Published on November 5, 2010 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

A new beta of WindowFX 4 is available on Impulse for Object Desktop subscribers.  WindowFX 4 is a new application which brings cool animations and functionality to the Windows interface.

This beta update includes:

  • Added new animations : expand / shrink to/from screen, slide from/to left, right, bottom, top and random
  • Added option to indicate to the user that the window flick they tried cannot be applied
  • Added flicks to move windows to monitor above / below
  • Modified flicks for moving monitors to move the window the correct amount
  • Tweaks for explorer not responding on shutdown
  • Fixed problem with close animation sometimes causing missing windows later
  • Fixed 'disco effect' on firefox minimizing when using darken inactive windows
  • Fixed bug with auto minimize impacting WindowFX config window if left open and active
  • Fixed inactive window transparency causing problems when a window is minimized and restored
  • Possible fix for problems with hibernation. If you're still having trouble, we need details on the settings enabled in WindowFX and if it happens with a quick laptop cover shut, or if there are additional repro steps.
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on Nov 08, 2010

With the exception of the laptop resume from suspend and the high dpi animations tab issue, has anyone else encountered any problems with beta 2?

on Nov 08, 2010

No I have not found aany other issues!

Nice work sir!!!

 

on Nov 09, 2010

nope. Very good work. Indeed the resume does crash my displaydriver (nvidia) if i leave Winfx enabled before sleep. Weirdly the longer it sleeps the longer it takes to resume from sleep If i just do sleep/reusme immediately alll's is well. If i wait an hour or so it takes 30 seconds to resume, if i leave it overnight it takes several minutes.

on Nov 09, 2010

I'm still consistently seeing the XP/Excel 2003 maximize crash I described in reply #45 here:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/399558/page/2/#replies

If it's Ancient App Syndrome that's fine, just didn't see anybody else say anything about it one way or another. (I also see it on Word 2002, ick - even older .  Haven't seen it on anything else, and haven't come across a WB skin that avoids it with FX loaded.)

on Nov 09, 2010

beta two works fine over here,thanks..waiting for more features

on Nov 09, 2010

Another interesting remote desktop oddity.

Run RD full screen.  Another window on the local workstation gets focus above the RD layer (an alert or similar).  WindowFX shake fails to affect the RD session.

on Nov 09, 2010

No bug but a possible request:

Neil is it possible to have tray access to enable or disable?

Also one other idea allow users to set everything and save as a user profile limit it to 4 stored profiles then a right click from tray could give you

  • *Enable                
  • *Disable        r      
  • *(Profile Name 1)
  • *(Profile Name 2)
  • *(Profile Name 3)
  • *(Profile Name 4)

Just an idea!!!

on Nov 09, 2010

theAVMAN

Neil is it possible to have tray access to enable or disable?
That would be nice.

on Nov 09, 2010

re: #30

Thanks Neil. Except for the wake up issue it's really very cool.  I'm looking forward to the fix.

on Nov 09, 2010

I do the oddest things I guess.

I haev teh inactive windows set to dim.

Running a java app that spawns new windows.  One of the child windows had focus.  The parent window has mouseover effects though.

Also, if the parent window has focus the children also have focus.  If one of the children has focus, the parent and other child windows loss focus

Video:
http://screencast.com/t/EtChQSUjIom

on Nov 09, 2010

Okay, this is a great version... just one request though. If I "make windows under the active window darken to draw attention to the window with focus" in the "Inactive windows" tab then also the destop is darkened if I have programs running while everything is minimized. If all programs running are minimized I would like the desktop not to be darkened (there is no windows having focus at that moment, so darkening the desktop has no use).

Martin

on Nov 10, 2010

What I would really like to see in this already great program is a slider for each animation to individually adjust animation speeds. Also, another great minimize/restore animation would be to have the window appear to twist around/flip over on the vertical axis as it moves to/from the taskbar.

 

Most issues with the first beta seem to be resolved on my system, yet I am still having to restart my laptop after it it goes into hibernation, as it doesn't come out of this state properly with WindowFX 4 enabled. I would be happy to just disable the program to avoid the problem, but every time I do, then click on anything on the startmenu/taskbar, it crashes windows explorer and I have to wait for it to restart.

on Nov 14, 2010

Neil Just wanted to give you an update .

Since the update no problems coming out of sleep mode Win 7 64bit Laptop!

Thaanks man!!

on Nov 17, 2010

On XPP SP3, ATI Radeon X1300PRO.  Background dimming and inactive window trans enabled.  No transitions enabled.  Current Windowblinds beta running.

Getting single bright flicker of dimmed parent window when mouse-over tooltip appears in child window.  No such flicker when tooltips appear over SysTray or QL tray items or TaskBar buttons.  Also getting a lot of brief transition video artifacts/black areas when moving from window to window.  Portion of taskbar right-click menu overlying the taskbar disappears after about 10 seconds (I know - who leaves the taskbar right-click menu active for 10 seconds? It was an accident.).  Annoying/bothersome enough behavior that I've disabled WFX.  Very cool features which I would definitely use if they were smooth/seamless.

FWIW.  I know it's a 'Jurassic' rig.

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