AveDesk 1.3 Bug report thread

[Unbeliever]

Here you should post bugs you find in AveDesk 1.3.

Only bug reports written in the following form will be accepted:

Bug description:

Items involved:

Windows Version:

DirectX version:

System specs:

Graphics card & drivers version:

Desklets running:

Steps to reproduce:

Special notes:

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Example:

Bug description: Label visible on desktop for removable drives after showcase is acitvated/deactivated

Items involved: PIDL shortcut to DVD drive E:

Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP1

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Pentium 4 2.66ghz, 512mb of DDR RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: Ati Mobility Redeon 9000 with 64mb of RAM, Omega 2.6.71 based on Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: PIDL, Notes, FTP

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a PIDL shortcut

2. Set the PIDL shortcut to a removable drive.

3. Activate ShowCase

4. Deactivate ShowCase again.

5. The label displays on the desktop even though there is no disk in the drive and the icon is not visible

Special notes: Ave this IS a bug report

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IMPORTANT!

Your bug reports must be in the EXACT same form as the one above.

Bug reports in form that is different from the one given as an example will not be investigated due to the lack of necessary data.

[Recall]

Ok, not sure who is at fault here. But Avedesk runs fine, however with it running the genie effect will be slow and laggy.

I think if you and Raduking can get together you can solve this conflict. Check the video here about konfubulator and rk launcher, I get the exact same problem with Avedesk. I have more hope of you and Raduking getting it fixed between you than Konfubulator.

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....6178#post326178

Example:

Bug description: Label visible on desktop for removable drives after showcase is acitvated/deactivated

Items involved: PIDL shortcut

Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2ghz, 1gb of DDR RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: Nvidia 6800GT with 256mb of RAM, Official WHQL 81.85

Desklets running: Single pidl shortcut

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run avedesk and add a single pidl shortcut.

2. Open rklauncher

3. Minimise a window with genie effect

4. Genie effect is hella slow

5. Close avedesk

6: Genie effect works at full speed.

[banks]

Bug description: When making a second shortcut to a folder in my documents via the PIDL shortcut, avedesk closes.

Items involved: PIDL shortcut to C:Documents and Setting............Movies and Shows

Windows Version: Windows Xp Pro SP2

DirectX version: I beleive its Direct X 9.0c

System specs:P4 2.66GHz, 2.67GHz. 512 MB of RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Desklets running:PIDL shortcut -> my computer, shortcut 1 to my documents

Steps to reproduce: HUH?

Special notes: okay, i'll just leave this blank also

Ave: no idea on how to reproduce... so

[_cell]

Bug description: (PIDL Shortcut) Desklet Properties->Shortcut Browse button in Path section doesn't work (i press it and nothing happens)

Items involved: PIDL Shortcut desklet

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Athlon(thunderbird) 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600Pro

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600Pro Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: 3 x PIDL Shortcuts

Steps to reproduce: rightclick a PIDL->Desklet Options->Shortcut, click Browse button in Path section

Special notes: found this bug in version 1.2 and it still exists in 1.3

Ave: Clear anything in the editbox. Not actually a bug, just strange behaviour:p

[_cell]

Bug description: Text input widgets display wrong symbols in cyrillic keyboard layout (e.g. I input: "абвгдеё" and desklet displays: "012345Q")

Items involved: Sticky Notes, Translator

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Athlon(thunderbird) 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600Pro

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600Pro Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: Sticky Notes, Translator

Steps to reproduce: switch keyboard layout to Russian and start typing text into a desklet

Special notes: tried both desklets and tried every font in Sticky - the same misbehaviour.

Ave: I don't have a russion keyboard layout, but none of the testers reported this to me. I can type ALT+code characters to and copy/pasting is no problem neither. Contact me thru PM if you dont see a way to change this behaviour

[Pooky]

Bug description: Flip and suck animations look strange

Items involved: All flipping widgets

Windows Version: Windows XP Home SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Athlon XP 2600+ 1.9GHz, 1gb of DDR RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: nVidia Geforce 6600gt, drivers 81.85

Desklets running: doesn't matter, it always happens

Steps to reproduce:

none, the flip just looks like a black widget to the side is flipping while the actual widget is still at the right position, but only visible inside the black flipping square.

the suck animation looks like there is a big black block to the right of the widget when it sucks in.

Ave: screenshots would help

[mrhotwings]

Bug description: tray icon dissappears and can't get it back (without reboot?), going to global settings and checking "show a tray icon for avedesk" doesn't bring it back either.

Items involved: tray icon

Windows Version: win xp sp1

DirectX version: 9

System specs: pentium 4 2.8ghz, 1gb ram

Graphics card & drivers version: 9800 pro, catalyst 4.x

Desklets running: PIDL shortcut, instantphoto, dtcalendar, aero rss, avetunes

Steps to reproduce: not sure, just dissapears and can't get it back (probably need reboot)

Special notes:

Ave: Are you sure it's not auto-hidden by the shell? check taskbar properties...

EDIT2: nevermind, i found out problem. it wasn't AVE, somehow in AVE under Global Setting, Tray icon tab, i browse for tray icon before but didnt pick one so it was blank, got it back by clicking on "Use default icon".

[AndreasV]

Ave: Replied all bugs in the message itself in the same style as this message

[Pooky]

Not sure if I should reply in a new post or in the same one... but here's something that's even better: a video of my problem.

http://www.atomised-entertainment.needlemen.com/Avedesk1.mov

The flip button didn't show up in the video but it does show up normally.

Also, the tutorial widget links to a "Avedesk Tutorial placeholder" webpage with no actual tutorial.

[AndreasV]

@Pooky:

looks like a driver problem, try different drivers or try this http://www.transgaming.com/swiftshader.php.

[Pooky]

But 81.85 is the latest official nVidia driver, and gives me some really good gaming performance

And... whats that shiftshader thing? Looks like a GPU tester to me.

[_cell]

Bug description: Stycky Notes 'checkboxes' misbehave on resize (image attached)

http://www.ljplus.ru/img/_/c/_cell/flippy_stuff.jpg

Items involved: Sticky Notes

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Athlon(thunderbird) 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600Pro

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600Pro Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: Sticky Notes, Translator

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add a new Sticky to desktop.

2. Set its size to 180*180 (anything other than default)

3. Flip it.

4. Try to use any checkbox. (Seems like the visuals of controls have been scaled properly, but 'active areas' remained the same as on default sized desklet)

Special notes: tried with smaller and larger size. The same misbehaviour.

Font list, Font Size list and 'Done' button do work fine with any size.

Ave: Confirmed bug in the desklet

[dreadnaut]

But 81.85 is the latest official nVidia driver, and gives me some really good gaming performance

And... whats that shiftshader thing? Looks like a GPU tester to me.

swiftshader is a software implementation of the dx8/9 functions that are usually hardware accellerated. It help running 3d stuff when you don't have a good graphic card - but a good processor Just take d3d9.dll and put it in the Avedesk folder

[tri1ogy]

Bug description: When I go to load up AveDesk I get a notification for my 'Windows Installer for Product Drivers'. I end up having to keep cancelling this notification out.

Items involved: AveDesk

Windows version: Windows XP Home SP1

DirectX version: 9.0

System specs: Celeron 2.5Ghz, 256MB DDR SDRAM

Graphics card & drivers version: Intel Extreme with 64mb of RAM, Intel v6.14.10.3889 (yeah, I know *roll*)

Desklets running: none yet when this happens

Steps to reproduce: Loading up AveDesk

Special notes: Happens with v1.3, but noticed it a few months ago with v1.2

Side note: A dumb question, but how is everyone updating this version on their computers? (I noticed that the file structure is different on this version, so I opened v1.3 in a different folder and transferred some things between versions - then ran into minor problems. I could explain more, but I feel that if this is answered - I wont need to.)

:confused:

[Pooky]

Right, well swiftshader makes it run a lot smoother, but I still have the bug.

Please try to make this work with 81.85, as I'm not switching back. FANTASTIC work though, this is the best program ever!

[AndreasV]

Please try to make this work with 81.85, as I'm not switching back.

If you give me an Nvidia card, I'll do

[AndreasV]

Windows Installer for Product Drivers

No idea what this is, maybe make a screenshot?

[Pooky]

Heh, is there anyway I can do some testing to help? Most people will be using 81.85 since it's the latest version, after all.

EDIT: err... right, well something funky happened with Avedesk and it crashed, so when I started it up again the flip animation suddenly worked. However, now the sucky animation doesn't work:

When I click the red X, the widget dissapears and the red x slowly fades away.

EDIT2: Err... Avedesk 1.3 won't load the themes I created with it. I deleted the Avedesk 1.2 folder and tried again but still nothing. The tray icon also shows up as a blank spot in the system tray (except when it's rotating).

[kman42]

Bug description: Desktop Icons

Items involved: HideDesktopIcons

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: I believe 9.0

System specs:

Graphics card & drivers version:

Desklets running: AveTunes, Chalkboard, Whiteboard, Translation, Search Bar,Icon Drop

Steps to reproduce: Opened the desklets, and then closed AveTunes

Special notes: N/A

[banks]

OHHHH! LOL, im slow today....studying for mid-terms....to continue from my last post

Bug description: When making a second shortcut to a folder in my documents via the PIDL shortcut, avedesk closes.

Items involved: PIDL shortcut to C:Documents and Setting............Movies and Shows

Windows Version: Windows Xp Pro SP2

DirectX version: I beleive its Direct X 9.0c

System specs:P4 2.66GHz, 2.67GHz. 512 MB of RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Desklets running:PIDL shortcut -> my computer, shortcut 1 to my documents

Steps to reproduce: Basically run the program again...and try to re-make PIDL shortcuts....but the problem continues to happen

Special notes: N/A

[Pooky]

Oops right, sorry:

Bug description: When I click the red X, instead of doing hte sucky, the widget dissapears and the red X slowly fades away

Items involved: All sucky widgets

Windows Version: Windows XP Home SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Athlon XP 2600+ 1.9GHz, 1gb of DDR RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: nVidia Geforce 6600gt, drivers 81.85

Desklets running: doesn't matter

Steps to reproduce: err, not sure. the flip works fine.

[DragonFly]

Bug: I also have a bug with cyrillic keyboard layout in text input widgets.

Items involved: Sticky Notes, Translator

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Intel Celeron 2.0Ghz, 768Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600, Catalyst 5.7

Desklets running: Sticky Notes, Translator

Steps to reproduce: switch keyboard layout to Russian and start typing text into a desklet

Note: old Notes desklet works well

[_cell]

The tray icon also shows up as a blank spot in the system tray (except when it's rotating).

The same problem here. So the full description will be:

Bug description: System tray icon doesn't appear at startup - there's only emty space in the tray, but it allows clicking on it to call AveDesk menu.

Items involved: AveDesk itself, I guess

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Athlon(thunderbird) 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600Pro

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600Pro Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: none

Steps to reproduce:

1. Turn on computer with AveDesk autoload on startup enabled

Special notes:

1. Way to solve the problem:

ControlPanel->Settings->Global Settings->Tray Icon

Click Use default icon, then Apply.

this solves the problem until the next system reboot.

[_cell]

Bug description: Hotkeys for Control Panel don't work (Tried 'del' on sesklets, and various Alt+F7, Alt+F8, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+S)

Windows Version: XP SP2

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs: Athlon(thunderbird) 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600Pro

Graphics card & drivers version: ATI Radeon 9600Pro Catalyst 5.9

Desklets running: none

Steps to reproduce:

1. Activate control Panel

2. Press a hotkey combination

Special notes: Alt + F4 works

[kmccormi]

Bug description: Suck/Flip effects were working; now they don't

Items involved: Any desklet involving these effects

Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP1

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Pentium M 1600 mhz, 1.2 ghz, 512mb of RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: Ati Mobility Radeon 9000

Desklets running: PIDL, Avetunes, Sysstats, Chalkboard

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a desklet that uses flip/suck animations (i.e. Chalkboard)

2. Flip it - flip it back

3. Hover, press ctrl, click close button

Special notes: On the first few runs of 1.3 the suck animation worked spectacularly. Flip, however, didn't work at all. Now, both don't work. I've checked and rest global settings so both options are ticked, but nada. EDIT: Just reinstalled 9.0c and the suck effect now works again, but I've still yet to see the flip effect in action.

And another one:

Bug description: Desklets don't show when ShowCase is activated

Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP1

DirectX version: 9.0c

System specs:Pentium M 1600 mhz, 1.2 ghz, 512mb of RAM

Graphics card & drivers version: Ati Mobility Radeon 9000

Desklets running: PIDL, Avetunes, Sysstats, Chalkboard

Steps to reproduce:

1. Activate Showcase

2. No desklets show up

3. Deactivate showcase

4. Activate Showcase on all desklets

5. Desklets appear for 1-2 seconds and look washed out, before disappearing completely