Compatibility with Clover

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Hey! Is there any chance we could get an update to make WindowFX compatible with Clover 2.0?

 

The problem comes from the way Clover creates explorer processes. If WindowFX tries to animate that window, Clover can no longer properly display it, resulting in a blank frame/tab. Disabling WindowFX or excluding explorer.exe from animations solves the problem, but that also breaks every other animation in the process. Perhaps we could get a simple system that checks to see if clover is installed, and if it is just leave the explorer file windows untouched?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Perhaps we could get a simple system that checks to see if clover is installed, and if it is just leave the explorer file windows untouched?
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From what I can see of that 'clover' link I expect the best you can hope for is.....a simple system that checks to see if clover is installed, and if it is simply aborts the WinFX install process.

WinFX is an Explorer enhancement, not an enhancement for Explorer enhancements...;)

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Right, and it can enhance it as much as it likes, the only issue is that Clover can't hook those explorer windows properly if WindowFX is doing the same. It should have some sort of check for that situation, as there's a lot that could break besides just Clover. We're not talking about disabling WindowFX completely, we're talking about stopping animations on certain types of Windows if a program is installed to fix a major, major bug.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 1/4, reply 2
we're talking about stopping animations on certain types of Windows if a program is installed to fix a major, major bug.
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I assume you aren't infering that WinFX has a 'major, major bug', not when the CORRECT terminology is 'conflict' with some OTHER third party program.

Unless of course you also concede that 'Clover' has a major, major bug in that it clearly interrupts the correct functioning of WinFX....;)

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 try  Tab Explorer and maybe it will not conflict with WindowFX (sorry I don't use WinFX)

anyway the TabExplorer tabs are nicer and colorful and best of all don't look similar to Google Chrome ;)

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Using the default window open animation solves the problem, if anyone runs into this in the future. I would not have reported this bug if it was a Clover only issue. Any application that relies on hooking into an explorer window and displaying it elsewhere or overriding it's positioning is going to do this, and there are many of them.