Vista peculiarities

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Sep 2 13:54:29 EDT 2007


On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:10:27 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> The second problem is not so easy to fix. The menubar has a pale blue
> background and nothing I can do will get rid of it or change it. The
> group is set to opaque and all it's colors are inherited. The color is
> associated with the group, not the indivdual buttons as it changes
> size if I change the group's margins.
> 
> I notice that the pale blue color is the same as the Vista standard
> menubar color but I would have assumed that Rev's menu bar system
> using a group of buttons would not be susceptible to this. If there is
> no way round this, then I guess I can make the group resize to the
> full width of the window. That would look better even if not what I
> wanted.

That pale blue color is applied by Rev because the group is defined as 
the menubar of the stack. That also gives you the roundRect rollovers 
and the Vista-specific hiliting of the menubar buttons. If you change 
it's name, or set the menubar of the stack to empty, the color 
background and the other accoutrements will go away. However, if this 
same stack is to work on a Mac, you will have the problem that the 
menubar will be displayed (since it's just a group), and won't slide 
up/resize the stack accordingly. 

> My final problem is that every now & then I click and Rev just shuts
> down. There is no crash dialog like on Mac, so I don't know what to
> report. Is there a way to get the crash logs on Vista?

Sort of - to find out what a program reported when it crashed, go to 
the Control Panel. If you haven't selected "Classic View" on the 
sidebar, click on "Security and Maintenance", then on "Problem Reports 
and Solutions". If you *do* have Classic View on, just double-click on 
the "Problem Reports and Solutions" control panel.

In either case, you can click on "See problems to check" on the 
sidebar, and then you'll get a list of problems with a "View 
Details..." link for each. Once you're viewing the details, you have a 
"Copy to clipboard" option if you need to put it into a file somewhere.

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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