Black Boxes When Running iRise In Parallels

If like most of us here at OneSpring use iRise on an Apple Macintosh running Parallels, you may get black boxes around the menu items, icons, etc.

Parallels has a problem displaying transparent images that use a black background.

There are two fixes.  The quickest is to change your screen resolution to 16 bit.  In Windows XP, Right-click on your desktop and select "Properties".  Click on the "Settings" tab and change the "Color Quality" setting to "Medium (16 bit)".

The slightly more complex fix is to find the "iRiseStudio.lax" file, open in WordPad and add the following line to the bottom of the file:

sun.java2d.nodraw=2

Save the file and the black boxes should disappear.

Comments

[Anon]

Changing the .lax file doesn't seem to work for iRise 7.3. However, setting the screen resolution to 16 bit does work.

[Chuck Konfrst]

It's odd. Editing the .lax file seems to only sporadically work.