bigmuscle

Key works for both versions if you have same hardware.

Debug checked symbols are for debug version of Win8.1.

Nothing to do from us. Latest update to Win8.1 update udwm.dll and dwmcore.dll to new versions and debug symbols for build 9600 are not valid for them. You must get new symbols somewhere...

Shane: HDD/SSD identification is done via HDD/SSD physical number which is unique per each drive and it changes only if you change your drive. It does not change in any other case unless you block the physical ID detection somehow which is very non-standard. If driver update changes the machine code, it mostly denotes bug in the driver itself (or some intentional feature of the driver) which blocks getting HDD ID. Due to this reason, it is not true that machine code will be "totally different" (as you wrote) and it is still possible to identify whether it is the same computer. Although license generator does not let you generate new license for this case, I can always block old ID and allow the new one manually.

According to your log, it says that your license file is invalid. It means that your license file got corrupted, you used it on different computer than file was generated for or you just made some changes to your hardware (if it is the third case than contact me via PM and specify more details about your hardware).

Machine ID for Win8.1 is displayed in console window, you can copy it and generate another license by filling it in my website form.

Your debug.log contains "SYMSRV: The server name or address could not be resolved" which means that either the remote server was not available, or your internet connection did not work during the DWM startup, or some other unspecified problem with your internet connection...

If you want to use beta version, then you should probably read the notes http://glass8.berlios.de/win81.html

And what intensity did you set?

They don't work if you don't enable them - http://glass8.berlios.de/guide.html

// Okay is fine so the some errors above is normal!? Yes, errors in log are normal, because function patterns are not included yet and thus it always fails (and will read the symbol file then).

I believe it is some paypal problem, because I didn't touch anything. It worked correctly after logging into your paypal account. I tried to regenerate paypal button without using encryption of included data and now it seems to be working. Could someone confirm that it works now?

Did you do it via link at glass8.berlios.de/donate.html ? Could you provide a screenshot of error?

It is the intention - when glow.bmp is not present, it uses standard DrawThemeTextEx API flag DTT_GLOWSIZE with glow size set to 5. Putting glow image (as well as aero stripes) directly into atlas is planned but I am not sure how it will work in Win8.1.

paul70: so multiple displays problem seems to be fixed now. I need to fix some additional problems now and then will release another beta.

debug.log contains message "Failed to load custom theme file" which should display error code of theme resource loading - you can then find a explanation of error code here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms681381(v=vs.85).aspx

Any chance of an x86 release for the next version bigmuscle? Would love to try aero glass on 8.1, your solution in 8 was great and I do miss it. It will be released when I get it into fully working state. The reason is that I must search/compute offsets for many DWM internal functions/objects/variables and it would take much more time if I need to get everything twice (one for x64 and x86). When I am sure that I don't need more data, I will compute them for 32-bit all at once.

I already tried examining this problem and the cause is that even if rendering area is e.g. [1920-2500], Direct2D context still returns the size of the first screen only (1920), so I must find a way to fix it :-)

very good!

Preview version is not supported - it has different offsets for some members and it will not probably inflate blur regions correctly (+ it will incorrectly "inflate" wrong memory data)

Do you have Win8 RTM or preview ? it seems that glass safety zone failed to create, could you share your debug.log ?

paul70: I was trying it in the past but I could not get it work, now I figured out that I must add new monitors manually and it works :-) I will inform when I fix the problem.

Thanks for your report. Multiple-displays configuration has not been tested yet, because I have no way to test it (does somebody know whether it is possible to emulate it e.g. in VMWare?). What is your resolution on both displays?

Link is on download page, I forgot to update Win8.1 page.

AERO GLASS for Win8.1 Beta 1 Ok, it took me a longer time. I didn't have much time during the last period but I managed to do something, so let's start hunting for bugs, glitches and crashes :-) Notes: * code refactoring * completely rewritten glass safety zone layer to match the same thing in Win7/8 * some blur buffer optimizations * custom theme resource (atlas image) can still be loaded from themeatlas.png file only (it will be fixed later) * DWM symbols are still needed (it will be changed in RC/final) - dbghelp.dll+symsrv.dll now included so symbols will download automatically if you have license key * glass reflection is moving a bit (similar to effect in Win7) http://glass8.berlios.de