WB5 Errors
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 by jeffreyw | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Radio Buttons, the Start Button, and vertical shat tray are not dispalyed properly after installation of WB5 on a skin I have developed. I also experience problems with packaged and down loaded skins. The problems differ from skin to skin. Everthing still appears correct under skin studio but the skin does not appear correct when applied. The following is the information contained in the WB5 troubleshooting page.
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
If you suffer visible corruption (overbright) on the frames and have a NVIDIA board then please be aware this is a NVIDIA bug. It has been seen on GeForce 4 cards and some FX series cards.
Video Information
You have one monitor in total.
(ViewSonic A91f+) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6200
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
If you suffer visible corruption (overbright) on the frames and have a NVIDIA board then please be aware this is a NVIDIA bug. It has been seen on GeForce 4 cards and some FX series cards.
Video Information
You have one monitor in total.
(ViewSonic A91f+) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6200
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
jeffreyw
Reply #2 Saturday, October 8, 2005 12:51 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, October 8, 2005 12:51 AM
Mike,
The following is a listing of the information you requested:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2083 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1009, 3/2/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 588.25 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.91 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200 (256 VRAM)
The problems I experience vary from skin to skin. The radio buttons may not be displayed correctly on one skin but work correctly on another skin. If the radio buttons are affected, they are displayed incorrectly on every occasion and the problems remain consistant each time the skin is displayed. (Reloading the skin does not change any of the problems.)
I developed a skin that works fine under WB4 but has problems under WB5. One of the problems is the vertical track bar shaft graphic is corrupted. The horizontal shaft tray icon works correctly. The problem is consistent and occurs each time this skin is loaded under WB5 but the vertical shaft graphic works fine with other skins under WB5.
The highlighted menu item graphic is corrupt in some skins but works correctly in others. All the skins worked correctly under WB4.
I can post some screen shots if you think it will help isolate the problem.
Thank you,
Jeffreyw
The following is a listing of the information you requested:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2083 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1009, 3/2/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 588.25 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.91 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200 (256 VRAM)
The problems I experience vary from skin to skin. The radio buttons may not be displayed correctly on one skin but work correctly on another skin. If the radio buttons are affected, they are displayed incorrectly on every occasion and the problems remain consistant each time the skin is displayed. (Reloading the skin does not change any of the problems.)
I developed a skin that works fine under WB4 but has problems under WB5. One of the problems is the vertical track bar shaft graphic is corrupted. The horizontal shaft tray icon works correctly. The problem is consistent and occurs each time this skin is loaded under WB5 but the vertical shaft graphic works fine with other skins under WB5.
The highlighted menu item graphic is corrupt in some skins but works correctly in others. All the skins worked correctly under WB4.
I can post some screen shots if you think it will help isolate the problem.
Thank you,
Jeffreyw
Neil Banfield
Reply #3 Saturday, October 8, 2005 5:02 AM
Reply #3 Saturday, October 8, 2005 5:02 AM
Please make sure you have the latest WB5 beta installed.
jeffreyw
Reply #4 Sunday, October 9, 2005 2:46 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, October 9, 2005 2:46 AM
The latest WB5 build corrected my problems! Thank you for the assistance.
One suggestion for the release version:
It would be helpful if the WB4 Per Application settings were automatically applied in WB5 when upgrading.
Thank you,
jeffreyw
One suggestion for the release version:
It would be helpful if the WB4 Per Application settings were automatically applied in WB5 when upgrading.
Thank you,
jeffreyw
neophil78
Reply #5 Sunday, October 9, 2005 4:39 AM
Reply #5 Sunday, October 9, 2005 4:39 AM
Is that normal, there's no more WB icon near the clock ? and no more install/uninstall skins in the WB control panel ?
Apart off that i got a
"WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
etc ..."
(What has to go with the netmeeting driver with WB ?
)
Apart off that i got a
"WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
etc ..."
(What has to go with the netmeeting driver with WB ?
)
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #6 Sunday, October 9, 2005 6:22 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, October 9, 2005 6:22 AM
WB is no longer shown in the system tray because it is no longer a running task. If you look at task manager you'll see wbload.exe is not there any more. Zero footprint 
Some of the options for WB now show on the preview image of the skin, including delete skins - it takes a while to notice this even though it's right in front of you!
neophil78
Reply #7 Sunday, October 9, 2005 7:29 AM
Reply #7 Sunday, October 9, 2005 7:29 AM
Thanks for theses answers Fuzzy Logic
Off course theses changes were evident
Off course theses changes were evident
neophil78
Reply #8 Sunday, October 9, 2005 9:37 AM
including "turn off glassy effects and switch start panel into french version one" ?
Reply #8 Sunday, October 9, 2005 9:37 AM
| Some of the options for WB now show on the preview image of the skin |
including "turn off glassy effects and switch start panel into french version one" ?
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Reply #1 Friday, October 7, 2005 3:49 PM
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