems! anywhere, i need some people to help me get this sorted so i wondering if anyone is willing to test this and find this problem so i can correct it and so the blind can go thru mod.

Here are some menus sry for the link (img not working right)

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9583/menusaw7.jpg

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Comments (Page 1)

DorkCoffeez

on May 14, 2008

What version of Skin Studio and WindowBlinds are you using? Also be sure to check video drivers on your machine considering the sensitivity of many skins to those file types.

Now what I am suggesting is an error in the skin not a visual problem. I did find myself squinting at the text in a few places on that screen shot. I would suggest the use of a brighter color, font highlight, background gradient, something to bring out the text. That is just my personal thought on the matter though.

mimiibelle

on May 14, 2008

Would love to help.check your PMs!

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

Using WB 6.0, Skinstudio 6.00 Free, Nvidia Forceware 169.21 on a 8800 GTS, Samsung Syncmaster 245B with drivers magic color OFF, sRGB colorprofile i PS.....

Im wondering if ppl dont have high contrast on their screens i know there's a prob with lcd showing black and viewangles.. can it be that??

PuterDudeJim

on May 14, 2008

I will test it for you. PuterDudeJim@aol.com

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

its sent to both of you give me some feedback here

DorkCoffeez

on May 14, 2008

Possible but I looked at it on 3 monitors and saw roughly the same thing. See what your testers say. If you think it is a technical issue after they try it out let me know and I will be happy to assist you.

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

Alright Seabass, thanks for your time. And also if you want a copy pm me a mailaddress

Wizard1956

on May 14, 2008

I may be the last person on the planet with a CRT -17"@1028x764 The dark text in the shaded(darker on rh side) gets hard to see but not impossible but red doesn't stand out well and appears slightly blurred or out of focus. The submenus and explorer red text in dark boxes, my "old" eyes can hardly make out.The rest(buttons,titlebar,etc.) looks really good,imo.

Vampothika

on May 14, 2008

Voidcore, when i pointed out yr font problems, (after I took the time to download your skin and try to help you in your vista quest) you told me to make sure my font was aliased, and that it wasnt your skin's problem....... and basically ignored what i was telling you..... if you seek help you need to listen (especially people who are more experienced in skinning than you) and learn from them.....

im not trying to be mean, point fingers or insult you....im just trying to gently tell you the facts.

Vampothika

on May 14, 2008

dark (black) skins are not the easiest to conquer......but they can be done, ive have done a few quite sucessfully.....perhaps less black in yr menus and rebars and menu bars ect will probably help you, but you must look at your font issue...cause that is holding you back.

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

hi there kitty .. wasnt that the shadow issue?.. thats taken care off.
Wizard1956 sorry the uploaded pic is just blurry the image upload service i used downed the quality of the screenshot the red text is crisp and clear. ill make an upload somewhere else.

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

new screenshot up..

Wizard1956

on May 14, 2008

I had no problem reading the dark sections or even the titlebar,just the red text in the smaller menus and boxes.

ive have done a few quite sucessfully.....perhaps less black in yr menus and rebars and menu bars

Some good advice from someone who knows how to make Dark and Red work.

I'll take another look,though [EDIT]: The red does look crisper,don't know how it would hold up to all day use though.Still that shadow thing,but it may be me, me eyes aren't that good anymore,I need a bigger monitor,for sure.I don't skin so I don't wish to sound critical,just an observation.

voidcore

on May 14, 2008

haha mabye thats it im on a 24" 1920x1200 monitor

...the grey text that is option's is supposed to be almost non visible as it is option you cant use or select/click in the menus? designed that way, is that the problem here?.... or?

PuterDudeJim

on May 15, 2008

Well, this is just my opinion. I have never made a blind, tried a few times, daunting to me. But as a user, I see no problems with this blind. I like it. I use a 26" HiDef LCD TV as my monitor. It all looks good to me. I have seen a lot worse blinds over the years. As far as colors are concerned, I would think that would be a matter of preference. To me it seems very usable, everything seems to work as it should. Once again, I have seen, recently, some really ugly blinds go thruogh (my opinion, of course). This one seem pretty good to me.

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