My thoughts exactly! But speculation doesn't really do the issue much
justice. To eventually have someone debug the problem would be ideal. I
created a bug report about this issue a couple of days ago here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9013


2009/3/23 PhistucK <[email protected]>

> *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
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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