Markbot, thanks for your comments.

> I cannot reproduce this bug. When I follow your steps, typing CTRL,
> V, in step 5 inserts the image such that the captured window displays
> at the same dimensions as it had when I typed ALT, PRINTSCREEN, in
> step 3. In other words, it looks just like it did when I captured it,
> and no resizing is necessary to make it look correct.

Hmm. Here are some screen captures of what I see:

After I resize a WLM composition window to minimum and capture it using
Alt-PRINT SCREEN, then resize the composition window to reasonable size and
paste the captured image, this is what I see (this is the bug):

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...nCapBug_1a.png

Now if I slightly resize the composition window, upon redraw the correct
pasted image appears, as shown in this screen capture:



http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...nCapBug_1b.png

(Note that the 'bug' pasted image has no similarity to any part of the
correct image -- where did it come from?)

Of course this is somewhat artificial, but I post because it might interest
MS as it probably indicates a problem in the code that might have effects in
less artificial circumstances as well.

I'm using WLM 12.0.1606 on Vista Home Premium in classic mode.

(Aside: WLM doesn't seem to conform to Classic mode appearance -- I expect
a blue title bar that darkens when the window is active.)

Hi Baffin:

Yes, that sure looks like a bug to me. I have not tried WLM on my
Vista machine, yet. Perhaps we experience different behavior because
we're using different versions of Windows.

Looking at your two screen shots, I see one similarity. The rotation
handle (the green square) displays on both. It looks like WLM has
allocated only a tiny area in which to display the pasted screen shot;
perhaps that's why there are scroll bars. Not that it would solve
anything, but did you try scrolling vertically and horizontally to see
if the entire screen shot is in that tiny area?

The strip of desktop to which you point with the red arrow (as well as
the thinner strips of desktop around the other three sides of the
window) also represent a bug. I remember previous builds of WLM would
"reserve" this area at the top of its window in so far as you could
only position the window *near* the top of the computer's display. If
you dragged the window any closer, it would bounce back to retain that
blank space. Build 1606 has the same problem, and I think that both
issues (the "reserved" space and the desktop strip captured) are
related.

As far as the appearance of the active title bar, I've seen too many
different versions of title bars since Vista was released to know what
is standard anymore. As of today, I can tell which WLM window is
active, not by the color of the title bar, but by the color of the
title text. The text "Windows Live Mail" in WLM's main window title
bar is white when active and pale blue when inactive. In a WLM
message window, the title bar text is black when active and gray when
inactive. (With my various Windows applications, I can now see four
different title bar behaviors! For the time being, there is no
standard.)

~ Markbot




Baffin wrote:

>
> Markbot, thanks for your comments.
>
> Hmm. Here are some screen captures of what I see:
>
> After I resize a WLM composition window to minimum and capture it
> using
> Alt-PRINT SCREEN, then resize the composition window to reasonable
> size and
> paste the captured image, this is what I see (this is the bug):
>
> http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...nCapBug_1a.png
>
> Now if I slightly resize the composition window, upon redraw the
> correct
> pasted image appears, as shown in this screen capture:
>
> http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...nCapBug_1b.png
>
> (Note that the 'bug' pasted image has no similarity to any part of
> the
> correct image -- where did it come from?)
>
> Of course this is somewhat artificial, but I post because it might
> interest
> MS as it probably indicates a problem in the code that might have
> effects in
> less artificial circumstances as well.
>
> I'm using WLM 12.0.1606 on Vista Home Premium in classic mode.
>
> (Aside: WLM doesn't seem to conform to Classic mode appearance -- I
> expect
> a blue title bar that darkens when the window is active.)