*On the other hand, there is already a known issue with Chrome and checkboxes or scrollbar arrows not appearing.**( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3543)* Which, in my opinion, probably relates to a core issue with the form controls implementation.
* *☆PhistucK On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 21:03, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Robert Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > If this was a DLL specific issue, wouldn't this problem occur in other > > applications as well? The fact that this issue does not exist in Firefox > 3 > > must mean this is an application-specific issue. > > No, it just means that Firefox doesn't trigger it. I've tried various > Windows theming products over the years, and in my experience they all > cause problems in some applications. WindowBlinds was pretty well > behaved the last time I tried it, but even it caused weird problems in > some applications. > > > I have no other way to apply visual themes in MS Windows. > > I understand--but since Windows does not support an API for theme > switching, it all depends on how well the theme switcher authors have > reverse engineered internal Windows interfaces. It's hard to get this > perfect. > > > In addition, this only occurs on certain google websites. For example, > edit > > boxes draw fine in GMail (The search edit box at the top) while the edit > > boxes when creating a new post on the google group page for this group do > > not. Can you explain this very specific behavior? > > Not off hand--both work fine on my unpatched Windows boxes... > > > Also keep in mind that not everyone who uses Chromium has the knowledge > nor > > the time to develop it. The best I can do for the community is report the > > issue and hope that it gets backlogged and hopefully fixed in the future. > > That's fine. I was just trying to set realistic expectations; getting > it fixed may have to wait until someone who runs a patched system can > take the time to track down the problem and come up with a fix. > Making sure things work correctly in XP and Vista is a high priority, > and we have dedicated resources for testing and verifying that they > do. Making sure everything works on patched systems is by nature a > much lower priority, but nothing's stopping someone from tracking it > down and submitting a fix. I'm not saying it's *not* a bug in > Chromium, but unless it happens with the standard vesion of > uxtheme.dll, it seems more likely that the theme patch is what's at > fault. > > --Amanda > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
