Trouble with transparency in non-perpixel borders
Flaky/unpredictable display lately
Thursday, January 18, 2007 by Daiwa | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Posted this in the OS Customization/Skinning forum, too, but I suspect more folks hang around here.
I'm having a heckuva time getting transparency to work consistently with non-perpixel borders lately. Used to be that magic pink worked fine but I happened to modify one of my skins a month or so ago to use magic pink & the magic pink would display, not the transparent bits. On a hunch, I changed to .tga images for left & right borders & that seemed to work, though sometimes either magic pink or black would display instead of the transparent bits & I'd have to reload the skin a few times to get the transparency to work. Now, using .tga's (imported .png's) for the left & right borders results in correct transparency of the right border but black pixels for the transparent bits in the left border no matter how many times I reload the skin. I tried switching back to .bmp's with magic pink & the magic pink shows, despite the fact that magic pink transparency works for the caption/titlebar (with a peculiar exception - see below.)
In addition, an oddity has surfaced with magic pink transparency in the caption/titlebar. I have magic pink pixels in the active titlebar only, but the corresponding pixels in the inactive titlebar paint as black, even though I haven't touched that part of the image.
Anyway, never seemed to have difficulty using magic pink in borders in 4.x or before (not sure I tried it with 5.x until this). I can't find a transparency switch for the non-perpixel borders and I'm not sure why .tga's display correctly at one time and not another, in one place and not another. I'd prefer to stick with .bmp's & magic pink, but that doesn't work for the left & right borders at all now.
Any advice?
TIA
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 84 x86))
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
You have one monitor in total.
(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 340M
Wblind.dll 2006/12/12 16:40:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/11/18 14:47:19
Wbconfig.exe 2006/12/20 13:35:02
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 18:26:49
I'm having a heckuva time getting transparency to work consistently with non-perpixel borders lately. Used to be that magic pink worked fine but I happened to modify one of my skins a month or so ago to use magic pink & the magic pink would display, not the transparent bits. On a hunch, I changed to .tga images for left & right borders & that seemed to work, though sometimes either magic pink or black would display instead of the transparent bits & I'd have to reload the skin a few times to get the transparency to work. Now, using .tga's (imported .png's) for the left & right borders results in correct transparency of the right border but black pixels for the transparent bits in the left border no matter how many times I reload the skin. I tried switching back to .bmp's with magic pink & the magic pink shows, despite the fact that magic pink transparency works for the caption/titlebar (with a peculiar exception - see below.)
In addition, an oddity has surfaced with magic pink transparency in the caption/titlebar. I have magic pink pixels in the active titlebar only, but the corresponding pixels in the inactive titlebar paint as black, even though I haven't touched that part of the image.
Anyway, never seemed to have difficulty using magic pink in borders in 4.x or before (not sure I tried it with 5.x until this). I can't find a transparency switch for the non-perpixel borders and I'm not sure why .tga's display correctly at one time and not another, in one place and not another. I'd prefer to stick with .bmp's & magic pink, but that doesn't work for the left & right borders at all now.
Any advice?
TIA
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 84 x86))
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
You have one monitor in total.
(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 340M
Wblind.dll 2006/12/12 16:40:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/11/18 14:47:19
Wbconfig.exe 2006/12/20 13:35:02
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 18:26:49
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Reply #1 Friday, January 19, 2007 11:12 AM