Crashes on Win8 & MS Surface Pro

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I had to uninstall ModernMix 1.10 from my MS Surface Pro tablet, because, apart from annoying display & framing problems when changing orientation, it kept crashing, and when it crashes, it takes the app with it. 

This is unfortunate, because, as a table/notebook crossover, the ModernMix should be ideally suited to it, but it's just too buggy to use.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

When is it crashing?

And what does the crash message say exactly?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

It's hard to say - sometimes when I click on an open app, or switch to it, it's just totally unresponsive - I can't even close it. When I open TaskManager to close the app, I see the app nested inside MM, and TaskManager tells me MM is unresponsive. I don't see any messages, the app just locks up.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I believe we have reproduced something similar and hopefully we can get that fixed next week.

What issues were you having with changing orientation?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Good news about the lockups!

As far as orientation goes, the sizing of the main frame was inconsistent, for example, rotating an almost full screen window (not full-screen) from vertical to horizontal would often result in a very small window instead of one proportionally sized.

The most annoying thing was that the app content would often occupy a much smaller area than the window frame, and required a resize action (which is quite awkward in touch tablet mode, when you don't have a mouse or pen) before it would fill its frame. Occasionally, the app content would flicker repeatedly as it filled its frame, as if multiple sizing events were being handled.

As an ex Windows software developer myself, I've seen these sorts of problems before - Windows event handling can be tricky when trying to keep nested frame sizing synchronized.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

As it happens, now MM is uninstalled, I'm noticing that window sizing isn't very well handled on orientation change on the Surface Pro (probably a Windows 8 'feature')...