Tab title redraw bug

[aburnett]

After upgrading XYplorer 24.40 portable to 25.60 portable I notice the following bug: when the mouse arrow moves over a tab, the text of that tab is redrawn incorrectly, like in a broken, extremely pixelated cleartype.

If I downgrade to v24.40, the bug disappears.

I'm using Windows Server 2003, theme "Windows Classic", cleartype enabled, Themes service disabled.

[admin]

Strange. Nobody else reported this.

1) Are you using any 3rd party Windows skin?

2) Does it also happen in a fresh instance (= with factory defaults)?

[aburnett]

Good news. I isolated the problem.

The bug shows up if:

• Cleartype is enabled in the OS, and

• Configuration -> Tabs and Panes -> Tabs -> Visual Style is set to Windows Theme Style

Changing this setting to XYplorer Archaic Style or XYplorer Modern Style solves the issue.

Since nobody reported the problem, I guess that it only happens on Windows XP/2003. Sad to see the last good Windows being abandoned.

PD: To answer your questions: I don't use any 3rd party skins; it doesn't happen in a fresh instance unless Visual Style is changed to Windows Theme Style.
PD2: Enabling or disabling the Themes service doesn't make any difference.

[admin]

Thanks, interesting But hard to understand: The code used to draw the caption is the same regardless of the "Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Visual Style" setting.

Can you show a screenshot of the issue?

[aburnett]

Sure. I attached screenshots of before and after changing visual style.

[admin]

Ah, that's several identical captions printed on top of each other without erasing the previous one first. I should be able to fix that.

[admin]

I think you should simply set the style to "XYplorer Archaic Style".

[aburnett]

Yes. Archaic and Modern work fine. I'm currently using Modern.

[highend]

Try the latest beta…

[aburnett]

Confirming that it's fixed in the latest beta.