WB Update broke the Win7 expander button

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Since today's update, the Win7 tray expand (show hidden items?) button no longer centers itself on the taskbar when using small icons. I gets pushed down to the bottom edge.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I also noticed that since the update, the selected item color is no longer showing when mousing over pop up menus on firefox and the IE8 favorites menu. The text color changes like it should, but there is no mouseover color block.

 

In fact it looks like the IE8 fav menu background color is now the button face color. I could swear it was pulling it from menu color before, though I could be wrong. :\

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The IE8/Firefox issue should be sorted with the current build.

Impulse should be showing a new update now.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The IE8/Firefox issue should be sorted with the current build.

Impulse should be showing a new update now.
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Firefox is fine now. Thanks, Neil.

Here's what I get on the IE8 favorites menu:

 

The white lines are the button face color

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Which skin are you using?

I tried here with a couple of skins and the expander is doing what it always has done.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top



I tried here with a couple of skins and the expander is doing what it always has done.
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As have I......I'm gonna guess that on the skins you tried, the author didn't skinned that button. In that case WB uses the Xp/vista tray expander.

 

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 2of3, reply 6



I tried here with a couple of skins and the expander is doing what it always has done.


As have I......I'm gonna guess that on the skins you tried, the author didn't skinned that button. In that case WB uses the Xp/vista tray expander.

 

 
End of 2of3's quote

If a skin uses the Windows 7 expander button vs the XP/Vista ones then the normal behaviour wouldn't be to centre it.  Only the XP/Vista ones centre.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So are you saying that I need to do the button so it sits high on the taskbar in order to accomodate both large and small icons?

 

And why did it work yesterday? That button used to center itself.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

And why did it work yesterday? That button used to center itself.
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It turns out that I'm whack-o.

 

I have confirmed that the button never centered itself on the previous build (tested with someone who hadn't updated his WB today) and I'm sorry for wasting your time, Neil.

 

I still maintain that it should though......because I can't imagine that it would look good on many blinds riding high on the taskbar. Oh well. When unskinned, I get the vista button which gets me the result I want.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I noticed yesterday, on Win 7 using the non Win 7 Expander, on vertical taskbar, the normal tray extender is not centered and no states work.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting vStyler, reply 10
I noticed yesterday, on Win 7 using the non Win 7 Expander, on vertical taskbar, the normal tray extender is not centered and no states work.
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That would also be normal.

We cannot centre that on vertical taskbars.  This is an OS limitation.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ok Neil thanks :)