WindowFX 2.1: Why wait for Longhorn?
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Great minds think alike it seems. Over the past few months Stardock has been working on a host of new effects for WindowFX 2.1. One of the new effects is controlling how windows are displayed when you move them. Now there's a whole set of different effects to choose from when you move a window. More importantly, on a decent video card (such as the ATI Radeon with the new drivers just released) having these effects are completely hardware accelerated so you don't take a big speed hit using them.
Check out this video to see it in action: https://www.stardock.com/video/winfx21.wmv (or with Quicktime https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/wfx_video.html)
WindowFX 2.1 is now available on Object Desktop. If you don't have Object Desktop, you can get it at http://www.objectdesktop.com
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Reply #2 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:43 PM
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Reply #4 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:56 PM
, that looks kind of funny. 
But it works quite well with latest Detonators.Reply #5 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:09 PM
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Reply #10 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:49 PM
Very cool stuff. Kudos!
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Reply #15 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 2:35 AM
From what I have read MS is replacing GDI and GDI+ with their new 3d interface so windows will be made from the ground up 3d.
WindowfX only has the windows as 3d objects when they are being animated and it runs on top of the normal GDI and GDI+.
As a result in longhorn you can be animating and interacting with applications at the same time, and have them be transparent. You can have a notepad htat is spinning while you type in it. WindowfX can't do this AFAIK.
Not that I'm saying it's a crappy product. It's good for the meantime. But to say it's just like longhorn is not true.
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Reply #19 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:56 AM
confirmed that i cannot play this in windows media player 8
Reply #20 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:02 PM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:02 PM