I'm using WB6 with vista ultimate. Up until a few weeks ago the firefox nightly builds worked fine with WB6. But something has changed because when running the latest ones, such as firefox-3.0a8pre, when I right click on the browser or press on the top menu items, file, edit, view, etc., all that appears is a large blank area, with little scroll buttons at the center top and bottom edges.

Excluding firefox-3 from WB6 clears up the problem and firefox runs fine. I know, it's a beta on a beta, and weird stuff should be expected. Other than that, WB6 is great.

Same problem with latest build >

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Arfffff!!

Hello,

I'm going to report and then kind of abandon a possible bug with the latest WB6 beta - release v5.91[b].038. I have another issue I am trying to resolve Startup questions - copying files and splash screen . Looking up this WB6 one right now will simply distract me. (Yes, only my computer can multi-task!)

I'm a current ODNT subscriber, with all products up to date. I'm running WB6, OB and OD+ with the Liquidox premium skin suite. The suite is pretty much installed across the board (font, icons, etc). I'm running WinXP (Windows Update is current) on an AMD 64 x2, with two nVidia 7900 GT in SLI. I believe my video drivers are up to date.

Anyway, the problem is this...

I've had some minor annoyances with the file copying and splash screen. In trying to resolve that issue I thought it might be related to the WB6 beta. So I used SDC to uninstall WB6 (latest version), rebooted, installed WB5 (latest version) from archive. Since this did not resolve my issue, I removed 5, rebooted and went back to 6.

At this point, as per normal, WB6 opened the configuration window to allow me to set up the "newly installed" program. I retained my previous Liquidox state, but since I had played with the new config screens a bit, I made sure they basically were in their previous (default) state and clicked Apply my Changes button (Configure>Look & Feel>Visual Styles). The desktop blurred out and when it came back I lost the standard window elements of the Config screen.

Everything else appeared fine. But on the Configure screen itself I had no titlebar, close box, border, etc. The scroll bar at the bottom (for the skin previews) was still present and I believe it still worked. These elements were not invisible. I could not drag or close the window by approximating their position. Nothing happened. My mouse events were (I assume) falling through to the desktop.

Clicking on the Apply my Changes button for a 2nd time, these elements re-appeared and operated normally.

Sabardeyn
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Just updated to 5.91[b].038, the new config looks great but I have white text on a background where gradient goes to white, on settings pages, sys info and about, most of the text is unreadable.

Same here

Were you running wbconfig with the black UI option previously?

The updated Molten is excellent

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Sorry about not responding earlier but I wanted a chance to test all my skins and got busy at the office before I could. I found that all my skins show this problem. I assume since I'm the only one seeing it it's some other program I'm running on both my systems.

I use several explorer plug-ins and I'm thinking one of them is probably the culprit. Plug-ins: Styler Toolbar, QTTab Bar, Folder Size, Folder Box, Wildcard Select. A while back I was also using Windowpaper but I was seeing some strange results such as filenames not displayed in thumbnail view so I uninstalled it. I still have a couple customized folders showing the effects of it though.

I've gone to using "Classic Folders" since I rarely used any of the "Common Tasks"

Not sure why this is still being missed, but the latest 5.91 beta just released still has this problem. It was a problem in 5.5 and fixed in the last release of 5.51, so hopefully someone will see this and fix it in WB6.

Here is the link to the WB5 thread about it https://forums.wincustomize.com/?forumid=167&aid=153447 You will see that Neil Banfield posted it was reproduced and fixed.

Hmm, yes.

From the new wbconfig window not see language settings option

Is there a way to copy all the data from system information to the clipboard with a button in the config?  Make it easier for folks to post it here at WC?

Same here...seems to hang almost everytime.

Hey just wanted to add, that the latest build (5.91.038 for me) is looking gooooood! The molten theme seems to have the few things fixed from before. Now I'll just have to try and see if it still hangs up when I try and change my desktop picture. Now that there IS a picture with the Molten WB, there really isn't a need to.

I just wanted to give some compliments on a job well done before I start messing around with it and forget.

Again, it looks like WB6 is coming along nicely, and I must say that my new WB is going to be Molten for awhile, it looks really sharp (except the mouseover on the All Programs under XP, but that's a minor thing).

Yep; rolled back to last beta, turn off black UI, updated to current again, now have black text. Thanks Neil.

Downloaded the new version and I am loving it.

I really like the new WB Config interface.

If you install on a system that doesn't have WB already installed - there is no reboot required - nice.

Great job all.

WB6 is very awesome and I like it very much.  The Latest WB6 Beta with Diamond theme will shine the button. But this effect is wrong with the tool buttons of Adobe Flash and Illustrator CS3. It will overfill the buttons with shining tetragon.

Like this :


And WB6 does not show correctly in Windows Titlebars which uses Unicode characters.

Is there anything that can be done about this? It happens on a lot of skins...you can't see any of the text in the WB Config screen.

WebGizmos: That is normal.  The config options are no longer part of the preview.  They are on the left of the preview.

Hi Neil,can you please confirm that the problem in this ( WWW Link ) thread is being looked into.Sorry I may have posted it in the wrong place.  I'm not demanding an immediate fix or anything like that,just confirmation that a fix is in the pipeline.  
At some point I would like to be able to use all of the features on my new pc. but am prevented from doing so if WindowBlinds is installed because of a conflict between vista/windowblinds and the remote sensor (usb) for my media centre remote.
Thanks

Doh! Ok gotcha...my bad...thanks!

Great work on the new beta - seems even lighter on my resources

Ruben

bobbyhundreds: We are looking into that.

Anyone else experience WB6 killing DWM on Vista after restarting?

It happens randomly to me in that the DWM service doesn't start after a week or so of having WB6 installed. I have to uninstall WB6 completely to make the automatic service start actually work.

I can then reinstall and all works fine for a while, then for no reason, DWM doesn't start and I lose transparency. Physically starting the service works, but next reboot it will be closed down again. Auto start is enabled as is recovery.

Thanks Neil.  

Ok guys... here's my issue:

Love the new interface in the update today (Thurs, Aug 30) but the text is all white, and the background image/gradient is a baby blue to white fade.

This means that I cannot see but about the first 4-6 rows of text... anything below that is gone.

HELP! lol

- DrakeSteele