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WindowFX 4 Beta Update (v3.91)

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Island Dog
theAVMAN
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Reply #26 November 6, 2010 10:21:16 AM
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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!

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!

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PianoArt
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Reply #27 November 6, 2010 2:54:18 PM
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works great, thx....Thunderbird is working normal again...thx again

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Chef Garry
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Reply #28 November 8, 2010 12:41:06 PM
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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. 

 

 

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Island Dog
skyzyk
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Reply #29 November 8, 2010 2:05:34 PM
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@Neil

Of the ObjectDesktop components I work on WindowBlinds, DeskScapes, SkinStudio and WindowFX.

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?

 

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Neil Banfield
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Reply #30 November 8, 2010 2:27:55 PM
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Quoting Chef Garry,
reply 28

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?

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Neil Banfield
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Reply #31 November 8, 2010 9:01:18 PM
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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?

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theAVMAN
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Reply #32 November 8, 2010 9:08:04 PM
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No I have not found aany other issues!

Nice work sir!!!

 

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Reply #33 November 9, 2010 3:57:09 AM
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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.

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DaveRI
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Reply #34 November 9, 2010 5:03:06 AM
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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.)

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Reply #35 November 9, 2010 7:33:49 AM
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beta two works fine over here,thanks..waiting for more features

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Reply #36 November 9, 2010 9:12:26 AM
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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.

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Reply #37 November 9, 2010 9:12:36 AM
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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!!!

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Reply #38 November 9, 2010 9:31:16 AM
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Quoting theAVMAN,
reply 37

Neil is it possible to have tray access to enable or disable?
That would be nice.

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Reply #39 November 9, 2010 12:55:52 PM
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re: #30

Thanks Neil. Except for the wake up issue it's really very cool.  I'm looking forward to the fix.

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Reply #40 November 9, 2010 2:14:12 PM
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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 #41 November 9, 2010 5:52:17 PM
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Okay, this is a great version... just one request though. If I "make windows under the active window darken to draw attention to the window with focus" in the "Inactive windows" tab then also the destop is darkened if I have programs running while everything is minimized. If all programs running are minimized I would like the desktop not to be darkened (there is no windows having focus at that moment, so darkening the desktop has no use).

Martin

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Jakob Grau
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Reply #42 November 10, 2010 11:18:02 AM
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What I would really like to see in this already great program is a slider for each animation to individually adjust animation speeds. Also, another great minimize/restore animation would be to have the window appear to twist around/flip over on the vertical axis as it moves to/from the taskbar.

 

Most issues with the first beta seem to be resolved on my system, yet I am still having to restart my laptop after it it goes into hibernation, as it doesn't come out of this state properly with WindowFX 4 enabled. I would be happy to just disable the program to avoid the problem, but every time I do, then click on anything on the startmenu/taskbar, it crashes windows explorer and I have to wait for it to restart.

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Reply #43 November 14, 2010 2:24:58 PM
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Neil Just wanted to give you an update .

Since the update no problems coming out of sleep mode Win 7 64bit Laptop!

Thaanks man!!

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Daiwa
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Reply #44 November 17, 2010 12:44:14 AM
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On XPP SP3, ATI Radeon X1300PRO.  Background dimming and inactive window trans enabled.  No transitions enabled.  Current Windowblinds beta running.

Getting single bright flicker of dimmed parent window when mouse-over tooltip appears in child window.  No such flicker when tooltips appear over SysTray or QL tray items or TaskBar buttons.  Also getting a lot of brief transition video artifacts/black areas when moving from window to window.  Portion of taskbar right-click menu overlying the taskbar disappears after about 10 seconds (I know - who leaves the taskbar right-click menu active for 10 seconds? It was an accident.).  Annoying/bothersome enough behavior that I've disabled WFX.  Very cool features which I would definitely use if they were smooth/seamless.

FWIW.  I know it's a 'Jurassic' rig.

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