First off, one two many posts dealing with CFX, I'm getting confused.

The new update, at least for me, has cleared up the downloading issue. Transparency also is working as is all the other effects. I have the Plus version running on an XP system.

The latest update (2.00.004) cleared this up for me.
XP SP2 CursorFX Plus.

Sorry about all the these goldarned posts on CFX Philly. I just bought the CFXPlus, did a clean uninstall/reinstall via SDC and all is well. No more transparent window when dragging the app around, downloads are redirected to the proper folder, dbl clicking on themes in folders resets works too. However, the new popup warnings are soooo MS though. Of course I want to use this theme. That's why I double clicked it.

I did find one bug with the new version though. If you use the Show Desktop button on WinXP SP2 quick launch bar, all your apps go to the task bar right. Now move the cursor to the desktop and it reverts to being displayed as the default windows cursor. If you run your cursor over the task bar, or maximize another app, it displays as the cursor you have loaded in CFX.

Anyone using the quick launch bar, show desktop button, chegidout and lemme know if you can reproduce it. I'll pop a ticket in anyhow. It's been a fun morning for CFX no?

Cheers,
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I will return to CXP & CXP-Plus. The free download of FX lacks the mirror-effect, one of the main reasons for me to use the programm.
Emmy1960

The mirror option has always been Plus only IIRC, same is for CFX.

LightStar - Ctrl-Shift-C still works to toggle CFX on/off.

Alberto -

The problem with the default windows pointer appearing when hovering the cursor over certain system buttons and items in dropdown lists remains in the .004 version (XPP SP2). This is in apps where this was not occurring with CXP. Still can't get PrtSc to capture it, I'm afraid. PrtSc will capture the CFX cursor image, but not the Windows default pointer when it shows up for some reason. FWIW, the default pointer shows up as soon as you call up the domain ShutDown dialog now - the CXP cursor remained active until after that dialog before.

I can meanwhile confirm the bug found by mjbisme.

When moving more than 200 cursors into the CursorFX-folder, the CursorFX panel becomes unresponsive (I don't have CursorFX crashing on me, but I still can't do anything with it).

CursorXP did not have that problem.

When opening Task-Manager, the CursorFX panel shows a CPU use of about 53% and the Memory use is not that high either. The rest of the system stays responsive and works normally.

This bug was found on both 2.00.002 and 2.00.004. (plus-Versions)

Will this be addressed in a future release?

Man this is fun watching the boards go crazy when buggy code is put out. SD will fix it. They always do. Right?

I agree aufisch, CFX loads friggin slow and I only have 66 cursors loaded. The CursorFX Control Panel is a hog too! Right now it's using 26,656k RAM, 91,388k VM, 33 Handles (ok), 14 User Obj (ok) but it sucks up 1,124 GDI Objects! The only other hog that can beat this is iTunes 7.

Want some more fun? Double click on the LightRing cursor, open task manager and check out this memory hog. LightRing is sucking 14,880k right now, and just as high on VM; and %cpu skyrockets with effects when moving the cursor around. Try using the smoke trails and your cpu may fly right off your desk.

I got CFX to totally lock up my XPSP2 system by going through the cursors and trying them on for size. Occasionally, when switching cursors a popup warning comes up saying "do you want to override the current theme's on click effects?" Clicked on Yes a couple of times, then clicked on No another time and WHAM the whole machine locked up. Ctl,Alt,Del wouldn't even work. Had to do a hard reboot.

Anyway, all this messing with CFX has made for a fun day. It's been much more fun than studying Organic Chemistry anyhow, so keep the code a commin. You build it, we buy it, we break it, you fix it. Isn't that how the software world is supposed to work?

Have a good night 'yall.

Thanks aufisch. I'm glad to see someone else experiencing the problem.   



Perhaps I used the term crash incorrectly here. The Control Panel does simply freeze and become unresponsize. The chosen cursor is still working and I can load a new one by double clicking a theme in the Themes folder, but the CursorFX Control Panel does not function - so crashed, frozen, unresponsive, but it doesn't work.