WindowFX 4 Beta Has Arrived!

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

Comments (Page 4)

Wizard1956

on Oct 29, 2010

Win7/64

WFX settings; Custom Min/ Shrink Custom Restore/Expand

Inactive windows set to make transparent.

Two or more windows on the desktop.

When restoring a window from the taskbar, it remains transparent when clicked on even while dragging it. One of the inactive windows has to be clicked to get a solid window, or click on the desktop, then you can click on the window restored from the taskbar to make it solid. Hopefully some of that made sense.

On the desktop, it changes focus from window to window correctly.

starkers

on Oct 29, 2010

I'm not seeing this app in Impulse. I have 'show pre-releases ticked and I have reset data, etc, but still it is not showing. My ObjectDesktop sub is current to Feb 2011, so it's not that, either.

Strange!

RedneckDude

on Oct 29, 2010

starkers

reply 47

I'm not seeing this app in Impulse. I have 'show pre-releases ticked and I have reset data, etc, but still it is not showing. My ObjectDesktop sub is current to Feb 2011, so it's not that, either.

Strange!

Do you have non installed apps hidden?

Wizard1956

on Oct 29, 2010

starkers

reply 47

Do you have non-installed apps hidden(View tab, uncheck hide) or WFX hidden?(blue button, select show)

Edit: Beat by seconds by the Rednecked One.

starkers

on Oct 29, 2010

Do you have non installed apps hidden?

Do you have non-installed apps hidden(View tab, uncheck hide) or WFX hidden?(blue button, select show)

Yup, that was it orright.... thanks, guys.

starkers is so old... he doesn't remember hiding non-installed apps.

RedneckDude

on Oct 29, 2010

starkers is so old... he doesn't remember hiding non-installed apps.

Wrong thread.......damn, you are old, huh?

starkers

on Oct 29, 2010

Wrong thread.......damn, you are old, huh?

Yup... I have CRAFT disease, Can't Remember A Flamin' Thing.

PurrBall

on Oct 29, 2010

The "flick" options screen could be a little cleaner, instead of saying "to the left" at the end of each option, could each dropdown be titled "Left" "Right" etc?

Daiwa

on Oct 29, 2010

I was just missing a portion of my brain. Problem solved.

Daiwa

on Oct 29, 2010

Same - I was just missing part of my brain as above. Sorry 'bout that.

Aleatoric

on Oct 30, 2010

Here's an issue I'm seeing. On a laptop, set to sleep when closing the lid, it fails to wake up when WFX4 is enabled (no issue when not enabled). The effects work fine while the computer is active, but when I close the lid (and put it to sleep), it does nothing when the lid is opened (have to reboot to get the system to work again). Just a possible issue

Fuzzy Logic

on Oct 30, 2010

W7 64 - getting issues on shutdown with windows coming up with a message about closing explorer. It does it every time so FX is disabled for now.

starkers

on Oct 30, 2010

W7 64 - getting issues on shutdown with windows coming up with a message about closing explorer. It does it every time so FX is disabled for now.

Not seeing that on my Win 7 x64 rig.

Phoon

on Oct 30, 2010

Neil,

I could not reproduce my issue with Outlook 2010. I was on a different machine however so it may or may not be relavant information.

RedneckDude

on Oct 30, 2010

I reported the failure of Firefox to return from minimized state. Well, I also had this:

I was updating Windows Live 2011 and at one point it minimizes itself, it never returned so I moused over it and could see that it was waiting for me to make a choice, but I couldn't get it to restore so I could make that choice.

So there is definitely a problem with things returning from minimization. I killed WinFX, restarted the install, no problems.

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