Taskbar Sizing Bar Transparency
True Trans Possible?
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Daiwa | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Currently using XPP SP3, WB7.
I tried importing a totally transparent .png as the sizing bar for my current skin & it 'works' sorta - but it just substitutes the underlying wallpaper for the bar. Using Auto-Hide, there is a strip of wallpaper where the sizing bar should be when the taskbar pops up.
Is there a setting that I'm missing? Both transparency & translucency are enabled. Using non-perpixel frames.
Thanks!
Reply #3 Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:51 PM
No love - same results using magic pink with translucency disabled.
Reply #4 Thursday, April 1, 2010 9:09 PM
I have found that WB/SKS do not like completely transparent images. Try this: make the resizing bar a one pixel line and take the opacity down to somewhere around 10% to 20%. See if that does it for you.
Reply #5 Thursday, April 1, 2010 9:47 PM
xp doesnt do true trans behind taskbar elements...it IS a snapshot of the wallpaper.
Reply #6 Friday, April 2, 2010 4:39 AM
I have never made my XP sizing bar a transparent image. I always do a traditional bmp image, usually a 3px high edge. The sizing bar disappears anyway when you lock the taskbar. I also have found that with SKS 7, that you can't make the system tray completely transparent either...you have to have at least a 1 by 1 pixel image/color in it.
Reply #7 Friday, April 2, 2010 5:22 AM
i tried both png and bmp recently in xp and got grief in both results, but it was only until i made the taskbar go straight across (not cutting off on the edges like the diamond style) that it worked out okay for me. but thats not a solution i know.
Reply #8 Friday, April 2, 2010 11:04 AM
Thanks, guys/gals. An opaque sizing bar isn't as elegant but will have to do - a transparent but functional sizing bar for AutoHide would be very nice, which was what I was shooting for. My particular circumstances require I use as much screen real estate as possible for max'd apps, hence the motivation.
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:36 PM
For the XP sizing bar, I found I had to use a bmp, not a png, even though the taskbar itself is a png...go figure! Try making it a bmp and use magic pink for the bar.