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I don't know if anyone can help me with this, but I just developed a strange problem with some (not all) of my sub menus. Particularly, it seems, with the ones that have sliders to adjust something. They're blank. Nothing shows but the slider itself, but no writing at all!

I've changed fonts, changed Windowblinds style, transparency, everything I can think of.

Any ideas?

BTW, I deleted some fonts a couple weeks ago, the ones I never use. Could that have something to do with it? I hope not because they're gone..... <X3

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Xiandi, reply 20
It does this on all the blinds in my inventory except the Aero ones, which is why I was thinking it was a Winstep issue. (shrugs)

 

If so, it should appear in Winstep forums. Perhaps pming WebGizmos to check the skin settings might help? or  an email to JcRabbit in the Winstep Support at Winstep.net site? It might be a font issue that's skin specific?

If so, going to the theme config window in nextStart and trying to change font with the "customize" button under "Themes" and "KnotVista" theme might help?

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 15
Nexus Dock, advanced fluid  surface settings, I just checked it with a few blinds, all ok.

Quoting Xiandi, reply 20
It does this on all the blinds in my inventory except the Aero ones, which is why I was thinking it was a Winstep issue. (shrugs)

 

 

I tried Aero and the text is there OK, just not on any other Windowblinds!!

Now what does that mean?

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 25
Open Impulse (if you still have it) and go to your software tab. Right click on WB7 while holding down shift and select Verify Installation. If WB is not installed correctly, reinstall it from your registrations page. (it won't update through Impulse.) If it IS installed correctly, have you recently updated Winstep?
That fixed it! And it did update right from Impulse.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wiz, I checked and it appears to be installed correctly. And I only just downloaded the free version of Winstep that I got from this site a couple days ago.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

MG, I updated to the beta of WB and it fixed it. Then I went back to the non beta and it still is fixed.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Xiandi, reply 28



Quoting Wizard1956,
reply 25
Open Impulse (if you still have it) and go to your software tab. Right click on WB7 while holding down shift and select Verify Installation. If WB is not installed correctly, reinstall it from your registrations page. (it won't update through Impulse.) If it IS installed correctly, have you recently updated Winstep?That fixed it! And it did update right from Impulse.

Good deal, I'm glad that worked for you.  I never had any luck updating through Impulse, it still says ODplus2 isn't installed correctly but Nexus is what I use now anyway.

MG, I'd try what Xiandi did first and if that doesn't help, maybe you should uninstall Winstep, run CCleaner and reinstall it.

 

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I went back and checked the install again, and this time it said it WASN'T installed right and that there was an update available. So I updated, but I haven't looked to see what all has changed except now this forum is in a different font!  :rofl:

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Isn't technology wonderful?o_O

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I checked everything over and it's all fixed. I got text on my menus, the color is right and except for the text on here, everything seems fine! Funny how an update on Windowblinds changed it all.

I want to thank all of you so much for the help in tracking this down and the lesson on adding pictures to this site!

And Doc, I'm still going to run that scan, just to make sure all is right.  :grin:

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Xiandi, reply 28

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 25Open Impulse (if you still have it) and go to your software tab. Right click on WB7 while holding down shift and select Verify Installation. If WB is not installed correctly, reinstall it from your registrations page. (it won't update through Impulse.) If it IS installed correctly, have you recently updated Winstep? That fixed it! And it did update right from Impulse.

Do you use Thunderbird, Cyndie. On Friday, I.D. notified on 7.02d WB update for folks using Thunderbird because some fixes were needed.

Quoting MouseGoddess, reply 34
I checked everything over and it's all fixed. I got text on my menus, the color is right and except for the text on here, everything seems fine! Funny how an update on Windowblinds changed it all.

I want to thank all of you so much for the help in tracking this down and the lesson on adding pictures to this site!

And Doc, I'm still going to run that scan, just to make sure all is right. 

I did one just now and several files were fixed which had become corrupted. I do one once a month since it takes all of 10 minutes. Also, it fixes ONLY Windows System files... of which your fonts is one.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry for only replying now, was away for the weekend with no Internet access (yay!). :)

Glad to see the WB update fixed it. Dialogs with sliders in Winstep preference screens are indeed handled in a special way because slider controls have a non-transparent background color and the dialog needs to be sub-classed for the white background to show instead. This must have caused some weird interaction with WB.

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I blame Jorge. ;)

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, I blame him too! :-P

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 36
Do you use Thunderbird, Cyndie. On Friday, I.D. notified on 7.02d WB update for folks using Thunderbird because some fixes were needed.
Nope, that's why I didn't bother with the update until now.

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Doc, I ran the scan and it said it found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. What do I do in a case like that? Or is there anything I can do?

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bit late to the conversation but....

Never simply 'delete fonts'.  There is no harm having them and not using them, but the converse does not apply.

When Impulse was about to be released I discovered it simply would NOT install for me at all.  Nothing worked, which was quite odd to say the least.  The 'fault' was solved by some error-handling code added to Impulse so my particular issue could be ignored and the install continue normally.

The fault?  An unexpected font VERSION [wasn't even missing...just wasn't the default one]...;)