Published on October 28, 2010 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

The long awaited beta for WindowFX 4 has arrived today, and users with an active Object Desktop subscription can download the beta via Impulse.  This is a completely new app with a new direction from what you might have experienced with previous versions.

The beta includes:

  • Custom animations for window open/close/minimize/restore
  • Enhanced window resizing options when dragging to screen edges
  • Eliminate distractions by drawing attention to the foreground window
  • Enable window momentum when moving windows
  • Window Flick mouse actions to customize window movement, maximizing, and monitor location
  • Allow Flash videos to run full-screen on one monitor (on a multi-monitor system)
  • Semi-transparent windows when inactive or moving a window
  • Keep a clean desktop by automatically minimizing inactive windows after a configurable period
  • Extend right-click window menus with additional features including custom maximized window sizes and always-on-top visibility settings

We will be talking a lot more about the features soon, so keep an eye out for those articles.  It’s not too late to get your Object Desktop subscription and check out not only WindowFX 4, but full versions of our other desktop enhancement apps like WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes, and more!

www.objectdesktop.com

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on Oct 29, 2010

When I reposition a window in Photoshop, it minimizes the window and it won't come back.

on Oct 29, 2010

Will there be a bug report thread?

on Oct 29, 2010

Had some weired issues with Outlook 2007. When I would try to reply to an email or start a new email the window for it would not be visible. I could go to the taskbar and see that it had opened a new window for the reply or new mail. On the taskbar preview i right-clicked and selected move then hit my left arrow key. I could see that it was moving a window but that window was not visible.

Had to un-install WindowFX. Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.

on Oct 29, 2010

Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.
Disabling it still leaves at least two processes running. (something that needs fixed)Could that be why?

on Oct 29, 2010

Had some weired issues with Outlook 2007. When I would try to reply to an email or start a new email the window for it would not be visible. I could go to the taskbar and see that it had opened a new window for the reply or new mail. On the taskbar preview i right-clicked and selected move then hit my left arrow key. I could see that it was moving a window but that window was not visible.

Had to un-install WindowFX. Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.

It sounds like there was an issue with animations and turning them off and then closing and reopening outlook would have resolved it.

on Oct 29, 2010

Wizard1956

Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.Disabling it still leaves at least two processes running. (something that needs fixed)Could that be why?

This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.

on Oct 29, 2010

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.
That is good to know, but why leave unnecessary processes running?

 Consider this more of a request than an actual bug.

I like to keep running processes and services in check. It would be nice if "Disabled"  meant completely unloaded.

 

on Oct 29, 2010

RedneckDude
When I reposition a window in Photoshop, it minimizes the window and it won't come back.

Same with Firefox...it won't restore from minimized state. And as a side note, ever since installing WinFX, it takes 21 seconds from the time I right click the desktop to the time I get a context menu.

on Oct 29, 2010

I agree with reply 22.

on Oct 29, 2010

This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.

If that were true then disabling would have solved the issue, and yes I had restarted outlook after disabling it.

on Oct 29, 2010


This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.


If that were true then disabling would have solved the issue, and yes I had restarted outlook after disabling it.

When the app is disabled the app is disabled.  It cannot have any impact on any applications opened after it was disabled.

on Oct 29, 2010

RedneckDude



Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 16
When I reposition a window in Photoshop, it minimizes the window and it won't come back.



Same with Firefox...it won't restore from minimized state. And as a side note, ever since installing WinFX, it takes 21 seconds from the time I right click the desktop to the time I get a context menu.

That sounds unexpected.  WindowFX doesn't do anything with that menu.  Does this continue if you disable the right click menu features in WindowFX?

on Oct 29, 2010

When the app is disabled the app is disabled. It cannot have any impact on any applications opened after it was disabled.

Just telling you what it did. Disabling the app did NOT solve the problem. Uninstallation solved the problem.

Guess I'll just leave it uninstalled so I have a fully functional PC.

on Oct 29, 2010


When the app is disabled the app is disabled. It cannot have any impact on any applications opened after it was disabled.


Just telling you what it did. Disabling the app did NOT solve the problem. Uninstallation solved the problem.

Guess I'll just leave it uninstalled so I have a fully functional PC.

Well this is beta software so if you are not comfortable with beta software when I would always advise only using the final release versions.

However I must repeat what I said earlier.  If the application is disabled (as in you open the app up the the enable button is enabled and the disable button is disabled) then the application is having no impact on other processes.  The processes remaining are simply there to avoid issues caused by the Vista / 7 UAC.

on Oct 29, 2010

Wizard1956

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.That is good to know, but why leave unnecessary processes running?


 Consider this more of a request than an actual bug.

I like to keep running processes and services in check. It would be nice if "Disabled"  meant completely unloaded.

 

Unfortunately that would require the process to elevate itself in order to disable the processes and likewise elevate to turn itself on.  Generally speaking this isn't exactly user friendly and the processes have been designed to use as little memory as possible.  Throw in the possibility of multiple users who may or may not want the app and you end up needing at least one process at all times - the service.

Thats not to say we will not look into the possibility of it shutting down one of the additional processes if it proves viable without producing a poor user experience.

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