WindowBlinds Borders

Friday, March 17, 2006 by Jey_son | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I have transparent borders applied but when the window is maximized it hides from view. It sinks in the edges of my screen. How can i prevent it from disappearing on maximized view?
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Cumik
Reply #1 Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:08 AM
I have the same problem too. And close, min etc. buttons are not visible
Keikonium
Reply #2 Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:29 AM
Hmm, I thought that was how the skins were made . I have only had a problem with the close/min/max buttons being half gone; and only on some skins. Mainly Vista clones.

It would be nice if the boarders would show up. Hopefully it isn't a bug in WB5
Neil Banfield
Reply #3 Saturday, March 18, 2006 12:16 PM

On skins which have per pixel borders, the borders will not appear when the window is maximized.  This is identical to what happens with Windows Classic.

The titlebar remains visible and can have per pixel depending on the skin authors choices.

Bichur
Reply #4 Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:05 PM
yepper.
but if you use WindowFX you can set the 'maximize size' of you windows so that they stop short of fully maximizing the transparency out. you'll just have to play with the number until you get to your liking.
Brillo2
Reply #5 Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:12 PM

Well, I've noticed ever since the last update of WB5 my GT3 OS borders are off a tad too.  The taskbar doesn't fully extend to the far right of the screen.  It stops about 1/16th of an inch short... enough to actually see the wallpaper behind it.  And, when maximized, the tops of the title bars are clipped... even on my second monitor. 


Everything was just fine until the last update of WB5.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #6 Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:58 PM
Rebooting should fix the window frames opening larger than the screen when maximized.
Brillo2
Reply #7 Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:07 PM


Nope

Brillo2
Reply #8 Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:11 AM
Uh... what the heck was that???  Is this guy saying all components of Runtime need to be updated for WB5 to operate properly?
BIODIGITZMAN
Reply #9 Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:11 PM
YOU SINGLE EKIVOKES JAJAJ I DO NOT SAY THAT BETTER JEJEJ WORKED TO YOU YOU I ASSURE IT!
Jafo
Reply #10 Sunday, March 19, 2006 7:51 PM
Citizen BIODIGITZMAN
I think it would be best to leave Windowblinds assistance to people like Neil Banfield....as he wrote the program.  Assistance is only as good as the 'qualifications' of the assistant....
Daiwa
Reply #11 Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:06 PM
Screen edge clip settings are having no effect with the latest beta, even with non-perpixel borders. Rolling back to the immediately prior beta, which was respecting screen edge clip settings for non-perpixel borders, fixed the problem (perpixel borders are a different animal).
Neil Banfield
Reply #12 Monday, March 20, 2006 6:04 AM
Daiwa: thanks for reporting that.  It seems a minor tweak caused that to stop working correctly.
BIODIGITZMAN
Reply #13 Monday, March 20, 2006 8:28 AM
jajajjaj if if neil escribio the program but I have installed it 300 different times in 50 Windows jajj this very well jej good work ejje
Bichur
Reply #14 Monday, March 20, 2006 9:05 AM
but I have installed it 300 different times in 50 Windows

you mean you had to install it 6 times on each one to get it right?
1nsomn1ac
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:37 AM
Cavan1
Reply #16 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:44 AM
you mean you had to install it 6 times on each one to get it right?




Maybe 300 times in 50 Windows due to blowing the first 49 Windows up

Jey_son
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:17 AM
Finally found the solution. The problem was not in WB but in the settings of the ini file itself (which i found out editing the skin in Skin Studio pro). Better use Skin Studio for this... Under the explorer bar, Click window borders, the settings will appear on the right side (section window). Find screen edge clip attribute (there are 4 namely top,bottom,left and right) and change their value to 0(zero). Save and there you have it, the transparent borders will now be visible in maximized view.
Brillo2
Reply #18 Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:56 AM
Excellent!  Thank you.
Brillo2
Reply #19 Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:39 PM

Ooops... spoke too soon...


I just tried editing the borders in SkinStudio Pro as per Jey_son's instructions (above).  It no worky.  Changing the value(s) to 0 does not fix the maximized border clipping problem.  Bummer.

Brillo2
Reply #20 Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:29 PM

Screen edge clip settings are having no effect with the latest beta, even with non-perpixel borders. Rolling back to the immediately prior beta, which was respecting screen edge clip settings for non-perpixel borders, fixed the problem (perpixel borders are a different animal).


Okay, I'm not quite understanding what was said here, but I think what he's saying in his own (programmer/tester) way is that... yes, there is a problem with the lastest beta, but rolling back to the previous beta solves the problem.  So, it's an easy fix for the next beta coming shortly.


Then Neil responded with... "Daiwa: thanks for reporting that.  It seems a minor tweak caused that to stop working correctly."


Am I right... or what?

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