Layout/Skin/Skinning engine bugs?

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Layout/Skin/Skinning engine bugs?

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I'm not sure if it's related to the skinning engine, or only to the Vision skin itself, but here are some bugs I have encountered:
1.
If you manually stretch the window to fit the screen like this:
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when you maximize the window, it shrinks horizontally like this:
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But if, before maximizing, you shrink the window vertically or horizontally:
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the resulting maximized window fills the whole screen space just fine:
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2.
When the window is maximized, title "Mediamonkey" gets transparent and you can see your desktop background through it:
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3.
This bug may happen randomly, but the following example triggers it every time.
If you start Mediamonkey not maximized and then click on the Windows taskbar and then move your cursor over Mediamonkey, you get something like this:
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Re: Layout/Skin/Skinning engine bugs?

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You failed to mention your version of MediaMonkey.
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Lowlander wrote:You failed to mention your version of MediaMonkey.
Sorry. This is the case for both 4.0.7 and 4.1.0 versions.
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1) I can reproduce on 4.1.1: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=11964
2) I believe this is by design (Aero)
3) Seen on Windows 7?
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2)But judging by the "settings.ini" of the Vision skin, Aero should be disabled:

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[System]
ForceDisableAero=1
3)Yes. Both x86 and x64.
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2&3) Can't test as I don't have it. I was used to seeing this line on XP, but haven't seen it in a long time.
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Lowlander wrote:2&3) Can't test as I don't have it. I was used to seeing this line on XP, but haven't seen it in a long time.
The line only appears when the window is not maximized. Also I have close to no idea what triggers it. The example in the first post is the best method I found to replicate it. Other times it appears randomly and goes away the moment you click on the Mediamonkey window. Might be something to do with window focus.
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I am unable to see anything different in your screenshots could you circle the issues and explain a little more, I'm having to view these on my phone. Now, but it looks like its windows and not skinning engine, that's why I'm needing more details.
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rovingcowboy wrote:I am unable to see anything different in your screenshots could you circle the issues and explain a little more, I'm having to view these on my phone. Now, but it looks like its windows and not skinning engine, that's why I'm needing more details.
Well, what information do you need?

If you're talking about the issue #3: after the steps I mentioned, there appears a white line across the whole window at the bottom of Title Bar (the one that has minimize, maximize and close buttons). The minimize, maximize and close buttons become something like white versions of themselves - sometimes entirely, sometimes only just the bottom half of them. Looks as though they're leftovers of some other (default maybe) skin that is under the Vision skin - that's why I thought it could have something to do with the skinning engine.

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The forum tends to cut off parts of big images so I made the screenshots on this page to be clickable previews. If you click on them (I believe the Opera Mobile/Mini mobile browsers have this function), it will open the bigger image.
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The line or whited out words has been around since mmw2, it seems to be a error with windows shell..

they have fixed it several times but it just comes back.
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rovingcowboy wrote:The line or whited out words has been around since mmw2, it seems to be a error with windows shell..

they have fixed it several times but it just comes back.
I just looked at the minimize/maximize/close buttons once again, and then it hit me: the white (or rather grey, if you don't look at them against a black background) versions of them are the minimize/maximize/close buttons as they look in the classic Windows theme (the one that was around at least since Windows 98). It's the only theme in Windows 7 simple enough that it can be manually adjusted in "Advanced appearance settings". So maybe the Mediamonkey skins that make changes to how the title bar looks somehow make use of the theme, and maybe that's where the problem lies?
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The line normally accompanied the unskinned buttons for me on XP, however I haven't seen this in a while.
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Another way to replicate the issue #3: open Tools > Options, then click on the Windows task bar, then hover your cursor over the options window. You should get something like seen in the screenshot:

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If after hovering your cursor over the options window, the line doesn't show, click on the task bar and hover your cursor over the options window again.

DO NOT CLICK ON THE OPTIONS WINDOW ITSELF WHILE YOU AT IT, OTHERWISE IT WON'T WORK.
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clicking the windows taskbar is telling me that it is for sure windows shell issue not mm's issue.
maybe that is why ms was tryin to get rid of the start button and taskbar in win 8 ? :-?
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rovingcowboy wrote:clicking the windows taskbar is telling me that it is for sure windows shell issue not mm's issue.
maybe that is why ms was tryin to get rid of the start button and taskbar in win 8 ? :-?
Well, I like to blame all the sins of the world on Microsoft, too (and in some cases I'm even right for doing so :wink: ), but...

If the problem was only in windows shell, then every other program that uses full skinning would have the same issue. But I've seen a lot of Windows 7-compatible programs that don't have this. And so far on my list Mediamonkey is the only one that does. For example: MusicBee has the caption buttons skinned by default, but no matter how many times I click on the task bar, there are no white lines whatsoever:
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Which, I believe, means that you can make properly working skinning engine in Windows 7 program. So, I guess, Mediamonkey skinning engine needs another look.
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