Aero Glass for Win8.1 RTM RC3

[acterhd]

HOW TO GET MACHINE CODE!?

[shelter]

HOW TO GET MACHINE CODE!?

It's in the debug.log

[acterhd]

How to change [_|o|x] buttons?

I.e. window buttons

Edited November 2, 2013 by acterhd

[NoelC]

This is the verbose debug build: http://glass8.berlios.de/stuff/DWMGlassVerbose.7z

NoelC: could you use this build a provide debug log when custom resource is not applied?

Hi BigMuscle, I did as you asked. Here's the log output from a bootup in which the themeatlas.png file was not loaded, then I closed the dwm.exe window and the themeatlas was successfully loaded.

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Verbose_11-2-2013_01_debug.log

It doesn't seem particularly verbose, nor did I notice any slowness. Is there a trace level setup file you'd like me to change to increase the trace level?

-Noel

[bigmuscle]

it's ok, it logged what I needed and I think the problem is what I thought

[0x36C] Loading settings: 0x00007FF7388D41D0 (0x00000000000003EC)
[0x3E4] Atlas resource loading (custom: )

Someone here already suggested adding timestamps to logs so I should really do it. But now it looks that settings and theme were loaded at the same time so it is just race condition when it asks for CustomThemeResource. I guess putting the settings into HKLM will work.

[NoelC]

it's ok, it logged what I needed and I think the problem is what I thought

Someone here already suggested adding timestamps to logs so I should really do it. But now it looks that settings and theme were loaded at the same time so it is just race condition when it asks for CustomThemeResource. I guess putting the settings into HKLM will work.

Glad to help. My system's timing may be different than others because it's running from a fast SSD array, so lots of things can happen in a very short time.

I've put the CustomThemeResource string value in the HKLM path here:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "CustomThemeResource"="C:\\BIN\\themeatlas.png"

Confirmed: With this change it successfully loads the themeatlas.png consistently at bootup (5 times out of 5 boots) with the non-verbose beta 3 build. Thanks!

-Noel

[ace2]

CustomThemeResource. I guess putting the settings into HKLM will work.

Confirm CustomThemeResource is now working.

[CasparWindows]

I made a batch file that can be quickly installed Aero Glass Beta 2, only the Aero81.7z files, extract to D: \ Aero81 (no folder please create), execute Windows 8.1 Aero Glass (x64) ENG.bat can be installed. I used Google Translate, if grammatical errors, sorry

Fix file https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lpnnM9IzikZE5BZjg1S2lYRmM/edit?usp=sharing

downlord:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lpnnM9IzikWnJuNmRsY2pkTGM/edit?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lpnnM9IzikWnJuNmRsY2pkTGM/edit?usp=sharing

Edited November 3, 2013 by CasparWindows

[DosProbie]

@Caspar, Use the variable %systemdrive% for C: regedit /s %~dp0\AeroGlass.reg to make silent and why D drive? you could use the tmp instead..DP

[DosProbie]

Just used the Beta3 installer and now booting to desktop get a "Your THEMECPL.DLL AND SHELL32.DLL" Is Incompatible..blah blah..

[paul70]

@bigmuscle

here the debug log for the rotated screen: http://ul.to/ysnejri8

As you asked, pressing F11 while moving some windows from the main to the rotated screen (in my case: 1920x1080 -> 1200x1600)

Hope it helps you tracking down the issue

Edited November 3, 2013 by paul70

[CasparWindows]

@Caspar, Use the variable %systemdrive% for C: regedit /s %~dp0\AeroGlass.reg to make silent and why D drive? you could use the tmp instead..DP

Thank you

[scanman1]

Not that I'm complaining, but I'd like to report a BUG.

When spanning two monitors, when Explorer throws up a dialog box, it pop's up right in the middle of the two displays as if it's centered as one big display instead of poping up in the center of the active display, so half the window is on one monitor and the other half is on the other monitor.

Minor, but worth mentioning.

Edited November 3, 2013 by scanman1

[truexfan81]

Not that I'm complaining, but I'd like to report a BUG.

When spanning two monitors, when Explorer throws up a dialog box, it pop's up right in the middle of the two displays as if it's centered as one big display instead of poping up in the center of the active display, so half the window is on one monitor and the other half is on the other monitor.

Minor, but wirth mentioning.

i had that happen several times before i had even downloaded aeroglass, thats an explorer bug, i suggest reporting it to MS.

[MagicAndre1981]

@bigmuscle

When the video window (by using DxVA2 acceleration) is across 2 monitors boundary (please see pic below), the dwm.exe process will eat 12% CPU of the Intel 2600k quad core. When the video window is within the main monitor, the dwm.exe only uses 1% CPU. Please check.

I'm using AMD 7750 GPU with latest 13.11b Catalyst on 64-bit Win 8.1 RTM. And AeroGlass beta3.

PS. This will also cause above issue when the video is in fullscreen mode, which consumes 25w more power..

@bigmuscle and @MagicAndre1981

I caught the DWMTrace.etl and uploaded to below site:

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eOHPU

Thanks much!

the high CPU usage comes from a sleep (KernelBase.dll!SleepEx, ntdll.dll!NtDelayExecution). The Glass DLL is not shown in the callstack. The dwmglass.dll only uses 0.02% of the CPU.

The dvbviewer.exe hogs the GPU most: