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For some time now, and for some reason, certain themes seem to suffer from the same parse error when opening the Control Panel in Category view. Sometimes the CP can't even be opened at all if Category view was used in a previous theme. This seems to effect "Vista" rendered themes more than any other for some reason. Metal Vista 2.0, Aurora, Vista Aurora and a few others...at least for me.
However, I did stumble across something I'd like to pass on to those that create the themes, as well as the developers of WindowBlinds/SkinStudio.
Using another theme, I left the Control Panel open in Category view. Went to Windowblinds and selected the Vista Aurora 5365 theme and loaded it. Once it made the changes, the parse error popped up. However, I was unable to close the error nor change the Control Panel windows or close them.
So, using Task Manager, I forced the parse error to close which in turn brought down Explorer. In which case the shell had to restart. When it did this...it cured the parse error! For that particular theme, I have not tried it on any other as of yet.
Don't know how...and it still doesn't effect another theme should I load one with a known parse error (meaning, when I loaded Metal Vista 2.0, the parse error still remains). If I unload the 5365 theme now, and use another theme, then reload 5365 the parse error is still gone and the Control Panel works fine.
I hope that this information can help those who create these themes when people state they are having an issue with the Control Panel (which I am starting to wonder if it has anything to do with the bitmap parameters) or an issue within how WB renders the CP, or how SkinStudio creates the theme. I don't know, I am not a software guru..just hoping that this experience and information will help lead to the demise of the parse error!
However, I did stumble across something I'd like to pass on to those that create the themes, as well as the developers of WindowBlinds/SkinStudio.
Using another theme, I left the Control Panel open in Category view. Went to Windowblinds and selected the Vista Aurora 5365 theme and loaded it. Once it made the changes, the parse error popped up. However, I was unable to close the error nor change the Control Panel windows or close them.
So, using Task Manager, I forced the parse error to close which in turn brought down Explorer. In which case the shell had to restart. When it did this...it cured the parse error! For that particular theme, I have not tried it on any other as of yet.
Don't know how...and it still doesn't effect another theme should I load one with a known parse error (meaning, when I loaded Metal Vista 2.0, the parse error still remains). If I unload the 5365 theme now, and use another theme, then reload 5365 the parse error is still gone and the Control Panel works fine.
I hope that this information can help those who create these themes when people state they are having an issue with the Control Panel (which I am starting to wonder if it has anything to do with the bitmap parameters) or an issue within how WB renders the CP, or how SkinStudio creates the theme. I don't know, I am not a software guru..just hoping that this experience and information will help lead to the demise of the parse error!
