WindowFX 4 Beta Has Arrived!

Thursday, October 28, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

The long awaited beta for WindowFX 4 has arrived today, and users with an active Object Desktop subscription can download the beta via Impulse.  This is a completely new app with a new direction from what you might have experienced with previous versions.

The beta includes:

  • Custom animations for window open/close/minimize/restore
  • Enhanced window resizing options when dragging to screen edges
  • Eliminate distractions by drawing attention to the foreground window
  • Enable window momentum when moving windows
  • Window Flick mouse actions to customize window movement, maximizing, and monitor location
  • Allow Flash videos to run full-screen on one monitor (on a multi-monitor system)
  • Semi-transparent windows when inactive or moving a window
  • Keep a clean desktop by automatically minimizing inactive windows after a configurable period
  • Extend right-click window menus with additional features including custom maximized window sizes and always-on-top visibility settings

We will be talking a lot more about the features soon, so keep an eye out for those articles.  It’s not too late to get your Object Desktop subscription and check out not only WindowFX 4, but full versions of our other desktop enhancement apps like WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes, and more!

www.objectdesktop.com

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RedneckDude
Reply #41 Friday, October 29, 2010 4:27 PM

Are you sure you didn't update something else around the same time? Say intel video drivers

Positive....  and I have nVidia gfx. Well...there were some windows updates, I think.

RedneckDude
Reply #42 Friday, October 29, 2010 5:06 PM

Neil, I have discovered that my graphics driver wasn't installed correctly and that was the problem with my context menu. Nothing to do with WinFX. I am sorry.

 

Still the thing with photoshop exists. Maybe we could get an exclusion list option, like with WB7?

Uvah
Reply #43 Friday, October 29, 2010 5:14 PM

I'll wait for the final release. WindowFX is way to slick to fool with. I remember having an old version on my emachine and it gave it the willies. But that may have been my fooling around with all the effects one after another.

ALMonty
Reply #44 Friday, October 29, 2010 6:03 PM

Works great on my Vista machine. My laptop with Win 7 takes a long time coming out of hibernation so I had to turn it off. Nice work anyways.

DaveRI
Reply #45 Friday, October 29, 2010 6:26 PM

XPHomeSP3 with MSExcel version 2003 (current patches)  I know, old o/s and ancient app, just throwing it out here in case it's useful.

EDIT:  ***Only seems to be happening with Windowblinds running.  Tried it with Gloss Black loaded and Polaris loaded, crashes on both.  Doesn't crash after unloading Windowblinds via systray unload.

Crashes Excel:

Enable WinFX4 Config HomeTab "Add additional options to the window right click menu".

Go to Excel window titlebar right-click menu "Window maximizing control".

Select anything other than "Always maximize to normal size".

Causes Excel to crash when clicking on the Excel window maximize button to execute the alternate maximized size. (crashes hard, exel.exe process just disappears from task manager)


Double-clicking on Excel window borders to resize works fine.  Right-click "Window size control" resizing works fine.  No animations enabled (XP).

Liking it in general.  Resizing enhancements are quite handy. Multi-monitor flash video fullscreen control in itself is worth having it installed.

Wizard1956
Reply #46 Friday, October 29, 2010 6:29 PM

 Win7/64

WFX settings; Custom Min/ Shrink  Custom Restore/Expand

Inactive windows set to make transparent.

Two or more windows on the desktop.

When restoring a window from the taskbar, it remains transparent when clicked on even while dragging it. One of the inactive windows has to be clicked to get a solid window, or click on the desktop, then you can click on the window restored from the taskbar to make it solid. Hopefully some of that made sense.

On the desktop, it changes focus from window to window correctly.

starkers
Reply #47 Friday, October 29, 2010 8:27 PM

I'm not seeing this app in Impulse.  I have 'show pre-releases ticked and I have reset data, etc, but still it is not showing.  My ObjectDesktop sub is current to Feb 2011, so it's not that, either.

Strange! 

RedneckDude
Reply #48 Friday, October 29, 2010 8:32 PM

starkers
I'm not seeing this app in Impulse.  I have 'show pre-releases ticked and I have reset data, etc, but still it is not showing.  My ObjectDesktop sub is current to Feb 2011, so it's not that, either.

Strange! 

Do you have non installed apps hidden?

Wizard1956
Reply #49 Friday, October 29, 2010 8:35 PM

starkers
I'm not seeing this app in Impulse.  I have 'show pre-releases ticked and I have reset data, etc, but still it is not showing.  My ObjectDesktop sub is current to Feb 2011, so it's not that, either.

Strange! 

Do you have non-installed apps hidden(View tab, uncheck hide) or WFX hidden?(blue button, select show)

Edit: Beat by seconds by the Rednecked One.

starkers
Reply #50 Friday, October 29, 2010 9:05 PM

Do you have non installed apps hidden?

Do you have non-installed apps hidden(View tab, uncheck hide) or WFX hidden?(blue button, select show)

Yup, that was it orright.... thanks, guys.

starkers is so old... he doesn't remember hiding non-installed apps.

RedneckDude
Reply #51 Friday, October 29, 2010 9:08 PM

starkers is so old... he doesn't remember hiding non-installed apps.

Wrong thread.......damn, you are old, huh? 

starkers
Reply #52 Friday, October 29, 2010 9:15 PM

Wrong thread.......damn, you are old, huh?

Yup... I have CRAFT disease, Can't Remember A Flamin' Thing.

PurrBall
Reply #53 Friday, October 29, 2010 9:34 PM

The "flick" options screen could be a little cleaner, instead of saying "to the left" at the end of each option, could each dropdown be titled "Left" "Right" etc?

Daiwa
Reply #54 Friday, October 29, 2010 10:32 PM

I was just missing a portion of my brain.  Problem solved.

Daiwa
Reply #55 Friday, October 29, 2010 10:36 PM

Same - I was just missing part of my brain as above.  Sorry 'bout that.

Aleatoric
Reply #56 Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:44 AM
Here's an issue I'm seeing. On a laptop, set to sleep when closing the lid, it fails to wake up when WFX4 is enabled (no issue when not enabled). The effects work fine while the computer is active, but when I close the lid (and put it to sleep), it does nothing when the lid is opened (have to reboot to get the system to work again). Just a possible issue
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #57 Saturday, October 30, 2010 4:18 AM

W7 64 - getting issues on shutdown with windows coming up with a message about closing explorer. It does it every time so FX is disabled for now.

starkers
Reply #58 Saturday, October 30, 2010 5:29 AM

W7 64 - getting issues on shutdown with windows coming up with a message about closing explorer. It does it every time so FX is disabled for now.

Not seeing that on my Win 7 x64 rig.

Phoon
Reply #59 Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:57 AM

Neil,

I could not reproduce my issue with Outlook 2010. I was on a different machine however so it may or may not be relavant information.

RedneckDude
Reply #60 Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:51 AM

I reported the failure of Firefox to return from minimized state. Well, I also had this:

I was updating Windows Live 2011 and at one point it minimizes itself, it never returned so I moused over it and could see that it was waiting for me to make a choice, but I couldn't get it to restore so I could make that choice.

So there is definitely a problem with things returning from minimization. I killed WinFX, restarted the install, no problems.

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