Transparent Rightclick
Saturday, April 7, 2007 by Skyjax | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Hi there, I use rightclick quite a lot and was wondering if anyone knew why you can't skin a transparent RC? to complement a few themes like Vista by Gef, the side bar is transparent, i was told by Fairy who is an excellent skinner, that RC dont support it like normal skinning Themes, the text goes pink !! can anyone say why. I would have thought it's possible because you can do Themes, Objectdock, and almost anything else in DesktopX but you can't with RC, any light on this would be appreciated.
Fairyy~
Reply #2 Saturday, April 7, 2007 8:43 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, April 7, 2007 8:43 AM
Just to elaborate on this - Skyjax is really looking for something along the lines of a " clear " widget type design.( Which isn't really 100% clear)
Because RightClick uses BMP's with magic pink rather than PNG's ( the PNG's can be saved at 10 or 20% transparency and the BMP's can't, as you know )
So Ideally if RightClick could make it skinnable with PNG's rather than BMP's that would work out great.
That would open up the possibility of RightClick skins with rounded corners etc.
Because RightClick uses BMP's with magic pink rather than PNG's ( the PNG's can be saved at 10 or 20% transparency and the BMP's can't, as you know )
So Ideally if RightClick could make it skinnable with PNG's rather than BMP's that would work out great.
That would open up the possibility of RightClick skins with rounded corners etc.
Fairyy~
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:54 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:54 AM
This is SS of the same RC skin as in #1 - that shot was with font set on ' standard' in Display properties.
This is same RightClick transparent skin with font set to ' Clear Type '
which is what most have their fonts set on so this would never work out at the moment - the magic pink shows right through the white font on clear type.
This is same RightClick transparent skin with font set to ' Clear Type '
which is what most have their fonts set on so this would never work out at the moment - the magic pink shows right through the white font on clear type.
Lantec
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:30 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:30 AM
Thanks for the info Fairyy~ 
Have you tried using a tga for the background? I know it accepts them for the separator.
Have you tried using a tga for the background? I know it accepts them for the separator.
Fairyy~
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:45 AM
I was just kinda hoping maybe Stardock might do some more with this program - its one of the most useful but doesnt get that much hype.
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:45 AM
Thanks for the info Fairyy~
I was just kinda hoping maybe Stardock might do some more with this program - its one of the most useful but doesnt get that much hype.
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Reply #1 Saturday, April 7, 2007 8:09 AM
Seems I can get make one that is transparent but only if I do not use the font on bold
- which makes the font a bit rough looking and the separators will show with magic pink so they had to go too. ( bold font shows magic pink )
I'll work on it some more..
but this is what it looks like with an arial 8 font: