Agh. Something is wrong then - a few versions ago (v16.6) I made sure that the Winstep GUI was compatible with WB:

It's also true then from then to now I also made some changes to add support for Windows 10 Dark Mode, etc, but I am not aware of doing this breaking compatibility with WB themes (at least nobody complained). I also looked at the code and see no obvious reason for such a thing to happen.

This is hard for me to double check because I don't run WB and therefore don't have it installed here.

What are WB + Winstep users seeing? The same as Ross?

Also, a preview of new features in the next release:

Due to popular request, icons can now be centered or right justified in Shelves (tabbed docks).

Icons in docks, Shelves, etc, can now be colorized using one of three different methods (Tint, Hue or Tone). Tint is the most useful method for icon colorization, unless the icons are black, in which case you should use Tone.

No Colorization:

 Tint:

 Hue:

 Tone:

Grayscale:

 

Same as Ross

Hankers, and does that apply to Preferences as a whole or just to that particular dialog? As you can see from the screenshots I posted above, it was working fine at some point.

As a whole for me.

Could you please ask Neil if he has any idea why

BackgroundColor = GetSysColor(5) ' COLOR_WINDOW

would not work?

Anyway, going to install WB on a Windows 10 VM to get to the bottom of this.

I don't have any special access to Neil. Best to either PM or make a post with Neil in the title so he sees it.

Err... I don't get it.

I installed WB on a Windows 10 VM, selected a different style, clicked on Change System Colours and changed System Colour: Window to yellow (because all the default styles that ship with WB apparently use the same white background color), run Xtreme and it worked, even the Item Properties dialog is properly showing yellow as the background color.

Unless some WB themes do not rely on changing the system colors...?

What WB theme is Ross using?

Also, applied the Echo theme (apparently the only theme shipping with WB where the window background color is not pure white) and the dialog windows in Xtreme assumed the new (correct) background color. So, no idea why it isn't working there?

Ross is using Forge WindowBlind.

Changing the System Color: Window to a different color works but even WB's that have a light and dark setting show as white background in the Preferences settings.

Should be a way for the color change the Preferences background color to the selected sub-style of the WindowBlind.

Which is a Master skin, so I can't do a quick test. Sigh.

Oh, I think I understand. In the screenshot for Forge I see you can have either a white or a brownish window background. Guess the latter would be a sub-style, no?

But then, why wouldn't GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW) return the correct color for the currently selected sub-style? Should be automatic.

Looks like I need to send Neil a PM.

Thanks, Hankers.

wow.   what i done?

Tab and dock properties dialogues

Well, the white in those Winstep dialogs should be brown like in the File Explorer window at the left, and I don't know why it isn't. Sent a PM to Neil, maybe he will be able to shed some light on this.

Forge has the Window syscolor set @ white (255/255/255) and is using different color definitions for the Explorer windows.  If Ross opens a text file in notepad its background will be white.  This is pretty common (these days?).  Up to you which you want to match, but they will often be different.

Now that I think about it, I believe the Explorer background on Win7 and Win8 is actually an image, not a defined color, and on Win10 it's a separately defined color.  I'd think it would be tough to chase an image color...

Here you go Jorge:

Win7/8:

Win10:

Just to add to the confusion, if any of the above Explorer-specific options (image or colors) aren't defined the the window syscolor is used.

Did you make those changes in Skinstudio? I ask since I don't use it its not installed/

No changes there, that's how it comes.  I'm hoping to show Jorge what's going on.  White window syscolor and different Explorer background colors.  I'd say Winstep is working as intended, using the window syscolor instead of trying to chase the Explorer images or colors (but that's up to him).

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation, Dave. After reading that I would say the same, Winstep is working as intended.

I would guess that's why nobody complained.   

There's a pretty long list of people who've been faked out by the "Window color vs Explorer color" syndrome.  

This is amazing.

Jim, pretty sure you know this already, but the GUI using the built-in Dark Mode does not get skinned by WB, for that to happen you need to set it to 'Standard User Interface' . That is by design.