Windowblinds 4.X and Windows 2000
Sunday, March 7, 2004 by grindlestone | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hi there,
I'm running Windowblinds under win2K. I have noticed that with WB 4.1 or 4.2 (which are supposed to be 2K friendly) draging a window edge to resise that window cause the scrollbars to stutter while it is being dragged. If I run WB3.5 there is no stuttering and window resizing is smooth as silk. It's very annoying. Does anyone know what's up here? I like to have "show window contents while dragging" swithched on because, lets face it, you should be able to do that with modern video cards.
My specs are:
Athlon XP 2400
Abit NF7-S
512m Kinmax DDR 2700
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
I'm running Windowblinds under win2K. I have noticed that with WB 4.1 or 4.2 (which are supposed to be 2K friendly) draging a window edge to resise that window cause the scrollbars to stutter while it is being dragged. If I run WB3.5 there is no stuttering and window resizing is smooth as silk. It's very annoying. Does anyone know what's up here? I like to have "show window contents while dragging" swithched on because, lets face it, you should be able to do that with modern video cards.
My specs are:
Athlon XP 2400
Abit NF7-S
512m Kinmax DDR 2700
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
DavidK
Reply #2 Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:15 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:15 PM
I hadn't noticed that but now that you point it out I see it's happening on my system too...
must be an improvement in WB... the new jumping scrollbar feature "watch 'em shake!" 
Essencay
Reply #3 Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:36 PM
Unload WB and the scrollbars still shake....so I think it's an XP issue
Reply #3 Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:36 PM
| watch 'em shake |
Unload WB and the scrollbars still shake....so I think it's an XP issue
Shameless Designs
Reply #4 Sunday, March 7, 2004 7:15 PM
Unload WB and the scrollbars still bounce/shake/stutter... true.
But Uninstall WB as I had to recently for another reason, and the scrollbars stop bouncing... So I'm thinking it is a WB issue.
Reply #4 Sunday, March 7, 2004 7:15 PM
| Unload WB and the scrollbars still shake....so I think it's an XP issue |
Unload WB and the scrollbars still bounce/shake/stutter... true.
But Uninstall WB as I had to recently for another reason, and the scrollbars stop bouncing... So I'm thinking it is a WB issue.
Essencay
Reply #5 Sunday, March 7, 2004 7:32 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, March 7, 2004 7:32 PM
I just figured that with all the stuff running on my desktop. Wallpaper, Sysmetrix, DX, IconX and WB, my video card couldn't keep up with the re-drawing the scrollbars while resizing a window and it wasn't WB because it uses so little resources. Been so long since I wasn't using WB, and now that all my Stardock software is running well, I'll leave it alone...and go with what Shameless said 
I'm using a Radeon 7500 64MB DDR and according to Sisoft Sandra another 128MB of system memory is dedicated to the AGP function.
I'm using a Radeon 7500 64MB DDR and according to Sisoft Sandra another 128MB of system memory is dedicated to the AGP function.
grindlestone
Reply #6 Sunday, March 7, 2004 8:24 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, March 7, 2004 8:24 PM
I think from what some of you are saying it seems the scrollbars flicker a fair bit at present across the windows platforms. Hope that futer upgrades resolve the issue?
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Reply #1 Sunday, March 7, 2004 4:27 PM
Sorry, I can't offer any help or solution, but I thought this may possibly be related to your problem, and thought I should post in case it sparks something in someone else reading it.