> > Have you tried switching to the standard VGA driver to see if you > > still have the problem? That'd tell you for sure if it was a > > (widespread) video driver bug or something with PowerPro. > > The fact that manipulating windows (i.e. closing all windows with a > specific class name) solves the problem leads me to strongly believe > that this isn't a video problem, but more a problem with the way > PowerPro handles windows. > > I think I mentioned my little theory before but if not: I believe that > PowerPro writes off a fraction of windows as special windows that > shouldn't be touched. This list of windows would obviously contain > entities like the taskbar, desktop and such, but it may accidentally > contain these shadow windows as well if they come from a special > process that PowerPro has been instructed (by Bruce) to leave alone.
I disabled the Themes service in XP and I'm still getting ghosts. However I did notice something interesting which is probably why we're getting the ghosting. If you have a tooltip displaying when you do the Vdesk next the tooltip disappears when you're on the new vdesk. However, when you switch back to the original vdesk that was showing when you were displaying the tooltip, the tooltip re-appears for a very short time, and then disappears. And when it disappears it's leaving the shadow. I'll bet whatever timer/event windows is using as the destroy tooltip shadow window command is triggering when the tooltip window is being hidden by powerpro on the other vdesk and thus not being executed on the hidden tooltip shadow. Then, when you switch back to that vdesk whatever is waiting for the tooltip destroy triggers, but whatever was there to hide the shadow has already triggered and missed the hidden shadow window. I did find what is creating the shadows though. Display properties | Appearance tab | Effects button | Show shadows under menus. If you disable this, there aren't any shadows on the tooltips, and the problem doesn't occur. I'm sure Bruce could fix this by making all tooltip windows destroy themselves before the vdesk switch to bypass the problem....or maybe he'll have a more ingenious idea =) David Troesch | Atlanta, GA | ICQ# 2333123 Treat each day as your last; One day you will be right. Funstuff: (A)bort, (R)etry or (G)et a stick and kill it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/JV_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
