Trouble with two latest WB 7 updates
Black parts appeared
Friday, April 23, 2010 by neophil78 | Discussion: Object Desktop
Both version WB 7.09a beta 116 and WB 7.09a beta 117 are corrupting IE toolbar with black parts:
2 examples of what happen on 1 one "old" skin Omega and 1 recent, Organic
(click on the image, then click on "voir la taille réelle to see the real sized image)
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.1 (build 87 x86)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
(Philips 190C (19inch LCD MONITOR 190C7)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
Wblind.dll 2010/04/22 11:20:20
Wbsrv.dll 2010/02/03 16:11:56
SevenConfig.exe 2010/02/15 14:09:57
Wbload.exe 2010/02/02 14:33:18
Wbhelp.dll 2009/02/10 17:28:07
Wbui.dll 2009/02/10 17:28:05
Tray.dll 2009/10/21 16:13:19
Screen.exe 2009/12/03 13:43:26
But trouble is exactly similar on others PC's (with different graphic cards - in all cases with latest drivers avaible) with XP SP3 (french) + IE7
N.B.1: checking (or unchecking) "Enable if you have corrupted titlebar buttons & text backgrounds" in "XP specific" settings has no influence at all
N.B.2: this trouble doesn't exist with WB 7.09 beta 112 or 113
N.B.3: the black parts are going away when mouse goes on it and / or if window is resized
Should be great to fix it because it's a little uggly 
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Reply #22 Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:05 PM
Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?
Reply #23 Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:06 PM
Yes.
Reply #26 Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:51 PM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?
Yes.
Sorry, but not on my machine.
If the UI crashed how did you apply it?
Reply #27 Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:14 PM
I am running 32-bit XP, using IE8 and latest WB release (today's) with no issues at all with Venom applied, or Svelte, or any other skin.
Reply #28 Friday, April 30, 2010 1:33 AM
odd, every time i update WB the SN is lost and i'll have to re activate it...
Reply #31 Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:07 AM
any lovely help from support? i'm getting more and more scared to update lol...
Reply #32 Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:44 AM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?
Yes.
Sorry, but not on my machine.
If the UI crashed how did you apply it?
The config wasn't the problem, Neil. What it did to the taskbar was. Initially both ends (of Svelte) were rounded and shoter than the ends of the screen (Svelte should occupy the entire length of the screen). I switched to Aero, and then back to Svelte and 'only' the right end remained rounded and appeared to be superimposed on the square end of taskbar image.
Rolled back to 7.01.
Reply #33 Saturday, May 1, 2010 6:25 AM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 26
Quoting DrJBHL, reply 25
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 23
Quoting vStyler, reply 22Should the latest one fix the Svelte crashing problem Neil?
Yes.
Sorry, but not on my machine.
If the UI crashed how did you apply it?
The config wasn't the problem, Neil. What it did to the taskbar was. Initially both ends (of Svelte) were rounded and shoter than the ends of the screen (Svelte should occupy the entire length of the screen). I switched to Aero, and then back to Svelte and 'only' the right end remained rounded and appeared to be superimposed on the square end of taskbar image.
Rolled back to 7.01.
The only known issue with the Svelte skin was the crashing which the build addressed.
From your description it sounds like the skin failed to load correctly initially and it resulted in corruption of the WB4 files. Deleting those should have resolved the problem. Switching back to 7.01 would have made those files rebuilt and so fix the issue.
Reply #34 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:17 PM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 5
Please update to the WB 7.09c build that went up today and see if this helps or not.
1°) Well, for me things are different that for RedneckDude and are giving a nice improvment (not complete as you'll see )
IE 7 toolbars lines are no more blacked but "only" the part which is called (i think) rebargripper
Significant example to see the trouble, is with LK WB (by Duopixart): (but other skins are doing the same)
(same as in post #1, click on the image, then click on "voir la taille réelle to see the real sized image)
BUT, as the previous "black" trouble was systematic, now the blacked rebargripper are appearing or not when launching IE 7 and N.B.1, N.B.2 & N.B.3 mentionned in post #1 are still relevant .
2°) That was the news for the "black" trouble, BUT i found out another trouble now with StartMenu (which was already existing with both WB 7.09a betas but not with WB 7.09) and relative to the UserIcon image for skins allowing one
Here are two examples of what's going on (first still with LK WB, 2nd with Buuf OS WB:
&
As far as i could check (but i can be wrong) it seems to me this trouble comes when a UserIcon background image is not defined and / or the margins not correctly set in the skin (but with same skins, UserIcon is correctly displayed with WB 7.09 )
N.B: using or not Blur on Startmenu doesn't change anything
Hope you'll get enough elements to correct those troubles
Any correcting's update soon ? 
Reply #36 Friday, May 21, 2010 10:04 AM
The issue should be resolved in the next beta update. If it is not out this week then it will probably show up next week.
Reply #38 Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:16 PM
2°) BUT (still under XP SP3 - french if any importance - ) i found out another trouble now with StartMenu (which was already existing with both WB 7.09a betas but not with WB 7.09) and relative to the UserIcon image for skins allowing one
Here are two examples of what's going on (first still with LK WB, 2nd with Buuf OS WB):
& 
As far as i could check (but i can be wrong) it seems to me this trouble comes when a UserIcon background image is not defined and / or the margins not correctly set in the skin (but with same skins, UserIcon is correctly displayed with WB 7.09 
)
N.B: using or not Blur on Startmenu doesn't change anything
Hope you'll get enough elements to correct those troubles
This trouble keeps existing exactly the same way and is not corrected with WB v7.09f beta (annoying because i keep using these particular skins and some others in same case ...) 
Reply #40 Tuesday, June 1, 2010 9:44 AM
That specific issue with some skins on XP has been reproduced and should be fixed in the next update.
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Reply #21 Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:52 PM
What problems are you having with todays build?
Haven't updated it, Neil. I decided not to go with the alphas after the prior update...too much angst. I'm just getting old.
* edit. OK, installed it. It initially screwed up the Svelte taskbar. Gave it a 'Krome' type taskbar. Switched it to Aero and back, but it left the right end of the Svelte taskbar rounded (sort of).