WindowFX 4 Beta Update (v3.91)
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
A new beta of WindowFX 4 is available on Impulse for Object Desktop subscribers. WindowFX 4 is a new application which brings cool animations and functionality to the Windows interface.
This beta update includes:
- Added new animations : expand / shrink to/from screen, slide from/to left, right, bottom, top and random
- Added option to indicate to the user that the window flick they tried cannot be applied
- Added flicks to move windows to monitor above / below
- Modified flicks for moving monitors to move the window the correct amount
- Tweaks for explorer not responding on shutdown
- Fixed problem with close animation sometimes causing missing windows later
- Fixed 'disco effect' on firefox minimizing when using darken inactive windows
- Fixed bug with auto minimize impacting WindowFX config window if left open and active
- Fixed inactive window transparency causing problems when a window is minimized and restored
- Possible fix for problems with hibernation. If you're still having trouble, we need details on the settings enabled in WindowFX and if it happens with a quick laptop cover shut, or if there are additional repro steps.
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Reply #23 Saturday, November 6, 2010 9:57 AM
The features in WindowFX 4 have changed from WindowFX 3 but as you are on XP you should be able to continue to use WindowFX 3 together with WindowFX 4 if you wish.
Wish I had known this. Wouldn't have uninstalled WFX3. They are fully independent of each other on XP?
In theory yes. I cannot promise every option will work together but they do not share any registry keys or files.
Reply #24 Saturday, November 6, 2010 10:08 AM
Here's a minor issue I'm seeing on my laptop:
On the little side scroll windows in the animations tab, the item selection is about one animation to the right of where the mouse cursor is (in the image, you can see the mouse cursor, which is where I pressed the selection, and the animation to the right got selected). The display settings on the laptop have the font size set to 125%, which is probably the root of the issue, though I don't see this behavior with the WB or IP side scrolls.
Reduced 50%
Original 1200 x 764
The issue with the animation tab and higher dpis should be resolved for the next build. I think thats the only bit of the UI which didn't handle high dpi correctly.
Reply #25 Saturday, November 6, 2010 10:11 AM
I have some really coarse timing information for recovery from the Suspend state. With WFX4 Disabled and the laptop in the Suspend state for 5 minutes, hitting the Shift key brings up the logon prompt in about 1 second. With WFX4 Enabled and the laptop in the Suspend state for 5 minutes, hitting the Shift key brings up the logon prompt in about 6 seconds. Based upon these admittedly coarse measurements, a laptop that has been in the Suspend state for 8 hours would take about 8 minutes to eventually "catch up". Small wonder that users are power cycling their laptops!
Thanks for your feedback. I have a theory on what might be going on.
Reply #26 Saturday, November 6, 2010 10:21 AM
To some what confirm this , yesterday I put it to sleep twice it came right back so with out worrying last night I close the lid ,this morning (hit any key to resume) at about 5mins I held the power button down till it shut off and rebooted it may have come back if I left it longer it had been asleep for about 7hrs.
To test this I just put it back to sleep and it woke back up imediately!
Reply #27 Saturday, November 6, 2010 2:54 PM
works great, thx....Thunderbird is working normal again...thx again
Reply #28 Monday, November 8, 2010 12:41 PM
Unfortunately I still have to hard boot to get mine running again. no problems without FX running.
Edit - I see I'm not the only one. I think I'll leave it disabled until the next update and hopefull that will resolve the issue.
Reply #29 Monday, November 8, 2010 2:05 PM
@Neil
EVERYTHING is working fine, Win7 HP, x64, ATI HD-5750. I appreciate the way you strive to make our computing experience a little more pleasurable. I thank you for this update and look forward to the future. What`s next on the drawing board? 
Reply #30 Monday, November 8, 2010 2:27 PM
I had installed on the day of the release and did not know it was causing problem on resume,. My laptop was set to sleep upon a lid close it would restart the HDD's but not the display no matter what I did , I would end up doing a hard restart to get it back. I installed the update and have put it to sleep 2x no problems now all seems to be fixed. Thanks everyone ,There are some very nice and productive feartures very smooth interface and intuitive configure panel!!
Unfortunately I still have to hard boot to get mine running again. no problems without FX running.
Edit - I see I'm not the only one. I think I'll leave it disabled until the next update and hopefull that will resolve the issue.
It looks like we have addressed this in the next set of builds so hopefully that will be sorted later this week.
Did you encounter any other problems with the software?
Reply #31 Monday, November 8, 2010 9:01 PM
With the exception of the laptop resume from suspend and the high dpi animations tab issue, has anyone else encountered any problems with beta 2?
Reply #32 Monday, November 8, 2010 9:08 PM
No I have not found aany other issues!
Nice work sir!!!
Reply #33 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:57 AM
nope. Very good work. Indeed the resume does crash my displaydriver (nvidia) if i leave Winfx enabled before sleep. Weirdly the longer it sleeps the longer it takes to resume from sleep If i just do sleep/reusme immediately alll's is well. If i wait an hour or so it takes 30 seconds to resume, if i leave it overnight it takes several minutes.
Reply #34 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 5:03 AM
I'm still consistently seeing the XP/Excel 2003 maximize crash I described in reply #45 here:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/399558/page/2/#replies
If it's Ancient App Syndrome that's fine, just didn't see anybody else say anything about it one way or another. (I also see it on Word 2002, ick - even older 
. Haven't seen it on anything else, and haven't come across a WB skin that avoids it with FX loaded.)
Reply #35 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:33 AM
beta two works fine over here,thanks..waiting for more features
Reply #36 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 9:12 AM
Another interesting remote desktop oddity.
Run RD full screen. Another window on the local workstation gets focus above the RD layer (an alert or similar). WindowFX shake fails to affect the RD session.
Reply #37 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 9:12 AM
No bug but a possible request:
Neil is it possible to have tray access to enable or disable?
Also one other idea allow users to set everything and save as a user profile limit it to 4 stored profiles then a right click from tray could give you
- *Enable
- *Disable r
- *(Profile Name 1)
- *(Profile Name 2)
- *(Profile Name 3)
- *(Profile Name 4)
Just an idea!!!
Reply #39 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:55 PM
re: #30
Thanks Neil. Except for the wake up issue it's really very cool. I'm looking forward to the fix.
Reply #40 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:14 PM
I do the oddest things I guess.
I haev teh inactive windows set to dim.
Running a java app that spawns new windows. One of the child windows had focus. The parent window has mouseover effects though.
Also, if the parent window has focus the children also have focus. If one of the children has focus, the parent and other child windows loss focus
Video:
http://screencast.com/t/EtChQSUjIom
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 6, 2010 1:19 AM
Wish I had known this. Wouldn't have uninstalled WFX3. They are fully independent of each other on XP?