bimplebean

I just flirted with disaster, i.e. flirted with Vista. It was a painful waste of three nights trying to get it up and running on an older PC with sufficient RAM and a new video card. I'm back on XP now and things are humming smoothly. The only thing I miss is Aero, but WindowBlinds 6.2 has solved most of that with a great UI that looks a lot like Vista Aero. The only thing missing is the animation that happens whenever you open a new window. The new window simultaneously fades in from tra

The new 6.2 build has fixed this and is working so well I'm leaving it on! A newer 64-bit PC with a far better graphics card could be a big part of the reason... ;-) Another little bug, tho --- I have my toolbar set to auto-hide, but it does not pop up when I move my mouse to the bottom. I have to hit the windows key to make it appear. A minor annoyance. Loving WindowBlinds!

I am having a display bug when I use Visual Basic 6. I run the program in 'SDI' mode, which means it has a group of toolbars that 'float' on the desktop. There happens to be a hidden parent window that owns/controls them all. When I close my development environment, there are 'dead zones' on the desktop where the VB6 windows used to be. The screen does not update in those areas. I am running at 1600x1200, but sadly my graphics card does not support 32 bit color at this resolution.