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Re: Very strange issue with WindowBlinds [message #13657 is a reply to message #13654]

Sat, 19 January 2008 14:53

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Screenshot? Have you tried latest sources? A lot of effort went into this over recent weeks.

I can post a screenshot, but it seems there are huge differences between Vista and XP. I have only XP home, so you'll have to wait till Monday for Vista screenshot. Under Vista, the cursor of menus is drawn correctly, but the rest of the menu looks strange. Under XP the menu looks normal, only the cursor is not skined, but changes color.

This is in 712-dev1:

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Any way how to try this?

Sure! Google WindowBlinds, download evaluation version.

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Using this skin, all U++ applications lock up after a time, except the IDE. You can load up any app, and after playing a lot with the interface and especially dragging other windows on top of the U++ application freezes it. I noticed that if you put your cursor over the window border buttons, the are not animated, like in other apps, and almost inevitably freeze the application again. Also, windows have text which is not visible when window is focused. And the strangest part is, TheIDE is immune to these issues. Window caption is present and buttons are animated. Does U++ touch window drawing. Does TheIDE have some extra code for it's windows?

Again, on my home XP, this issue does not appear.

In the end, you must decide how far do you go with skining. A lot of cross platform or not win32 native apps have poor support in this area.

I'll post some other screenshots, but I can only put one per post (could you increase this to 3 or something?)

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