Black Background on Windows Vista

[mwhagedorn]

The background of windows is black when using windows vista

[steveklabnik]

Is this any window? Could you provide a sample of code that does this?

[evolve2k]

We have the same issue.

This issue affects ALL our shoes projects. It also makes most apps unusable as the default black text on the black background mean that you can't see nuthn :)

When I use the code below, the output has a black background no matter what I try to do, after pressing the 'Click Me!' button the background changes to red as desired, It's just that I can' get the code to initialize to white or yellow, rather than black.

Shoes.app do background yellow button "Click me!" do alert "Good Job!" background red end end

Currently using shoes policeman revision 1514, which is Shoes3 downloaded today off the main shoes website today (28 May 2011). We are also using Vista.

I reverted to an earlier version of shoes, revision 1134 and it fixes the problem.

Please fix so we can use the latest version of shoes with Vista, happy to test once you've created a fix. Just drop me a line.

Cheers

Richie @evolve2k

[steveklabnik]

We're working on it. Vista Is totally terrible, and this is a high priority bug, right after 1.9.2 compliance.

Gotta fix crashes before we can fix display errors, you know?

[evolve2k]

No worries, thanks Steve!

[bananastalktome]

I was having this same problem in vista (all windows except splash were all black background, except for the form elements). I was able to work around the issue by running shoes in Windows XP compatibility mode. Works great now, wanted to share this tip.