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.
Tab title redraw bug
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
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)?
1) Are you using any 3rd party Windows skin?
2) Does it also happen in a fresh instance (= with factory defaults)?
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
Good news. I isolated the problem.
The bug shows up if:
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.
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
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.
Last edited by aburnett on 03 Mar 2024 22:07, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
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?
Can you show a screenshot of the issue?
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
Sure. I attached screenshots of before and after changing visual style.
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- Fresh instance (default settings)
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- After changing Visual Style to "Windows Theme Style" and moving the mouse arrow over the tabs a few times (note how the currently active tab is not affected, it only happens on inactive tabs)
- bad.png (45.3 KiB) Viewed 256 times
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
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.
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
I think you should simply set the style to "XYplorer Archaic Style".
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
Yes. Archaic and Modern work fine. I'm currently using Modern.
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Re: Tab title redraw bug
Confirming that it's fixed in the latest beta.