Ugly tab container shows up behind panels

[now]

Please see the picture here:

http://flickr.com/photos/68553805@N00/285553800/

for an explanation and a picture of the problem. Simply put, the tab container shows up behind the panels when tabs are shown. It's really distracting and looks unprofessional. This alignment problem has been around since tabs where introduced, so perhaps it's not fixable, or perhaps no one has bothered to report it, or perhaps it only happens with my setup?

nikolai

[petermad]

perhaps it only happens with my setup?

That must be it - I have seen many screenshots of different TC's with tabs - and I have never seen this - not on any of my own computers either. Are you using some exsotic video card?

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately the tab container cannot be hidden. What would you suggest?

[now]

I don't have a weird graphics card, and I can reproduce this on four different computers with different setups, different graphics cards, different window layouts, different screen sizes, different window themes, different configuration files (even with the defaults). I assume that the listbox and statusbar label more or less paint themselves /over/ the tab container, but that the size-calculation routine doesn't get it quite right and misses by one or two pixels on either side. On the screenshot the listbox is fine on the left side but is off by two pixels on the right, and also two pixels too short, i.e., the bottom of the container shows. The statusbar, not displayed in the picture, when activated, renders one pixel too far to the right on the left side but and is also off by two pixels on the right, but manages to cover upp the bottom of the container.

I use the following fonts:

Verdana, 7
Tahoma, 8
Tahoma, 8

I've tried resizing the window to different sizes, i.e., even and odd sizes in either direction, but it doesn't change anything.

[nuncio]

Hi,

I've just observed the same behaviour in my copy of TC7pb2. The weird dots on the edges of the panels (both) appeared when the window underneath TC was refreshing. I activated TC's window, and for a split of the second when TC's window have been redrawed, the edges looked like being transparent. Then they 'freezed' their contents, so as even resizing TC's window doesnt redraw the area. Only switching to another tab gets this cleaned.

Thomas

[now]

Just realized that flickr doesn't give you the proper links if your not logged in. Here's a better view:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=285553800&size=o

or

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/285553800_967722b9c2_o.png

if that doesn't work.

As you can see, under my conditions the panes are two pixels short in both x and y directions. I'd really love it if something was done about this, because it really is annoying to see them all day.

Thanks!

nikolai[/url]

[ghisler(Author)]

What Windows theme do you use?

[now]

A theme called Clearlooks. Yes, I realize that these things may differ somewhat with theme, but as far as I can tell, there's similar behavior for the Windows classic theme as well. Perhaps this is intended, now that I think about it. But for me, I'd have thought that regardless of whether tabs are showing, the border around a panel should be the same, i.e., no border at all.

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=390385272&size=o

or

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/390385272_d05f5275ac_o.png

You can see that there's a border around the panels.

Intentional?