Windowblinds and Flip3d programs in WINDOWS XP

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by Wiseppi | Discussion: WindowBlinds

When will stardock colaborate with the FLip3d apps for Windows XP especially Topdesk? Its very annoying that the aero-like borders disappear when entering to flip mode...
Halluci
Reply #1 Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:41 AM
I think that has more to do with the way topdesk implements its flipping effect than stardock making windowblinds incompatible with flip3D (you'll likely have to ask topdesk to fix this problem, not stardock in other words). In any case, it's a lot harder to get 3d aero effects on xp than on vista, because XP does not have DWM functionality that makes a lot of the blur/transparency/realtime thumbnail effects of vista possible.

Wiseppi
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:59 AM
Quote from OtakuSoftware:

"To draw the window borders we'd have to have access to the WindowBlinds border image data. To do that we'd need to somehow integrate with WindowBlinds, and unfortunately without the assistance of StarDock there's no way we can do that."

Seems that the programmers of topdesk thinks that is stardock that should colaborate...

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