Submission details
[7057] Some gadgets show a black bar at the bottom [fixed]
In build 7057, some gadgets seem to show a black bar at the bottom. It happens with both MS included gadgets as well as 3rd party ones. It doesn't appear immediately after adding the gadget, but possibly after resuming from sleep or hibernation. It also only happens with relatively small gadgets - for instance, the weather gadget doesn't show the bar when maximised. See screenshot.
It's almost as if the minimum height for gadgets has been increased, and the black bar fills whatever area is left from the gadget's own background.
Fix it.
Low
Low
Fixed
Discussion (8 comments)
Did you report this to MSFT? This sounds like a bug and not a UI quirk
Yeah I have seen this, too, but I think it doesn't belong here and that's why I have not posted this.
Larry, he just did. You saw this, so now its reported ;)
7057 was not ment for public use, but its real stable
Larry: what'd be the best place to report this, then? Build 7057 doesn't include the Send Feedback utility.
When you got 7057, you got it through some official Microsoft channel. That channel has some form of feedback mechanism, use that to report it to Microsoft.
This is not a product support forum and it is not a feedback channel for Windows 7. There are ample product support feedback channels available for the public releases of Windows.
Larry, 7057 was LEAKED. Most who have 7057 got it off a torrent site. You should know this by now, other wise, your one oblivious Microsoft employee.
If you have a problem with this site, then talk to long. quit complaining. Microsoft's feedback sites are not user friendly. The blogs are filled with spam in the comments, your forums are scattlerd around and have many different designs
People dont like to post feedback to you guys because none of your feedback sites are user friendly.
I do agree with you though, but the problem is how well design your feedback portals are. most scare people
I agree with Chris on this one. Most people who are running build 7057 (including myself) got it from bittorrent and so have no official feedback channel to use. You could of course argue that it's my problem and I should've just stuck with the Beta, but the reality is that pretty much every Windows enthusiast who's trying Win7 is going to use the latest build, whether officially available or leaked. That group of people is also the ones most likely to contribute actual bug reports, so rejecting their feedback is simply shooting yourself in the foot.
I did try Googling for "report Windows 7 bugs", but didn't see any immediately relevant results. Mostly I just found blog and forum posts about Win7 bugs.
xombie wrote on March 18, 2009, 2:26pm
I'm seeing the black bars in a few other places too.
After resuming from sleep. Did not happen in 7022.