Photoshop Window Resizing Problem (WB 5.01l beta)

Monday, August 28, 2006 by CaveBear | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I updated to WB 5.01l beta and if I remember correctly, didn't have this annoying Photoshop window resizing problem with the previous beta. To reproduce this issue, do the following:

  1. Open Photoshop
  2. Click on the File menu on the top menu bar

You should see the Photoshop window resize itself.

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 and Photoshop CS2 (9.0.2)


Thanks.


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WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Wblind.dll         2006/08/23 17:13:20
Wbsrv.dll         2006/08/23 17:18:30
Wbconfig.exe         2006/08/19 14:24:16
Wbload.exe         2006/03/13 17:54:12
Wbhelp.dll         2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll         2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll         2006/04/13 17:29:04
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jennybean
Reply #1 Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:37 PM
Hello CaveBear,

I will pass this on to technical support and they will get back wiht you as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Jenny

milksama
Reply #2 Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:49 PM

CaveBear: We're unable to reproduce the problem here. What version are your video drivers and what skin do you currently have applied?

-Mike
[Stardock Support]


CaveBear
Reply #3 Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:54 AM
Mike,

Video drivers are Nvidia ForceWare 91.31 and the skin I'm using is my own (Blue Lagoon), which is available here on WC. However, I applied another skin I had downloaded (Royale Vista) and instead of the Photoshop window resizing, the window titlebar "unskins" itself! There are definitely some weird things going on between Photoshop and WindowBlinds...


Thanks for looking into this.

Third Eye
Reply #4 Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:26 AM
I have also had the window title bar unskin it's self. This normally happens when I click on the menu bar. It will unskin it's self and then reskin after I make a selection such as file -> open. This started to happen when I loaded WB .016.


PurrBall
Reply #5 Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:37 AM
I'm having the same problem as CaveBear, but I am unsure to wether it is WB or WFX.

boss0190
Reply #6 Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:53 AM
Yeah, same PS "unskinning" for a second here also.

RoamingGnome
Reply #7 Friday, September 1, 2006 4:01 PM
Got same ( similar ) problem with Corel 12 under similar conditions (and only Corel tha I've noticed). The window will just be resizing or unskinning itself upon opening various dlg boxes. WB latest build (016), no WFX. Was definitely not happening with build 014 (skipped 015). NV 91.31 FW drivers. XP-PRO-SP2.

EDIT:
Just restored build 014. Things are back to normal now.

Medonja
Reply #8 Wednesday, September 6, 2006 8:32 AM
Having same problem with PS CS2

Details:

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(Dell 2405FPW (Digital)) 1 is attached to RADEON X850 Series
(BenQ FP937s) 2 is attached to RADEON X850 Series - Secondary

Wblind.dll 2006/08/23 17:13:20
Wbsrv.dll 2006/08/23 17:18:30
Wbconfig.exe 2006/08/19 14:24:16
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:12
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 20:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/13 17:29:04


Video card is ATI Radeon and it started only with WB 5.0. Previous version were OK!


rrawlins
Reply #9 Wednesday, September 6, 2006 12:08 PM
I have 9.01 and I could not reproduce the problem. I have different issue. The first time I click on the menu, the window renders like Window Classic. Deactivating, then activating the window makes it translucent.

nhgrafx
Reply #10 Monday, September 11, 2006 7:48 PM
I too have the same prroblem with Photoshop CS2 along with another little annoyance. My photoshop windows (as in the images I have open) flicker everytime a tool is selected in photoshop or a menu accessed, layer selected, etc, and is really pronounced with multiple images open. It was really annoying one of my graphic design clients who was looking over my shoulder at the work I was doing and somtimes can be a bit distracting to me. My other adobe programs (Acrobat 7 pro, Illustrator CS2, and In Design CS2) do not do this. An obvious fix to this is to add photoshop as a program for windowblinds to not skin, but that would be ugly.

PoSmedley
Reply #11 Monday, September 11, 2006 8:38 PM
I too have the same prroblem with Photoshop CS2


My photoshop window will not stay in the size I set it, even when maxed. It just shrinks as I work and I have to keep maxing it.


retiredmaster
Reply #12 Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:10 AM
Ah - looks like I'm having the same problem here - Photoshop CS2 seems to start resizing the main Photoshop window itself! As you continue to open files, the main window slowly gets smaller and smaller until only the menu is showing. it does this whether the main window is maxed or not.

I also have the flickering windows and temperamental title bars - I think it's possibly just on per-pix skins?

Maybe it's back to CS1 for now...

(Glad it's not just me then!)

Scheer
Reply #13 Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:07 PM
Hello

I do have the same problem here, too, with both softwares:
CorelDRAW X3 and Photoshop CS9 v9.02.

Also, if I open, say like, 15 pictures in Photohop, the computer goes crazy... it takes forever with each file to load, and without WB5 it comes back to normal.

The problem is ONLY with WB5, not WindowFX (wich I've given up for now).

And more: If I choose to unload WB to work with Photoshop and/or Corel X3, my antivirus software (Kaspersky 6) locks up! But that is easy to solve: I just exit Kaspersky, unload WB5, restart Kaspersky and then Photoshop and Corel work fine.

I use Windows XP x64 and the latest ATI Catalyst Driver, in my Radeon x200.
HP Pavillion zv6000
Athlon 64 3500+
1Ghz RAM

If anyone can solve our problem, we would appreciate.

KirkDickinson
Reply #14 Friday, September 15, 2006 1:27 AM
I can verify that the Photoshop window keeps getting smaller and smaller as you open new documents.

I never noticed it before because I use Photoshop with it rolled all the way up to the top and leave the documents as windows on the desktop. CS2 only requires that documents be in the Photoshop window if it is maximized or minimized, otherwise you can drag it anywhere you wish.

The thing that I really dislike is that with several photo windows open on the desktop, every time I do something, every single photoshop window redraws in a strange ripple motion. However this only happens on my new fast SLI graphics computer. The old computer with the old graphics card that can't do all the features in the Argos skin, so it doesn't do the strange ripple.

Kirk

nhgrafx
Reply #15 Friday, September 15, 2006 1:41 PM
Very strange problem. Mine just has flickering document windows and occasional title bar unskinning itself for a moment in PS CS2. I have never had the windows resize themselves.

I have done some troubleshooting and found it only does this on certain skins. Of the skins I have that do it are the Jemaho Vista skin, novun skin, and several others that have transparancy effects on them and such. The only one I have that doesnt do it is the mac os panther skin and a few older ones.

I am thinking it might partly be a hardware issue, since different computers are having different things happen. The computer I use it on is a dell notebook with dual core 2ghz cpu, 2gb ddr2 667mhz ram, and intel gma950 integrated graphics with 254mb max of shared memory. I havent tried it on any of my other computers, I am not sure it would work though with only a single user license for object desktop.

I am sure it will be resolved eventually, afterall it is a beta version of WB.

KirkDickinson
Reply #16 Friday, September 15, 2006 2:36 PM
The Photoshop ripple flicker that was happening with the Argos Skin doesn't happen with any of the other skins that I have tried. Running Cyberskin right now and no weird behaviours except for the window resize. With that skin it is VERY pronounced. When you open a file, then minimize its' window, it stacks the minimized window icons on top of each other and pulls the bottom of the window up each time to the bottom of the most recently minimized icon.

Actually, it pulls up the bottom of the window to cover the most recently minimized icon at the time that the new file is opened. Your attention is focused on the file/open menu, so you don't notice it easily.

Kirk

nhgrafx
Reply #17 Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:12 PM
I get simmilar photoshop cs2 behavior when running it on my windows vista ultimate RC1 installation on my other hard drive, which I am currently using. I am not using any version of window blinds on this installation either. When I maximize the window and click the file menu to open a file, it changes from the aero skin to the classic skin for computers not capable of running aero. It also causes the window to resize briefly, almost exactly what I get using windowblinds on my other hard drive with XP MCE.

Vista uses a lot of the cool new features wb5 has implemented for XP, so I am thinking Photoshop is at fault because its might not be fully compatbile with these new visual features. I could be wrong, but it seems to make sense.

nhgrafx
Reply #18 Friday, September 22, 2006 10:03 PM
Problem is fixed with the new update released today.  

Medonja
Reply #19 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:03 AM
Yep, the problem has gone!


MobyKain
Reply #20 Friday, September 29, 2006 12:14 AM
I still get Internet Explorer resizing every time I load it.

Have the latest drivers installed for Nvidia and IE refuses to stay in one spot.

Anyone else getting this problem?

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