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!
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Reply #82 Thursday, November 4, 2010 4:17 PM
This is just a quick post to say the beta 2 update is now up.
Reply #83 Thursday, November 4, 2010 4:43 PM
My laptop wakes up from hibernation instantly now. Thanks Neil.
Reply #84 Friday, November 5, 2010 10:54 AM
The recent update has fixed the issues I had with minimizing/ restoring and transparency of inactive windows. Well done, thanks. 
Reply #85 Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:05 PM
Is there any intention of reinstating the window animations in XP?
Seems odd that WFX3 could do this but WXF4 tells us we need Vista/7.
Reply #86 Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:16 PM
Haven't tried it yet myself, but according to Neil you can run WFX3 & WFX4 simultaneously on XP.
Reply #88 Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:04 PM
Ya I installed FX3 after uninstalling it and installing FX4, seem to be working together ok generally. Haven't dinked with the arrangement a lot though.
Reply #89 Friday, November 26, 2010 11:17 AM
OK, I've got v3.99 (v4.0 RC) installed and everything's working great except Windows Flick.
I have all options off except Windows Flick and movement momentum. The default options
for flicks are set ("Fill 50% of left screen on left flick", etc.) Then, I tried flicking an explorer
window left, right, top and bottom but nothing seems to happen. Flicking means dragging a
window and then throwing it around the screen, right? I'm positive that WFX is enabled and
that the window I'm flicking is a re-sizable one. Can somebody please tell me what I'm
doing wrong? I'm using Win7 Ultimate x64 by the way.
Reply #90 Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:13 PM
I have all options off except Windows Flick and movement momentum. The default options
for flicks are set ("Fill 50% of left screen on left flick", etc.) Then, I tried flicking an explorer
window left, right, top and bottom but nothing seems to happen. Flicking means dragging a
window and then throwing it around the screen, right? I'm positive that WFX is enabled and
that the window I'm flicking is a re-sizable one. Can somebody please tell me what I'm
doing wrong? I'm using Win7 Ultimate x64 by the way.
It is probably how you are doing the flick itself.
A flick is a rapid movement in that direction. By rapid we mean the time between pressing the mouse button and releasing it is short. So dragging a window and then trying a flick would not work unless the mouse button was released in between the move and then the flick action.
Reply #91 Monday, November 29, 2010 6:14 AM
Thanks Neil, I got it! I didn't realize the flick is like the one on a touch screen.
I had been trying to drag the window and throw it around when all I needed to
do was make a flick using the cursor in place of a finger as I would on a touch
screen. Thanks very much for a great app! It's all the more reason for renewing
my OD subscription when the time comes around in January.
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Reply #81 Thursday, November 4, 2010 5:02 AM
Quoting Neil Banfield,
reply 77
Quoting skyzyk, reply 74Major problem with disappearing windows in several programs and Firefox.
Firefox, Photoshop, Apophysis -several lost renders, had to start all over, BSOD 2x, all when manipulating windows or minimizing. The bad parts FAR outweigh the good parts. For me this was not ready to be released. I am not impressed at all so far. All I see is disable this and disable that as advice, here in this thread. It's like disabling Windows Blin ds for all programs and apps. What are you left with, not much.
Windows 7 x64, ATI HD5750
If you have experienced BSOD then Windows will have pointed you to the offending component on reboot. I suspect you have defective video drivers and the bug in them is only being shown up by WindowFX. WindowFX itself is not capable of being the root cause of a BSOD (only kernel mode things can cause a BSOD)
You must remember this is beta software and it is expected there will be bugs. If you are uncomfortable with the possibility of there being bugs then do not use it.
Regarding missing windows, that is all linked to an issue with close animations. Disable those and it should be fine.
The BSOD was not due to FX4 Neither video driver but a new program installed and properly uninstalled. I find that a sidetrack. If yo omit the part about the BSOD All the other problems still exist and of that you don't say very much. When should we expect an update so we can enable everything we have disabled? I did follow your advice and uninstalled it. Sorry but it's not my fault if all you are getting is negative feedback about this product.
Unless I am missing something you have only reported a single issue which is missing windows. As I explained this is probably linked to the close animation bug which can be avoided by not using close animations in beta 1.
There is an updated beta due to go out later today. I cannot promise it addresses all issues as sometimes the information provided is insufficient to reproduce the issue but it has a number of bug fixes based on internal testing along with beta user reports. It also adds in some new animations.
As with all betas it may still contain bugs.
Overall the feedback has been positive on WindowFX 4.