WB 7 Tasbkar button bug.
Oh Neil...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by vStyler | Discussion: Object Desktop
When used with text showing... the taskbar buttons display incorrect text color sporadically.
Example, a skin like Corporate that has black selected \active buttons with white text... the fonts show incorrectly as dark instead of white over the button, rendering it almost invisible.
It doesnt happen on all buttons and it doesnt happen all the time, its rather intermittent, however, it makes skins with this type of button color\ text color config virtually unusable.
You may have to use a skin fror a while, open diff apps etc to get it to do it.. or... it may do it immediately after one apply.
It is also showing light text on states that should be dark.. like its completely confused.
Major bug imo.
I have verified it with other skinners on diff. systems and skins.
Cheers.
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Reply #3 Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:50 PM
I've not noticed that since I always use the 'Always combine, Hide Titles' option.
Reply #4 Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:53 PM
Is that like the 3rd item in your taskbar? It seems to only happen when you have more than 2 items. It's grabbing the normal state text color instead of the mousover color.
Reply #5 Thursday, March 4, 2010 9:05 PM
Ive had it happen on all taskbar items all accross the taskbar. and ive also had most states screw up in one form or fashion too.
Ive had selected buttons with wong text, mouse overs and default.
unfortunately, I can't seem to discern any ryhme or reason to it.
Oh Neil..... 
Reply #13 Sunday, March 7, 2010 4:41 PM
..as serious a bug as this is, some kind of response would be appreciated, it is rendering some 7 themes (and there ain't that many to begin with) completely unusable, while showing the text on taskbuttons.
BUMP
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:27 PM
Bebi Bulma runs naked through the forums trying to get Neil's attention
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:09 PM
That kind of naked running is why the forum database got corrupted! The poor server just couldn't cope with what it saw.
The problem is the OS supports just one text colour on the taskbar buttons and so WB has to add the others in and apparently something isn't working quite right in all cases.
I am tied up this week, but I should get some time next week to look into this and the other reported WB skinning issues.
Reply #19 Monday, March 22, 2010 3:51 PM
any word on this, sorta hard to move forward with new themes until I know what will be possible regarding taskbutton colors.
..and its not just me, this affects all skins while using uncombined buttons.
Its hard to be creative when you have to have each state the same color. 
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:01 PM
This should be fixed or at least much improved in the next update.
BTW if you ever got the wrong text on a button then that isn't a WB issue, thats an OS issue. I have found the Windows 7 taskbar to be a little unreliable at times though usually its the wrong icon on a taskbar button.
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Reply #1 Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:35 PM
I noticed that too with Corporate. It seemed to only happen with my Firefox taskbar button.