WindowBlinds + Vista = Full glass?
Aero must be capable of more
Thursday, March 29, 2007 by mufunyo | Discussion: WindowBlinds
One of the interesting things I've seen in Aero is that it takes a WinFX (I presume) aware application to have one of those glass toolbars like Explorer and IE have. The most striking example being the driver wizards, which are almost entirely glass. Any non-vista aware application gets a dull old grey toolbar.
So I'm wondering, how much do Vista's APIs expose to WindowBlinds regarding Aero effects? Would it be possible to make toolbars, menubars, scrollbars, buttons and status bars glass?
Hold on, I'll whip up a quick example.
Normal Glass effect:
Full Glass effect:
So I'm wondering, how much do Vista's APIs expose to WindowBlinds regarding Aero effects? Would it be possible to make toolbars, menubars, scrollbars, buttons and status bars glass?
Hold on, I'll whip up a quick example.
Normal Glass effect:
Full Glass effect:
Frogboy
Reply #2 Sunday, June 3, 2007 12:19 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, June 3, 2007 12:19 PM
Not in WindowBlinds 5. Only in WindowBlinds 6 which should go into beta soon.
vStyler
Reply #3 Sunday, June 3, 2007 1:14 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, June 3, 2007 1:14 PM
Only in WindowBlinds 6 which should go into beta soon.
mufunyo
Reply #4 Monday, June 4, 2007 12:21 PM
So it is a planned feature
That's nice. How about semi-glass? Having glass over the desktop wallpaper instead of over the underlying windows, like this:
Reply #4 Monday, June 4, 2007 12:21 PM
Not in WindowBlinds 5. Only in WindowBlinds 6 which should go into beta soon.
So it is a planned feature
That's nice. How about semi-glass? Having glass over the desktop wallpaper instead of over the underlying windows, like this:
thomassen
Reply #7 Monday, June 4, 2007 1:25 PM
Reply #7 Monday, June 4, 2007 1:25 PM
Never mind. Just realised it was the new 8.5 beta I've been having trubble downloading. Got it now. 
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Reply #1 Sunday, June 3, 2007 11:47 AM