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Trouble with two latest WB 7 updates

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Trouble with two latest WB 7 updates

Black parts appeared

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Both version WB 7.09a beta 116 and WB 7.09a beta 117 are corrupting IE toolbar with black parts:

2 examples of what happen on 1 one "old" skin Omega and 1 recent, Organic

(click on the image, then click on "voir la taille réelle to see the real sized image)

 

 

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.1 (build 87 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Philips 190C (19inch LCD MONITOR 190C7)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X

Wblind.dll      2010/04/22 11:20:20
Wbsrv.dll      2010/02/03 16:11:56
SevenConfig.exe      2010/02/15 14:09:57
Wbload.exe      2010/02/02 14:33:18
Wbhelp.dll      2009/02/10 17:28:07
Wbui.dll      2009/02/10 17:28:05
Tray.dll           2009/10/21 16:13:19
Screen.exe      2009/12/03 13:43:26

But trouble is exactly similar on others PC's (with different graphic cards - in all cases with latest drivers avaible) with XP SP3 (french) + IE7

N.B.1: checking (or unchecking) "Enable if you have corrupted titlebar buttons & text backgrounds" in "XP specific" settings has no influence at all

N.B.2: this trouble doesn't exist with WB 7.09 beta 112 or 113

N.B.3: the black parts are going away when mouse goes on it and / or if window is resized

 

Should be great to fix it because it's a little uggly :S

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 25



Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?


Yes.



Sorry, but not on my machine.
End of DrJBHL's quote

If the UI crashed how did you apply it?

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I am running 32-bit XP, using IE8 and latest WB release (today's) with no issues at all with Venom applied, or Svelte, or any other skin.

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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 27
I am running 32-bit XP, using IE8 and latest WB release (today's) with no issues at all with Venom applied, or Svelte, or any other skin.
End of LightStar's quote

 

Good to know, altho I'll stay with 6 on XP :)

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting SpeciaLKey, reply 28
odd, every time i update WB the SN is lost and i'll have to re activate it...
End of SpeciaLKey's quote

This is odd.  Activation should stick, unless something is changing/removing the sig7.bin.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 26
Quoting DrJBHL, reply 25


Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?


Yes.



Sorry, but not on my machine.


If the UI crashed how did you apply it?
End of Neil's quote

The config wasn't the problem, Neil. What it did to the taskbar was. Initially both ends (of Svelte) were rounded and shoter than the ends of the screen (Svelte should occupy the entire length of the screen). I switched to Aero, and then back to Svelte and 'only' the right end remained rounded and appeared to be superimposed on the square end of taskbar image.

Rolled back to 7.01.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 32



Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 26
Quoting DrJBHL, reply 25


Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?


Yes.



Sorry, but not on my machine.


If the UI crashed how did you apply it?



The config wasn't the problem, Neil. What it did to the taskbar was. Initially both ends (of Svelte) were rounded and shoter than the ends of the screen (Svelte should occupy the entire length of the screen). I switched to Aero, and then back to Svelte and 'only' the right end remained rounded and appeared to be superimposed on the square end of taskbar image.

Rolled back to 7.01.
End of DrJBHL's quote

The only known issue with the Svelte skin was the crashing which the build addressed.

From your description it sounds like the skin failed to load correctly initially and it resulted in corruption of the WB4 files.  Deleting those should have resolved the problem.  Switching back to 7.01 would have made those files rebuilt and so fix the issue.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting neophil78, reply 14



Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 5
Please update to the WB 7.09c build that went up today and see if this helps or not.



1°) Well, for me things are different that for RedneckDude and are giving a nice improvment (not complete as you'll see )

IE 7 toolbars lines are no more blacked but "only" the part which is called (i think) rebargripper

Significant example to see the trouble, is with LK WB (by Duopixart): (but other skins are doing the same)

  (same as in post #1, click on the image, then click on "voir la taille réelle to see the real sized image)

BUT, as the previous "black" trouble was systematic, now the blacked rebargripper are appearing or not when launching IE 7 and N.B.1, N.B.2 & N.B.3 mentionned in post #1 are still relevant .

2°) That was the news for the "black" trouble, BUT i found out another trouble now with StartMenu (which was already existing with both WB 7.09a betas but not with WB 7.09) and relative to the UserIcon image for skins allowing one

Here are two examples of what's going on (first still with LK WB, 2nd with Buuf OS WB:

 &

As far as i could check (but i can be wrong) it seems to me this trouble comes when a UserIcon background image is not defined and / or the margins not correctly set in the skin (but with same skins, UserIcon is correctly displayed with WB 7.09 )

N.B: using or not Blur on Startmenu doesn't change anything

 

Hope you'll get enough elements to correct those troubles

 
End of neophil78's quote

 

Any correcting's update soon ? :-"

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

B U M P

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The issue should be resolved in the next beta update.  If it is not out this week then it will probably show up next week.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for the info Neil

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

Quoting neophil78, reply 14

2°)  BUT (still under XP SP3 - french if any importance - ) i found out another trouble now with StartMenu (which was already existing with both WB 7.09a betas but not with WB 7.09) and relative to the UserIcon image for skins allowing one

Here are two examples of what's going on (first still with LK WB, 2nd with Buuf OS WB):

 &

As far as i could check (but i can be wrong) it seems to me this trouble comes when a UserIcon background image is not defined and / or the margins not correctly set in the skin (but with same skins, UserIcon is correctly displayed with WB 7.09 :D )

N.B: using or not Blur on Startmenu doesn't change anything

 

Hope you'll get enough elements to correct those troubles

End of neophil78's quote

 

This trouble keeps existing exactly the same way and is not corrected with WB v7.09f beta (annoying because i keep using these particular skins and some others in same case ...) :(

 

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

B U M P  (again)

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That specific issue with some skins on XP has been reproduced and should be fixed in the next update.

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks Neil :D