Curtains Betas

Owned by Paul Scroggins (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Feb 27, 2023 by Sean Drohan
3 min read

Beta 6

  • Compatibility with Groupy

  • Fixed issue that could have had Windows Explorer crashing upon reboot with a Curtains Style applied

  • Multiple improvements to editing UI

  • Fixes an issue with picking a custom color on the colors page not using the secondary or third color as a default when on those pages

  • Fixes the new Glyph.RestoreButton and Glyph.MinButton so they work correctly with normal apps

  • Fixed issue with text alignment when using a Progressive Web App and a style that does not define titlebar sections

  • Fixed an issue with Progressive Web apps where the back button would not respond to touch input reliably.

  • The editor is now aware of frame counts in groupy parts and new groupy parts in advanced

  • New buttons tab in the editor. This intentionally does not include the more obscure parts.

Beta 5

  • Support for the new options in the UI to force styles on or off a universal app

  • A prompt on editing a style to edit a copy

  • Support for recoloring titlebar text, shadow text and text backgrounds

  • Added non-dpi specific versions of close, max, min, restore, help

  • TaskbarX issue on the secondary taskbar fixed

  • Fluent Graphite style added

Beta 4

  • XP Luna style added

  • Fixes an issue with a crash if you had OpenShell installed and the timing was just wrong when things started up

  • Should fix a crash when using Button.Background section and the other newer sections added in beta 3

  • Adds in the system tray icon option. This will only show if Curtains is applying a style or has been at some point, otherwise, it will not show as curtains will not be running the code required for this

  • Fixed things so you can now make custom shadows or apply custom text settings without needing to define a titlebar image

  • Defaults to no shadow on titlebar text for new styles now

  • Online tab adds 'Most recent' option under the filter

  • Fixed an issue with start10 text colors only applying if you defined an image for a given section

Beta 3

  • The online tab filters option now does not incorrectly switch to all if you click away from it

  • The online tab filter is now in bold to make it more obvious

  • The online tab list now shows the blurb on mouseover complete with animation

  • Animations on the online tab are now smoother

  • When text shows on mouseover, on the online items, it now caps it to an exact number of lines so you don't get part lines showing

  • If you download a style, apply it and then click edit, you previously had bits from the previous style being edited. This is now fixed.

  • List now shows a better mini preview

  • Online tab now shows fewer items but looks better

  • Fixed clear custom preview button not working

  • Should better reset your previous light/dark choices when switching between styles rather than sticking with the last values set by a style

  • Fixed an issue with tile sometimes losing the right/bottom borders

  • UI tweaked with some gradients in places

  • UI adds an option for applying styles to compatible Universal apps (UWP) but this is nonfunctional currently as noted in the UI

  • Advanced properties now lets you enter hex colors and fixes the missing more button on some colours

  • Scrollbars in-app now smoothly move and have a downstate to make them more obvious to use

  • Advanced editing page combo box now is limited in size to stop it showing above the combo box on some machines

  • Online tab now defaults to featured and sorts other categories by rating

Beta 2

  • On app load, on switch of user-editable color section on the styles page, it caused a system-wide theme refresh which was effecting performance on lower-end machines. This no longer happens as it was unintentional.

  • Support for custom list preview

  • Addition of 'create new' link in UI

  • Progressive Web Apps (PWA) running under chromium will now have back buttons again

  • Colors page tweaked a bit

  • Editor tweaked to have editing margins UI and advanced properties page exposing a number of extra properties

  • Added Button.Background, Button.InactiveBackground, Button.CloseBackground and Button.InactiveCloseBackground sections to save effort when replacing the titlebar button backgrounds

  • Fixed issue with titlebar button images adding extra edge line

  • Clicking the preview on the online tab opens a bigger preview

  • Fixed an issue with inactive min button background not painting correctly in some styles

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