XY64: UI corrupted after using floating preview

[JohnM]

After browsing a bunch (100+) of graphics files and using floating preview (#178) on them, XY's UI becomes corrupted (see example image).

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Moving the window around and clicking inside it hints that the UI is still intact but just the display is affected.

Edit: It just happened again. I had been browsing some more graphics files (using #178 via a script), but was actually triggered after using 7-zip to unpack somefiles into a folder. (see new example). I opened a zip file with 7zip and then dragged the contents of the zip a folder. It looks like the "Replace or Skip files" dialogue was displayed.

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After killing and restarting XY, the same operation worked fine.

[admin]

Currently, no bugs are being fixed at TB. Let's wait for the next release, which I hear will bring many improvements, and see how it goes.

[JohnM]

Ok. I will keep an eye out.

[JohnM]

Sadly this issue is still happening for me:

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[admin]

Too early. We are still waiting for the next release.

[JohnM]

No worries.

Just didn't want you to forget about me.

[daniel_m]

I know you are aware of this bug and would just like to add that the garbled graphics do affect the Windows Taskbar as well (I added the orange rectangles for privacy reasons):

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Whatever is causing the XYplorer surface to get corrupted, it also corrupts a Windows component or the graphics driver. The Taskbar corruption remains when I close and restart XYplorer (until I force Windows to re-draw the Taskbar). It happens infrequently and can therefore not be replicated.

[admin]

Crass! (Never saw it here though)

[Magnus]

I've seen that with the side window preview with heavy preview activity. After some time the display distorts and locks up. Restart solves it, though inconvenient.

[JohnM]

Minor update.

I have noticed that when this happens, the gui of ConEmu (see: https://github.com/ConEmu) also gets messed up but not to the same extent. The menu bar loses some elements which reappear on mouse over.

No expert but maybe this points to a GDI corruption of some kind...

Anyhow, I will take a screen grab next time it happens.

Cheers
John

[bossi]

yeah sometimes the glitch propagates into the windows bar and some other apps GUI , dunno hows that even possible ,, and yeah , the floating preview is the main cuase ,, in workflows where i use it constantly the glitch occurs within 1 hour as if some stack does not get cleared or sth ...

[JohnM]

It just happened again but this time I was not using floating preview but fiddling with user buttons in the toolbar:

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As promised here is what happened to ConEmu's UI:

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It should look like:

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Cheers
John

[admin]

These are definitely twinBASIC errors. tB is still in the BETA stage, which is noticeable here and there. We just have to wait for the next version.

[Gido]

I also constantly encounter this problem. I'm not sure it's a preview issue. I've noticed that the likelihood of this happening increases significantly if I'm actively navigating through folders. For example, a folder contains a bunch of other folders, and I need to go into them, do something, go back to the previous level, and then move on to the next folder.

[admin]

It looks like an issue with the graphics memory to me. Unreleased handles pile up over time until everything breaks.