Window resize issue

I'm not sure exactly what's started this but here's what's going on.

Sometimes while swapping windows one of the window will get stuck minimized and won't maximize. There's nothing I can seem to do about it other than exiting WOW/reloading character set again and the repeated logging in X5 is getting to me a bit. Not only is the window stuck small it is also out of sync with my mouse repeater regions when the bug occurs. Last but not least the video can also become garbled up in that window, very blocky like an 8-bit game.

This is just something that's started recently anf has become more and more frequent.

My suspicions are Spybot, or one of the newer addons I've installed. They were all installed at the same time so I'm not sure exactly which one it is or if they are even involved.

Some of the newer addons I installed are-
NPC Scan
NPC Scan Overlay
Gearscore Lite
Badboy
Gatherer
Tomtom
Routes

Other addons I use/used prior to the problem:
Bartender
DBM (Deadly Boss Mods)
Decursive
Healbot
Quartz
Jamba
Mikscrollingbattletext
Xperl Unit Frames

Anyway I'll try and figure out what's going on. Just hoping someone might know off the fly why this problem started.

I have had the same thing happen to me a few times, you can cause it in Windows 7 by clicking the WoW icon in the task bar to minimise it and it will stay locked in its smaller state unless you remove windowed mode.

I don't have spybot so I doubt its that, then again, I doubt it's any WoW add-on, more likely an OS thing.

However if you close the affected window and re-launch your character set, ISBoxer should see that the others are still open and only re-launch the one you closed (which is awesome I might add)

Anyways, you're not alone, i'm still trying to figure out what causes it as well! (when I don't do it by accidently clicking on the icon in the task bar)

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Originally Posted by Hivetyrant

I have had the same thing happen to me a few times, you can cause it in Windows 7 by clicking the WoW icon in the task bar to minimise it and it will stay locked in its smaller state unless you remove windowed mode.

I don't have spybot so I doubt its that, then again, I doubt it's any WoW add-on, more likely an OS thing.

However if you close the affected window and re-launch your character set, ISBoxer should see that the others are still open and only re-launch the one you closed (which is awesome I might add)

Anyways, you're not alone, i'm still trying to figure out what causes it as well! (when I don't do it by accidently clicking on the icon in the task bar)

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Thanks for that tip. I did not know that relaunching the character set would work like that! Nice that'll help a lot.

Yeah it always happens when I am switching windows too quickly- the window I switched from will start blinking in the taskbar also. It might be WOW crashing too because I generally get the WOW.exe has stopped working message end task pop up.

My OS is Windows Vista and just to throw it out there I use an Nvidia Geforce GTX 285 video card.

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Originally Posted by jinkobi

I'm not sure exactly what's started this but here's what's going on.

Sometimes while swapping windows one of the window will get stuck minimized and won't maximize. There's nothing I can seem to do about it other than exiting WOW/reloading character set again and the repeated logging in X5 is getting to me a bit. Not only is the window stuck small it is also out of sync with my mouse repeater regions when the bug occurs. Last but not least the video can also become garbled up in that window, very blocky like an 8-bit game.

This is just something that's started recently anf has become more and more frequent.

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This happens to me occasionally as well. Not every time... one out of 3 maybe. Only it locks up my whole OS (Vista64 Ult). I have to go into Task manager and end the WoW session. However, it has always worked the second time I launch. Did you set up your own screen regions? I had to make my own regions, and I thought maybe that had something to do with it.

I have come across this bug in windows 7 too. it happens when i alt tab or use the task bar to bring other windows like a non boxed instance of wow or internet browser to the foreground.. occasionally the bugged window will still come to the main window slot and the resolution is screwed , as in wolfenstein 3d screwed :0

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Originally Posted by Dooz

This happens to me occasionally as well. Not every time... one out of 3 maybe. Only it locks up my whole OS (Vista64 Ult). I have to go into Task manager and end the WoW session. However, it has always worked the second time I launch. Did you set up your own screen regions? I had to make my own regions, and I thought maybe that had something to do with it.

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After I close the messed up window things relaunch with no problem. When I set up my screen regions I just used the Wizard. My Windows Vista is the 32bit version btw.

So we have 3 different OS' experiencing the same problem which makes me think it might be a bug in ISboxer itself. What you guys are saying sounds identical to what happens to me.

At least it doesn't happen THAT often- but it sure can happen at the worst times- lol. Seems to come and go really. That one day it was happening over and over for some reason.

I'm working on a fix for these issues for the next ISBoxer update

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Originally Posted by Lax

I'm working on a fix for these issues for the next ISBoxer update

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That's why we love ya man!

Pretty strange it hasn't happened to me for 2 days now... As I mentioned it comes and goes without any real clear cut reason. When it shows up it generally happenes again not long afterwards.

I'm know you know better than I Lax but I have my theories. Another issue is when launching the character set only one WOW will launch. This seems to happen in conjunction with the window resize error. After a reboot they will go away usually which makes me think something is hung up in memory.

Just trying to give as much info as possible to help :)

np, thanks for providing the information you could.

On the subject...

I spent the last few days rewriting windowsnapper, the script ISBoxer is configuring to run the window layout. Originally it was built before ISBoxer, so it was originally meant to be kind of simpler since the parameters had to be manually entered. With ISBoxer it ended up being a mess of things thrown in as afterthoughts -- e.g. the Desired Rendering Size and even the option to have a Window Layout with "no holes" (where not all of the windows actually have a separate spot when inactive, one borrows from another when the windows swap).

The new code fixes a bunch of bugs like, and specifically including, the ones mentioned in this thread, and makes some new things possible to do.

For example, in the next build there's a new option to leave window swapping enabled, but disable instant swapping (purposefully making it slow). Disabling instant swapping will improve FPS in general and make all clients "readable" (actually rendered in the smaller resolution etc), at the cost of breaking mouse broadcasting and of course swapping speed. For people who don't need either of those (or is coming from other software and wants the same baseline performance), disabling instant swapping is probably a great idea. Better still, instant swap can be toggled on the fly. After disabling it you need to switch through each of the windows to get them to reset the window, but it's an easy way to improve performance if you're going to be in Dalaran for a while and don't need mouse broadcasting or instant window swapping for a while, etc.

Another related feature I added support for in the next build is "focus follows mouse", so if Swap isn't set to "Always" (e.g. instead set to only when you press a hotkey) you can simply mouse over your other windows to type in them real quick, etc without having to click first.

Anyway, I'm excited about these and other changes coming. Should make a lot of people pretty happy :)

Lax, I'm still in the process of trying to get set up, but this sounds like a nice fix. Thanks for your work on it.