Mouse over Menu makes it thicker

[sangwooksohn]

I believe I have found a bug.
When I move my mouse pointer over the menu (not click to select, but just to move the mouse pointer over the menu), that particular menu(s) displays little thicker. It gets thicker and thicker as I move over the mouse point again and again.
However, when I left-click to select the menu, that particular menu returns back to normal.

Here's the screenshot for better understanding.

Image: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6543/tcmdroo0.gif

And I am using TC 7.0pb1 on Windows XP x64 w/ Korean MUI and changing font doesn't help.

[petermad]

That must be an x64 thing - nothing like that here with 32bit XP.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I cannot confirm this problem with the default theme. What XP theme are you using?

[sangwooksohn]

I am using Royale theme from Microsoft, but I have modified a bit.
If it helps, I will send you an email attaching my theme.

[StickyNomad]

2sangwooksohn

What about other themes? Does the same behaviour occur when you use Luna or classic theme on your system? If not, I'd bet on a bug in your theme...

[ghisler(Author)]

2sangwooksohn
It could be because of the used cleartype font. Apparently Windows doesn't clear the menu item background before redrawing.

What you can try is to disable the XP style background in Configuration - Options - Layout.

[sangwooksohn]

2StickyNomad

Thanks for the comment. As you suggested, I changed the theme, but it didn't help.


2ghisler

Yes, indeed. It is the ClearType issue. As soon as I turned off the ClearType feature, menu displayed properly.
But what's weird is that with TC 6.55a, menu displays just fine even with ClearType feature turned on.

Thanks.


Sang

[constantin]

I have a same problem. I use a standard olive scheme. I use two LCD monitors with enabled cleartype. Other programs working correctly

[ghisler(Author)]

Did you try to turn off the XP style background in Configuration - Options - Layout as I suggested above?

[SanskritFritz]

I have the same problem. I did try to turn off the option you suggested, after a TC restart it helped.

[ghisler(Author)]

So apparently there is a bug in Microsoft's implementation of menu bar backgrounds with Cleartype fonts. I don't see any solution how to fix that, the menu bar is outside of my influence.

[sangwooksohn]

Hmm, that is very strange.
As I mentioned above, TC 6.55a and prior versions do not have such problem. And as well as other software I have installed on my system.

[Flint]

As I mentioned above, TC 6.55a and prior versions do not have such problem.

In 6.55 and before there was no XP-themed background in the menu bar.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes indeed - it must be a problem with the drawing of a themed menu bar background. Now I only need to find out whether cleartype is on or off, so I can turn off the theming...

[sangwooksohn]

Yes unchecking "Windows XP theme background (menu+all bars) solves the problem, even with ClearType on.