January 28, 20224 yr If I click on a box in AAO it does the action it is supposed to but it does not leave a check mark in the box. This is especially troubling in Tools | Win 8/10 Enhanced Power Management. If I check on an EMP box it does not leave any checkmark in the box. So I have no clue if EPM is on or off. It is the same issue for all check boxes in AAO. In the Assigned Axis if I click on Reversed box, it reverses or it unreverses the axis exactly like it is supposed to do. But it does not leave a checkmark to show which state it is in. Everfy checkbox in AAO , same issue. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 28, 20224 yr Commercial Member 12 hours ago, Fielder said: Every checkbox in AAO , same issue. Not for me, they all work as designed. Nor has anybody else reported this. This is a standard Windows client application, using the Windows Presentation Foundation framework. There is nothing special about the checkboxes, they are simply the default from the Windows toolbox. I doubt that there is something that I could do on my end. What Windows version are you using, and is there something special about it? (=special graphics theme/package/addon/tool or something) What graphics card? I seem to recall that there was an issue like this years ago (before 2010) with certain Windows XP themes, when the text color of the WPF checkbox was set to "white". Edited January 28, 20224 yr by Lorby_SI LORBY-SI
January 28, 20224 yr Author Thanks, your message tells me it is a windows setting that has been changed. I'm using Windows 10. Geforce RTX2060 Super graphics. I change fonts all the time using winaero tweaker to make things easier to see. And some other changes using winaero. From what you told me, there should be a registry key that sets the checkbox color, but I can't find any information on that using google. By the way, there is no problem with seeing checkbox in File explorer, the desktop icons etc. Or anywhere else on the computer. Only the AAO checkboxes do not show any change when tic'd. Edited January 28, 20224 yr by Fielder 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 28, 20224 yr Commercial Member 1 hour ago, Fielder said: there should be a registry key that sets the checkbox color, I'm not sure that is the case. Color information is embedded in the client program - but technically the checkmarks aren't pure white. Can you make out at least a hint of them? Like dirty white on pure white? And can you go back to Windows normal ops temporarily, just to see if that "winaero" thing is really the cause? Then I can research further in that direction. This old problem was resolved by using custom code for all checkboxes - it would be really nice if that could be avoided... As for the checkboxes in other apps: there are other Windows client frameworks besided WPF (like Forms). The effect doesn't have to be the same for all of them. LORBY-SI
January 28, 20224 yr Author I reset winaero all back to default, it did not help. Yes, I can make out a hint of the checkmarks. But because the boxes themselves are white, and so are the checkmarks, so I can't really tell later on if they're checked. The LED's are not white, they are dark, so if I click on them I can see them turn from dark to green. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 28, 20224 yr Author Curve box checked and unchecked. You can see the red curve displayed on the right when checked, but can't see the checkmark. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 29, 20224 yr Author WinaeroTweaker was the problem. I fooled around with winaero tweaks again. And anyway, the problem went away. AAO checkboxes working fine now. I'm not sure which tweak was the problem, maybe a 'font' size or something. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 29, 20224 yr Commercial Member 48 minutes ago, Fielder said: WinaeroTweaker was the problem. I fooled around with winaero tweaks again. And anyway, the problem went away. AAO checkboxes working fine now. I'm not sure which tweak was the problem, maybe a 'font' size or something. This looks exactly the same as the problem way back in Win XP. Somewhere in this whole mix there must be some very old code... From what I found out about this problem, the issue is somewhere in the Windows theme. It decides that the checkmark should have the same color as the text. The text in AAO is "Antique White", that is why you can make out a trace against pure white. The programmatic solution would be to use custom checkbox and radio button code, where the checkbox/radio control itself doesn't have a text and uses the default color, and it has a label attached that has its own color (white). I can put it on the list, but this is a lot of work that can't be done overnight... Edited January 29, 20224 yr by Lorby_SI LORBY-SI
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