Oooh, I think that did it! I'll have to test it on my other machine, but now it works great on this one! Thanks! (Oh, Alias just blames Microsoft for writing bad code. That particular bug has been in their code for years now.)
The problem is in Maya 6, 6.5 and 7 in XP. You don't see it unless you turn on compatibility mode for Maya. Otherwise, the Maya window can freeze and turn white while doing some functions with the video card buffers. It's a known problem with XP, which is why Alias always suggests win2k mode.
If I don't exclude it, it skins the app but it is still really slow. When I turn off compatibility mode, it works just as fast as without WB. But unfortunately I have to be in compatibility mode to work, and no matter what I try WindowBlinds doesn't like that. Is there anything else that can be done? Thanks!
I haven't been able to use Windowblinds in a long time because I mainly use Maya on my machine, and they don't work together well at all. Even the most recent version of Maya has to be run in 'compadibility mode' for win2k in order for all of the features to work correctly. But when it is in that mode, Windowblinds slows it down a ton. Starting up takes 10 times as long, and working in any of the windows takes seconds to redraw the s
Thanks guys. I'd try OD Plus for the delay stuff, but I'm not going to buy it because of the lack of speed controls.
I've tried this on several machines that are new and it just moves too fast. I like the way nobody ever has an answer to this. I've tried the Stardock newsgroup and I just get a whole bunch of "You're just doing something wrong" answers, but never "Hey! New features would be nice! I want to have more options, too!"
I keep wanting to like ObjectDock, but I just can't get past how poorly it moves. I have a 3.2 ghz machine, and it makes OD unusable. Whenever my mouse gets close to the dock, it pops out in a single frame and then pops off right away. I've tried setting the animation to slow and smoother, but it still goes WAAAAAY too fast. Why can't I put my own animation speed in as a value and not a choice of 3 presets? I want it moving like 20 times slower. Now it's just clunky and ugly.<
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