Weird Tab behaviour

[enaiman]

When I move my GUI off the screen (to the left, so a part of the GUI goes off the screen) the part which went "under" looks weird:

Have a look for yourself:

and normally it looks like:

This is very anoying; any idea what can I do to get rid of this effect?

Here is the sample code:

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <TabConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 311, 199, 193, 125)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "Form1Close")
$Tab1 = GUICtrlCreateTab(16, 16, 281, 169)
$TabSheet1 = GUICtrlCreateTabItem("TabSheet1")
$Checkbox1 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox1", 32, 56, 97, 17)
$Checkbox2 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox2", 32, 80, 97, 17)
$TabSheet2 = GUICtrlCreateTabItem("TabSheet2")
$Group1 = GUICtrlCreateGroup("Group1", 32, 56, 185, 105)
$Checkbox3 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox3", 56, 80, 97, 17)
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", -99, -99, 1, 1)
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd


Func Form1Close()
    Exit
EndFunc

I tried to automatically move the window if its position is "outside" - it works somehow but not when somebody moves the GUI in-and-out so the final position is a "good one". Anyway it's an "ugly" workaround.

Please, if anybody knows a way to get rid of this, please let me know.

Thank you,

Edit: AutoIt version 3.3.0.0, OS WinXP Pro SP2

Edited February 13, 2009 by enaiman

[jpm]

I fix the behavior for next beta.

For the time being you can set GUICtrlSetDefBkColor() to the color of the tab background (different depending the theme use)

[enaiman]

Thanks alot jpm

GUICtrlSetDefBkColor() helped greatly.

I found it difficult to find the tab background color, I've used AutoIt Window Info tool and I found that the tab (default tab) has a gradient of color as background from 0xF3F4xx (bottom) to 0xFCFCxx (top)

What I did was picking a color from the mid-range 0xF8F7F6. It looks good but at a close look a very small difference of color can be spotted.

Looking forward to Beta fix

Thanks again.

[Leagnus]

Maybe StarDock WindowsBlind is contradiction point.

[GEOSoft]

Maybe StarDock WindowsBlind is contradiction point.

And the reason for reopening a thread that is over a year old, about an issue that was solved a year ago, with a statement that makes no sense in the context of the thread is...?