Skinning of some menus broken in 5.50.023?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 by Daiwa | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Certain menus, such as the drop-down Open File menu in SKS, are not skinning properly (both background & item mouseover) with the 5.50.023 refresh release; they were skinning fine in 5.50.021. Ordinary menus & the IE Favorites menu still skin normally.
5.50.023:
The mouseover, which I failed to capture here, is just the normal Windows highlight color.
5.50.021:
5.50.023:
The mouseover, which I failed to capture here, is just the normal Windows highlight color.
5.50.021:
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Daiwa
Reply #22 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:06 PM
Reply #22 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:06 PM
Unfortunately, neither unloading WFX nor hiding shadows in the skin has any effect.
Good thought, though.
Something in the tweaks made between 5.50.021 & 5.50.023 has affected these menus (at least here). I still have 5.50.021 running on another rig & the menus are fine.
Good thought, though.
Something in the tweaks made between 5.50.021 & 5.50.023 has affected these menus (at least here). I still have 5.50.021 running on another rig & the menus are fine.
JRSCCivic98
Reply #23 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:02 PM
Reply #23 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:02 PM
Good thing I've made it a habit to check this site before "blindly" trusting the upgrade versions on SDC. I think the ol' Windowblinds 5.5 (not really 5.5) of a month ago helped in the development of that habit... 
Daiwa
Reply #24 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:27 PM
Reply #24 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:27 PM
Apparently not everyone is having this problem. Might work fine for you, JRSCCivic98. Easy enough to roll back if it doesn't. In my case, seems to only affect those menus I've shown in SkinStudio itself and they all still "work", just look funny. Menus everywhere else, including IE favorites, continue to skin normally.
Daiwa
Reply #25 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:11 PM
Reply #25 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:11 PM
I reverted to 5.50.021 and not only do those menus paint correctly again, but MDI buttons and dialog backgrounds paint correctly again, too (mentioned in another thread by I.R. Brainiac). Methinks proof of the law of unintended consequences surfaced in the 5.50.023 update. You know the drill - no good deed goes unpunished. 
JRSCCivic98
Reply #26 Monday, April 2, 2007 11:20 PM
Reply #26 Monday, April 2, 2007 11:20 PM
Guess what? I updated to .023 just for shits and grins and now on shutdown I get an SVCHOST error for unable to read some memory range. Gota love that... How hard is it to make a stable build of WB Stardock!?!?!?!?!
JRSCCivic98
Reply #27 Thursday, April 5, 2007 9:20 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, April 5, 2007 9:20 AM
Just to confirm this... I uninstalled .23 and went back to .21 and it's fine. No more errors. Updated again to .23 and the memory range error on shutdown happens again. Went back to .21 and it's fine. Something wacky is going on with this new version...
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Reply #21 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:24 PM