WindowBlinds 7.9x (WB 8) Beta Issue Thread
If you have a problem, post it here!
Monday, May 20, 2013 by Island Dog | Discussion: Stardock Support General
As you probably know, we have released the WindowBlinds 7.90 beta today. Please use this thread only to report any issues that you come across that you'd like to report.
Note: Current beta is only for active Object Desktop subscribers. Info about upgrades for current WindowBlinds (non-Object Desktop) customers will be available at a later date.
- What OS are you using, Windows 7 or Windows 8?
- A screenshot of the issue if possible
- x86 or x64
- Name/link to skin if applicable
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Reply #202 Friday, June 7, 2013 1:11 AM
The latest beta (7.95) is working great for me as it has ironed out most bugs. However, I encountered another small problem specifically with Windows Photo Viewer as most of its buttons are somehow replaced with a blue/pink texture when hovering over it. On Windows 8 64-bit and happens on every skin except default windows. Am I the only one facing this issue?
Reply #203 Friday, June 7, 2013 7:32 AM
The latest beta (7.95) is working great for me as it has ironed out most bugs. However, I encountered another small problem specifically with Windows Photo Viewer as most of its buttons are somehow replaced with a blue/pink texture when hovering over it. On Windows 8 64-bit and happens on every skin except default windows. Am I the only one facing this issue?
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/733/bugcf.png[/quote]
Weird. Reproduced and passing along to devs.
Reply #204 Friday, June 7, 2013 9:47 AM
I don't know how much it is asking, but would it be possible to diffuse (blur) the background for the glassing effect rather than just a sharp clear picture? The title text and text behind the glassed effects are difficult to read sometimes and blurring would solve that.
Reply #205 Friday, June 7, 2013 9:49 AM
Coherence with Parallels:
When I'm using that, any theme I use will cause a block around all the windows skinned...I'm assuming to provide buffer space for different themes.
Solutions:
1) a way to reduce this to size to the theme or
2) an optional feature to automatically revert to the default windows theme instead of blinds when parallels it changed to coherence mode.
Reply #207 Friday, June 7, 2013 9:52 AM
I was also having issues in avast where the program windows where horribly distorted. I don't have the version that created that, but I will test it with the new version thisafternoon. I don't think I can reproduce on 7.91 so this may not be an issue.
Reply #208 Friday, June 7, 2013 10:57 AM
Hi Neil..... any ideas why the WB icon in my systray does nothing at all? (Windows 8 fresh install, WB7.91) Thank you.
We believe we know what is wrong with this, so hopefully it will be sorted in the next update.
Reply #209 Friday, June 7, 2013 11:12 AM
I'm not seeing this problem at all. Win 8 Pro Med. Ctr. Edition.
Reply #211 Friday, June 7, 2013 12:13 PM
All seems to work fine except for the menus on Outlook 2007 and Office 2007 if minimized or covered by another window. They block out and while running a mouse over them brings back enough button text to to see to exit they must be restarted to get the full menu back.
Reply #212 Friday, June 7, 2013 12:41 PM
All seems to work fine except for the menus on Outlook 2007 and Office 2007 if minimized or covered by another window. They block out and while running a mouse over them brings back enough button text to to see to exit they must be restarted to get the full menu back.
Do you have a screenshot of this?
Reply #213 Friday, June 7, 2013 12:42 PM
All seems to work fine except for the menus on Outlook 2007 and Office 2007 if minimized or covered by another window. They block out and while running a mouse over them brings back enough button text to to see to exit they must be restarted to get the full menu back.
Any chance of a screenshot or video?
Reply #214 Friday, June 7, 2013 1:25 PM
I'm actually having a problem with the WB UI and not the program itself.
Something tells me that there should be some text on the blue buttons. I was only able to find "apply" by accident.
Also when I started it up the first time there was a dialog with 3 choices. but there was no text to indicate what those choices are. I found out by trial and error that the bottom choice was "activate the product". but even then, there was no text labels on the entry fields where you put in your account mail and password. I have tried the interface with Aero applied just to test.......same.
It should be noted that the same dialog box showed up on deskscapes and sks.
I also have no WBconfig icon in the tray.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.6
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.6
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.95 (011 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Wblind.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:ll
Wblind64.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:33
Wbsrv.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:07
WB8Config.exe 2013/06/06 16:01:16
Wbload.exe 2013/05/07 19:30:24
Wbhelp.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:37
Tray.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:19
Wbload.dll 2013/06/04 16:10:39
Screen.exe 2013/06/06 15:52:23
Reply #215 Friday, June 7, 2013 1:31 PM
This is from Outlook 2007. All other Office 2007 programs are doing the same thing.
Windowblinds 7.95
Win 8 Pro 64bit
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
12gb memory
Reply #216 Friday, June 7, 2013 3:17 PM
I'm actually having a problem with the WB UI and not the program itself.
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Something tells me that there should be some text on the blue buttons. I was only able to find "apply" by accident.
Also when I started it up the first time there was a dialog with 3 choices. but there was no text to indicate what those choices are. I found out by trial and error that the bottom choice was "activate the product". but even then, there was no text labels on the entry fields where you put in your account mail and password. I have tried the interface with Aero applied just to test.......same.
It should be noted that the same dialog box showed up on deskscapes and sks.
I also have no WBconfig icon in the tray.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.6
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.6
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.95 (011 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Wblind.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:ll
Wblind64.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:33
Wbsrv.dll 2013/06/06 19:12:07
WB8Config.exe 2013/06/06 16:01:16
Wbload.exe 2013/05/07 19:30:24
Wbhelp.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:37
Tray.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:19
Wbload.dll 2013/06/04 16:10:39
Screen.exe 2013/06/06 15:52:23
It appears your video drivers are not up to the job and the parts of the UI that use newer text rendering technology (DirectWrite) are painting blank.
You should be having the exact same problem in DeskScapes.
Some of our other products have code to check if the drivers are buggy, but it seems this was missing from the WB config app, so the next update will have this so it can detect they are not really painting any text and fall back to the older GDI based text rendering.
Reply #218 Saturday, June 8, 2013 3:02 AM
On mine, WB 8 beta, there are no names for the skins. They only show up when you mouse over them.
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Reply #220 Saturday, June 8, 2013 7:42 AM
Thanks! I was wondering the same thing myself.
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Reply #201 Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:17 PM
I use RBTray to minimize to tray when right click the minimize button but it does not work anymore when WindowBlinds 8 is load.
Thanks.