I am encountering a problem ever since I made the word wheel transparent. Anything I type gets typed again in a light grey offset behind my text:



You may not beable to see it there very well, so I have enlarged it for you:



Does anyone know what might be causing this? I can't seem to find a way to prevent it... but I'm probably just overlooking something.

A little help ?

the reason that happens is because you have given the word wheel a semi-transparent background.

After some experiments I have come to find that Microsoft has now made a new limitation where the wordwheel can't use a semi-transparent or fully transparent background.

Kinda sucks since it worked in 8.1 but theres nothing you can do about it

It seems to set the text in another element which I guess is showing up through the transparent element.

Here is a screenshot from the ever useful MsnCoreViewer

Damn Microsoft >.<.

Since this 'other element' that you mentioned Eljay is generating this ghost text, is it possible to set this other element to have a different font color?

Thank you both for your replies, and for your tests to find out the underlying issue .

You could try hiding it...

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Originally posted by deAd
You could try hiding it...

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...hmmm...one thing...where is this WordWheelElement tag??

I'm trying to make look like the contacts list, but i can't find the element!!

3rd of 4th line from top of your 1001 definitions file is where you find the wordwheelelement tag.

<Element LayoutPos=Client Layout=BorderLayout() Foreground=argb(0,0,0,0);>
<WordWheelElement id=atom(WordWheelElement)/>
</Element>

in another words, added Foreground=argb(0,0,0,0); and nothing happened

<Element LayoutPos=Client Layout=BorderLayout()>
<WordWheelElement id=atom(WordWheelElement) Foreground=argb(0,0,0,0);/>
</Element>

thats the correct code i beleive, although i havent actually tested it.

...weird...instead of the foreground/background going to transparent, the border disapeard!...well...at least something deisapeard...

Edit:Just to confirm...this code is for WLM 8.5, isn't it??

yes code is for wlm

I FOUND IT!
go into the 44103 Style file and find the following text:

Element[id=atom(wordWheelTextContainer1)]
{
    MinSizeize(0,37);
    Background:rgb(255,255,255);
}

if you didn't find it, you might have changed it to:

Element[id=atom(wordWheelTextContainer1)]
{
    MinSizeize(0,37);
    Background:argb(0,255,255,255);
}

if it is "Background:argb(0,255,255,255);", you will have the ghost text, if it it "Background:rgb(255,255,255);", you will see no text behind it

Hehehe, I had the same problem with my skin... and you can't remove that bug...
I wasted 4 hours trying to remove