Bug Report: WB 6 strips frame from around DNS 9.5 toolbar.

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I have been experiencing an annnoying bug in the way WB 6 interacts with Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5's toolbar. In some skins, it displays perfectly normally (e.g SoulLuna1, Ares, Brio). In others, the frame initially displays properly when the skin is loaded, but as soon as you click the start menu, the frame of the toolbar (if docked at the bottom of the screen) is overwritten by the start menu in that section, which makes it look ugly. If you move the bar, the frame then dissapears entirely (e.g. Harmony, 5imple Alpha, Adamant), and makes it look still uglier. In at least one, the frame never even displays to start with (can't remember which one).

I saw this first in Harmony, and contacted the author about it, but he had no idea what was going on, and he didn't have a copy of DNR to test with. In any case, I thought I had cured the problem when I completely disabled skinning on the toolbar. But not long after the problem reappeared. Since then I have identified four other skins that consistantly behave this way. According to Harmony's author (what's his name... John?) WB isn't even skinning that bar, although it does take the color settings set in the skins.

Has anyone else seen this? Any fixes?
windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
screen shots might help
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Here is a normal toolbar in as displayed in SouLuna:



Here is a stripped toolbar as disp[layed in Optix:



I find it rather interesting the only skins I am having problems with are ones that have been created or updated for WB 6.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I drove myself self crazy trying to figure this one out, looks like its not technically being skinned, just using the buttonface color, If a competent skinner with this app could take a look I would also appreciate it.

and yes.. Its John.   
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
John,

It looks like we're not getting any responses on this glitch. I am finding that if I completely exempt it from skinning, the problem appears to become intermitant, although I am not altogether certain it was intermitant to start with.