WildBill

I'm not seeing the memory leak, but I'm working on the other issues. I think I might have fixed the issue with the blank logs, the AnsiString leaks, and I've fixed a bug in skinning the menu background. I've also updated Gridlok.ini to use the start button overlay and menu skinning. I'll keep working at it today, and will probably release a 1.0.3 version tonight.

Happy New Year, everyone I've updated the top post with a link to SmoothText 1.0.2. There are lots of goodies in it this one that should make Win2k a lot nicer. Enjoy...

Notice anything about the Start button? I need at least another day or two for some polishing, but it's almost ready for release.

Do you have something I can download and try? I don't think I have any examples to test.

Wow. I didn't know that a new version of TT was out. I'm testing it with the next version of SmoothText and they're playing very nicely together.

Getting there...the list of changes in the changelog will be pretty long, when I get around to typing it up. This one definitely has some memory leak fixes. This is Tripo's Uber skin...I've made a lot of tweaks and some additions to it, and it will come with SmoothText. Scrollbar support is far from complete and won't be when I release 1.0.2 this week, but it's a good start. Edit: I had the wrong group box image file name so they weren't showing up. Fixed...

A little update...I was out of town the last two weeks for work. I brought my laptop with me and made a lot of improvements to SmoothText, until...either the beautiful California weather or the icebox they call a lab over there gave me a nasty cold. I'm home now, but for the moment I'm concentrating on recuperating. Still, I managed to start scrollbar support and I've fixed a ton of bugs. I'm on break for the next two weeks, and I plan to release 1.0.2 while I'm off from work.

Yup, there's definitely a memory leak in 1.0.1. I ran across it earlier tonight and I'm testing a fix. If it's the same bug that you're seeing, you should see the leak stop if you turn skinning off. I've also found a GDI leak in the code that paints rebar controls. It happens whether skinning is on or not, but if you tell SmoothText to not mess with rebar controls then that should stop, too.

I'll have to try it again later on. Unfortunately my desktop PC's monitor died and I'm waiting for a new one. In the meantime I'm working on SmoothText 1.0.2 on my laptop. So far I've fixed a ton of bugs and added support for skinning combo boxes. I won't be able to localize this one, though, because all of the localization stuff is on my desktop.

I've stopped working on TClock3 in favor of SmoothText, though I would like to port some of TClock's best features over at some point. Admittedly, though, it's been a low priority. Which features of TClock are you missing?

Hmm. I managed to get it from Microsoft, but when I try to run it, it says it's not a valid Win32 application.

I've started using the Delphi Localizer (Delphi Localizer) to localize the project. In the future, people will be able to submit localizations and I'll be able to put them in. I'm having trouble with the Japanese text as I don't have the font that you have, but the localizer was still able to import the text into the localization project.

Wow, I guess I'll have to work on making it localizable For version 1.0.2 I've added support for skinning combo boxes, and I'm making a lot of internal changes to try to to track down any further instability issues.

Hmm. I noticed a bug in the Uber.INI file. For the taskbar buttons, there is an extra entry that's causing them to not appear. For [iMAGE5] and [iMAGE6], there's an extra line that you need to remove: StretchRectRight=16 Basically the duplicate StretchRectRight entry is causing the image to be ignored. I'll repack the archive and re-upload it, but for anyone who already grabbed it, that will get Taskbar and QuickLaunch buttons working.

I've released version 1.0.1, which you can get at the top post, as usual. Tripo, I've taken your initial Uber skin and included it, though I first made some changes and additions. The changes were mainly to make some image borders transparent, so there are some .TGA versions of your files added to the skin. I've also added some images to accommodate trackbars and tabs. Otherwise, it's a very nice skin, and thanks for donating it! I've tested the heck out of this, and while there are still some issues, it seems to be pretty stable. I hope everyone enjoys it.

Thanks for the test reports! It's been a while since I've released an update. I'm working on finishing tab support, and it takes a while since tabs can be attached to any window edge (top, bottom, left, right). I've uncovered (and fixed) a font-caching bug in the process, and I still have to do more work on skinning and handling sideways text. I haven't taken a look at your skin yet, but I plan to try to integrate it before the next release.

Wow, that's really weird. Font substitution is working fine for me. What's KDW? I get an unskinned border on the taskbar, but when I click on the taskbar it skins properly. It has to do with painting the non-client area. I need to get SmoothText to kick a message to Explorer to force a repaint of the non-client area when it starts. The taskbar normally has a border that depends on your window border thickness settings, and this is the non-client area.

Note the trackbar skinning... It was a lot of work, but trackbar support is in. If skinning is off but "highlight controls" is on, the thumb will highlight on mouseover. I'm testing it now, and if all is well I should be releasing 1.0.1 fairly soon.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. After working so hard on 1.0.0 I've been taking it a lot slower so I can get some other things done. That said, I'm testing a fix for the taskbar clock (it would stop updating after a while). I also think I've found a bug in the text rendering code that might have been causing instability problems. Time will tell whether the fix helps.

Do you have "Highlight Components" checked? This is necessary for hover to work.

It's just a skin I was using on my laptop that I've always sort of liked. It supports skinning up-down controls and changing system colors. Multi-core should definitely work, I'm using it on a quad-core box running 2000 Server. I'm glad you like it.

Okay, at long last, version 1.0.0 is up. Enjoy, everyone

They are, but track bars aren't (the sliders you drag). I have code in TClock3 to skin them, but it's sort of involved. Does anyone know why the forums keep forgetting my login cookie? Constantly having to log back in is getting really annoying.

I've now fixed the rebar positioning on the taskbar when skinning is on and the start button changes size. I also fixed another GDI resource leak in painting taskbar buttons. The remaining issues are: 1. Firefox 3.5 occasionally crashes. 2. Explorer hangs when I shut SmoothText down. 3. I occasionally get some FastMM errors. I'm not sure what to do for these now until I do some more investigating, but I figure it's no worse than 0.9.9. I might release 1.0.0 as it is and work on skinning track bars afterward, because it's a lot of code to port from TClock3 and could take a while.

No, but now that you mention it, I know where that's happening. I'm caching the screen dimensions. Okay, I'll change the code to always retrieve it. Edit: consider that bug squashed