luckman212

Thanks - ok so if I don't need that particular function, I can disable it I guess. I think it might be causing crashes.

I am trying to debug some problems I'm having with Explorer.exe crashing while drawing icons. I can reproduce this by clicking on the Desktop and then just holding down 'F5' to constantly refresh the screen over and over. Eventually explorer dies and respawns. So I'm using ShellExView to try to isolate rogue Shell Extensions. I noticed Paint.NET installs one called "ShellExtension_x64.dll". What is the purpose of this? Is it for Thumbnail generation? Can it be safely disabled without adverse effect? Thanks for any info. P.S. My system is Win8 x64

thanks! this would truly be a great addition!

Please forgive me if I missed it somehow, but after reading this post (which was written by the PDN author around 5 years ago) there's mention of a "tool presets" function. e.g. you set up your box tool just so (colors, alpha blend, thickness etc) and could then save this as "my blue box #2" etc to be recalled later instead of a ton of clicks to set it up the way you want. Is this possible to do somehow & I just missed it? are there any plugins or something that could enable a feature like this? I'm using v3.5.8 now. thanks guys

I am not talking about the delay. The delay is fine. I am talking about the fact that as you mouse over the menus, you have 2 menu items highlighted at the same time. This is not consistent GUI design that's all I'm saying. look here's a video of a menu with submenus from a "normal" program (internet explorer), for comparison: ie_menu.mp4

i'm not talking about the delay. i'm talking about the way the menus highlight from one to the next as you mouse across them. i guess its too hard to explain, so here's a video of a normal menu & then the effects menu... notice the double highlights on the effects menu pdn.mp4

lol r u serious? anyway even if this was intentional... then why apply it to only that one menu?

Yep I know that's the way it works, just wondering why only that particular menu works like that....

Hi, yes this is a nitpicky thing but hey it keeps bugging me for some reason so I thought I might post it. The way the effects menu in PDN work is a bit "off" -- as you roll the mouse from one item to the next, the highlighted bar does not update the way a "normal" app does. It's a little hard to explain but if you try it you will definitely see what I mean. (compare to notepad or some other common windows app). I took a screenshot: What happens is like here I rolled onto Distort and "Blurs" stays highlighted for a moment- so its as if they are both selected. Then around ~1/2 second later the highlight on "Blurs" will disappear. It just looks klunky, I don't know if this is because PDN is using their own custom menu code or what. But, if there's any way to make it work normally it would be a nice fix. thanks!

Yes as a matter of fact I do have the files. There are 2 sets, one from 4/29 and the other from 5/3. They are slightly different but I believe both cause this problem to manifest itself. They are both included in the ZIP archive: bad_font_cache_files.zip

Hi guys, I believe I have fixed this issue on my system. I searched around on my HD for something related to this Font Cache, and found the following directory: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\ Inside were these files, which I deleted (made backups first just in case) FontCache-S-1-5-21-1948862929-1947518890-988191046-1000-8192.dat FontCache-System.dat FontCache3.0.0.0.dat once these files were deleted, it seemed to build this font cache almost instantly. Maybe one of the files was corrupt or had bad permissions? Anyway, still not 100% sure this fix is permanent but for now, it's worked for me.

thanks guys. No, nothing to worry about with my HDD. It's working normally and I test it regularly & make daily backups both to a local external HD as well as online via JungleDisk. The "grinding" is just normal HD activity but It is frustrating because it does take quite some time to build this "cache" even though I don't have too many fonts. I did try setting the Windows Font Cache Service to autostart and making sure it was running before launching Paint.NET and it didn't make any difference- the first time I used the text tool there was still the long delay and the heavy HD activity. I guess it would be nice if PDN built this font cache during launch so the text tool was "ready to use" right away. I believe that's what other apps like Photoshop, MS Word etc do.

hi I'm using PDN 3.5.5 final on win7 x64. I am not sure this is really a 'bug' but it is an annoyance. I use paint.net a lot for marking up screenshots, and so I use the text tool quite a bit to annotate. The thing is, after an initial launch, the first time I go to type something with the text tool, the disk grinds away for like 10-12 seconds while it builds some sort of font cache or something. After that, everything is fine until I quit & relaunch PDN again. I did not notice this problem with the 3.3.x builds. So somehow something has changed there......... maybe I have too many fonts installed (I dont think so, I have around 80 I guess) but I wanted to post and see if anyone else has this issue & if there is any workaround. cheers!