Mouse over Menu makes it thicker

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce this error with Standard Olive theme and cleartype turned on.

When I move the cursor over the menu, the background of the active item gets a completely different color, which causes the displayed text to be redrawn completely.

Do you really use the standard Olive XP theme, or did you make some color changes?

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce this error. I tried with default Luna theme. Can anyone who has this bug make a video of it, please?

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
I would really like to help here but I cannot reproduce this errot with many themes.

- Did you receive the modfified Royale theme from the user who reported the bug?

- Maybe it's graphics card/driver related?

[ghisler(Author)]

It must be a special theme color setting where the menu item is NOT shown with highlighted background color as with normal themes.

- Did you receive the modfified Royale theme from the user who reported the bug?

No, unfortunately not.

[sangwooksohn]

ghisler,

Sorry I thought this bug was something Microsoft had to do about.
Anyway, I can still reproduce this issue with TC7pb2.

Image: http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8947/tcmdr7pb2jo5.jpg

In case you need my theme I am having trouble with, I have sent you an email (support[at]ghisler[dot]com) attaching my theme.
Thanks.


Sang

[HolgerK]

Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce this error. I tried with default Luna theme. Can anyone who has this bug make a video of it, please?

This seems to be an issue related with "MSTweakUIXP->General->Enable mouse hot tracking effects"!

Download Video (rar 261k(i)Byte).

Pay attention: On one (virgin) machine this effect was not visible for the first time, until I switched this setting once off and on again.

WinXP de+eng SP2 / both computer with nVidia graphic.

HTH
Holger

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks very much!

[HolgerK]

Finally I found a way to turn the bug on an off again, regardless of what theme is used.
"Enable mouse hot tracking effects" is necessary, but not the only condition!

1. open "Desktop->Properties->Design"
2. select "Windows XP"
3. Apply:
-> TC shows the main menu bar without any error!

4. "Desktop->Properties->Design->Save" as "Buggy theme"
5. select once again "Windows XP" without Applying!
6. select "Buggy theme"
7. Apply:
-> TC shows a fuzzy main menu bar while mouse hovers the menu!

On remark at this point: TC 6.55 and even Notepad.exe are showing a strange behavior in this state too:
Instead of the blue hover back color, the main menu background is drawn in white!

8. Under "Desktop->Properties->Representation" select "olive" as
color scheme, and before applying revert to "blue"
9. Apply or Close the dialog:
-> TC 7 (and 6.55 and Notepad.exe) acts normal, while the main menu is hovered by the mouse!

I hope this reproducible with other Windows XP machines.

So this seems to be definitely a bug in Windows XP, and not a bug inside TC.

Kind regards
Holger

[ghisler(Author)]

2HolgerK
Thanks for the additional info!

2sangwooksohn
Did you try to send me again the theme causing the problem? Unfortunately I didn't receive anything. Can this theme be downloaded anywhere?

[sangwooksohn]

Ghisler,

Yes I did send you the theme files in a zip file format.
It's very strange, since I that particular email that I have sent you in my sent mail box in my email account.
Anyway, the theme file is called 'Zune', but modified one.
Thanks.

sang

[sangwooksohn]

Ghisler,

I just sent you another email with attachment using my different email account. I hope it goes well this time.
Thanks.


Sang

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks, I could now reproduce it! It's indeed a bug in Windows, similar to the one described here:

google groups

[HolgerK]

06.12.06 Fixed: Workaround to Windows XP menu bar drawing bug when cleartype is on and a theme background is used with a non-standard theme: make all menu bar items completely owner-drawn

Confirmed here!
Thanks for fixing this bug.
Holger