Re: [guide-user] Guide in Windows 7 64Bit

Denis Feb 22, 2011

Bill,

The Win7 padding in the toolbar can be fixed by disabling the Themes in
the icon compatibility.I have been using Guide8 on Win7 64bits for a few
years without issues.

Denis

On 22/02/2011 2:31 PM, Bill J Gray wrote:
> Hi Nelson,
>
>> A bit quirky.
>
> Aside from the time zone issue, what else did you see? As I've
> mentioned recently, I'm collecting bug reports in hopes of fixing as
> much as possible before getting Guide 9 disks made.
>
> I should perhaps mention that I _thought_ Vista/Win7 issues had all
> been thoroughly fixed. I was wrong. I've just been doing some testing
> on a Win7 box, and saw two issues: toolbar buttons have a bit of space
> between them (when you move the cursor over them, it's apparent that
> Win7 has taken the liberty of padding them slightly on both sides),
> and some horrible misbehavior when I attempted to update satellite
> elements. It appears that the site Guide uses for satellite elements
> isn't working right now, and Guide isn't handling this gracefully.
> (Though it does so on an old WinME box, and in Wine in Ubuntu Linux.)
>
> There are some other bugs that I don't think are particular to any
> Windows version, such as the NexStar control issue that's been discussed
> here in recent days.
>
> I didn't see a time zone issue, though. One can reset the time zone
> by clicking on the time zone shown in the legend; or by going through
> Settings... Time Menu; or by clicking on the time shown in the legend,
> then on the time zone shown in the resulting dialog. All three methods
> work for me.
>
> What happens when you attempt to reset the time zone? (Do you get the
> list of time zones, or does it just not respond to clicking on the time
> zone button? Does it work using some of the above methods, but not others?
> Is it a problem along the lines of "I selected time zone X, clicked OK,
> but nothing happened"?)
>
> -- Bill
>
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