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Is it possible for the GUI to be updated?

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #30 on Tue 27 Jan 2009 09:04 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 27 Jan 2009 09:05 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Screenshot of MUSHclient with the MUSHclient.exe.manifest file as described in the earlier post:

- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #31 on Tue 27 Jan 2009 09:07 PM (UTC)
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Note that using this updated looks seems to introduce some graphical glitches, particular in the tabbed windows (if you are using tabs) and the toolbars. I am not sure the exact reason for that, possibly some hard-coded values in toolbar sizes do not take into account the different look.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #32 on Tue 27 Jan 2009 10:29 PM (UTC)
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The glitches look like this (circled):

There are also other places that look a bit strange, like the "tip of the day" dialog.

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #33 on Tue 27 Jan 2009 10:31 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 27 Jan 2009 10:32 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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If you want to try the manifest file, download this file and put in the same directory as MUSHclient.exe:

http://mushclient.com/mushclient/MUSHclient.exe.manifest

Then restart MUSHclient. It should work with any version, providing you are using Windows XP (I don't know about Vista).

Make sure the file name after downloading is "MUSHclient.exe.manifest" (without the quotes) and that your web browser has not added some suffix to it.
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Shadowfyr   USA  (1,790 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #34 on Wed 28 Jan 2009 04:33 PM (UTC)
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Hmm. Actually, looks to me like your "glitch", may be the updated look trying to display text that it doesn't have room for, which the original bar didn't. It may be some sort of "default" text, like the window ID, or something, which needs to be blanked, to get rid of the problem. One of the annoyances of "updated" GUIs is that they can do things that the prior ones didn't, and if you don't know what, you can end up with them doing them anyway, even when you didn't ask. :p
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Posted by Curious2   (47 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #35 on Sun 01 Feb 2009 04:30 AM (UTC)

Amended on Sun 01 Feb 2009 08:44 AM (UTC) by Curious2

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No I have those glitches too. It's the gripper handle on the gripper toolbar doesn't refresh correctly (the part circled in the pic). If you move the bar around, then place it back it appears correct. However, if you open the editor then close it the glitch appears again as if part of the editor is stuck to that spot. For example, after I closed the editor that area turned into a fragmented blue shape. The same thing at the bottom of that pic is happening too. Whatever is on the screen before you switch to Mush will appear in those spots. Like right now my browser graphics show there when I switch back and forth and the toolbar on my browser is black so they appear black. I can even see part of the little Mushclient logo from the tab on my browser.

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Posted by Curious2   (47 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #36 on Sun 01 Feb 2009 05:02 AM (UTC)

Amended on Sun 01 Feb 2009 05:04 AM (UTC) by Curious2

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Ok this seems to have messed up some other stuff.

I'm working in both Mush and Cmud clients.

I was testing a fix from another thread and my screen is not updating correctly.

This appeared on the screen in Cmud after I closed my editor...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/amphibian/Screenupdate.png

How do you add images? The [img] tag doesn't work.

You can still see the editor there.

Not sure if they are related, but it didn't do that before now.
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Posted by Curious2   (47 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #37 on Sun 01 Feb 2009 08:41 AM (UTC)
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Here is the problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843490

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #38 on Mon 02 Feb 2009 12:14 AM (UTC)
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How do you add images? The [img] tag doesn't work.


You don't. Only forum administrators can post images. This is designed to stop inappropriate images being posted, and also lengthy download times if large images are posted.

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This appeared on the screen in Cmud after I closed my editor...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/amphibian/Screenupdate.png


I can't really see much in that image - it is very small. Are you saying that after adding the XP themes to MUSHclient, then cMUD stops working properly? That sounds very strange.



- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Shadowfyr   USA  (1,790 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #39 on Mon 02 Feb 2009 07:54 PM (UTC)
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Hmm. I thought he meant that its a known bug with the control, and that "any" application using the control would suffer the same fate, which is why it appears in cMud too.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #40 on Tue 03 Feb 2009 08:39 AM (UTC)
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Quote:

Here is the problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843490


Thanks! I always like it when someone does the research for the problem. I'll look into it.
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #41 on Sat 14 Feb 2009 02:22 AM (UTC)
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Fixed in version 4.38.
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #42 on Fri 24 Sep 2010 12:14 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 24 Sep 2010 12:15 PM (UTC) by Worstje

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Nick Gammon said:

There are also other places that look a bit strange, like the "tip of the day" dialog.


Right now, I am focusing on tackling the various graphical glitches I experience using MUSHclient, among them being 'proper' support for visual styles that does not have a lot of small artifacts of age showing through.

I created a theming branch on github, and have already fixed the bug regarding the notorious "tip of the day" dialog.

When testing without theming nothing seems to have broken either. To my knowledge, this problem was the final 'breaking' glitch that hampered usability - all others are purely cosmetic in nature. May I request testing and, assuming there are no issues, to have support for visual styles turned on by default?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #43 on Fri 24 Sep 2010 09:56 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 24 Sep 2010 09:57 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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OK testing it is...

First, while the Tip Of The Day looks better, now I get this:




Second, with the suggested pragmas there I get:


accelerators.obj : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"; ignored
ActivityDoc.obj : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"; ignored
ansi.obj : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"; ignored
art.obj : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"; ignored
chatlistensock.obj : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option "manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"; ignored
...


308 Warnings.

Any suggestions, apart from simply suppressing them?

It appears to look good apart from that.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Worstje   Netherlands  (899 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #44 on Fri 24 Sep 2010 10:05 PM (UTC)
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I'll look into the proper compiler ifdefs, I am not sure which compiler introduced that flag however so it might take some figuring out.

Regarding the other glitch - weird, I am not getting that drawing glitch of the checkbox on Windows 7, making it kinda hard to test against that. I have however seen it mentioned elsewhere... let me see if I can remember where.
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