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strange background stripe

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Hey,

 

I have a strange black stripe, appearing in the background, if there is any other application or dock above the undermost of the screen.

 

It appears when I move the cursor over the dock and goes from the top of the topmost application (e.g. my cd art display or rainmeter picture show) straight to the undermost dock. its nearly transparent and as thick as the whole dock, when moving the cursor over it.

If there is only one dock or no other app, the stripe doesnt appear.

 

 

what to do in that case?

 

thx for helping,

 

Thomas

 

 

edit: sorry for false posting.

using ObjectDock Plus 2.0

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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's why I say it's a transparency conflict issue. You need to point this out to the folks at [email protected] .

Gute Nacht Tom...

Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hopefully he went to bed....

I threw everything he has on a test bed and still can't reproduce this.......


He either has a stuck .ini/script file loading or it's the monitor and I can't fathom it's that. Frankly, I've never seen anything like it that couldn't be fixed rather easily, but maybe Stardock support has. Since a zillion people use this stuff and he's the only unfortunate person that has this anomaly, I'm fairly certain it's not a Stardock app, but for my money:

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=42


http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_easyfaq&Itemid=26#faq1

 

 


yrag makes note to self to make sure Thomas gets this fixed.........

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Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No Nexus dock, OD set to no transparency , always on top. With a window with transparency(as in inactive using WFX)  above the lower edge of OD I get this when the focus goes from the window to the dock. Not every time and I don't know when it started as I don't use OD often anymore.

Reply #79 from WinCustomize Forums Top

he's the only unfortunate person that has this anomaly,
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Make that two of us.:grin:

Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Randy....tell us what's on your machine? OS, Card, rainmeter?  nVidia?

If WFX is disabled, do you still get that rectangle under any other circumstances?

Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I get this
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get what?

Never mind, I see it.... WFX does it for everyone and it's underneath the dock verus over. Thomas does not have WFX installed.

Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yrag knows all.......

but for the curious: Win7 Ultimate 64bit, 8800GT w/latest drivers, no rainy, sidebar off, Winstep off, only IE8 and OD2.0 on screen , WFX on, inactive window trans on, momentum on, shrink/minimize-expand/restore on.

I may have not noticed it at all if not for WFX, I apply transparency to the sidebar gadgets all the time and have never seen this.  DX widgets with trans. also have a shadow box, I'm trying some out now. Not a biggy to me, but worth reporting anyway.

Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yrag knows all.......
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....ain't that the fuckin' truth!!

 

see my edit in 81

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Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting yrag, reply 81

I get this


get what?
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Edit: Ok, you see what I mean. Call it a bug report and I'll move on now.;)

Thanks for the help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's getting deep in here.

Diagnosis: Too much crap screwing with Windows.

Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Forums double posting.

Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting yrag, reply 83

yrag knows all.......


....ain't that the fuckin' truth!!

 

see my edit in 81
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And, he's modest as hell!!   :P

Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 Anomalies aside, my avatar looks great!!! 

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Reply #89 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Call it a bug report
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It's a bug report

Thanks for the help.
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I'm here for ya Honey

Reply #90 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Anomalies don't quite cover it, apparantly. Dammit.

Reply #91 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I should add that it still does this with WFX disabled. Widgets with transparency applied have the shadow if a dock icon is moused over and bubble effect is applied on the dock....if they are above the bottom edge of the dock.

Reply #92 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Haven't seen that. Did it always do it, or just after you installed WFX?

Reply #93 from WinCustomize Forums Top

BTW: you should repost that pic in #84..... that was the best shot yet of this whatever it is bug.

Reply #94 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm not at all sure it's rainy. Maybe it's just a transparency issue and not tied to a specific app/app conflict. Whatcha think Yrag? Also not WFX/OD necessarily.

Reply #95 from WinCustomize Forums Top

OK, here you go.  I remembered seeing it  it once or twice then when I saw this thread, I decided to see if I could reproduce it. I haven't used OD much lately so I have no idea when it started. Bubble effect is what I normally have  set.

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Reply #96 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah.... it was the upper left/right of the pic I wanted to be seen.... the shadow is under the dock and over the weather/uptime widgets.

Reply #97 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder if Wiz and Uncle Tom also have Fences?

Yrag...the dock in Wiz's ss is NeXuS not OD.

Reply #98 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm not at all sure it's rainy. Maybe it's just a transparency issue and not tied to a specific app/app conflict. Whatcha think Yrag? Also not WFX/OD necessarily.
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After seeing Wiz's last pic, I'm not sure you're not right. It clearly affects other apps on the desktop. Bottom line.... it could be Windows 7.........o_O

Reply #99 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Indeed...I wanted you to think about that... or an incompatibility between a W7 update and these apps? I wonder also if Wiz moves his Nexus and takes transparancy out of the WFX...then mouses over will he still get those bars?

Might help to know when it all started.

Reply #100 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder also if Wiz moves his Nexus and takes transparancy out of the WFX
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Winstep off , WFX disabled. All I need is OD2.0 set to bubble effect and a widget with transparency set. Place it on screen above the lower edge of the dock then mouse over an icon. The dock shown in my ss is OD2.0, not Nexus;)