alpha-blending
Monday, December 17, 2001 by feline | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
i think i may finally have worked out what all the fuss is about alpha blending, but i would be interested in knowing if i am correct or not.
i have recently downloaded the Logika skin for coolplayer, and am noticing that the curved edges are "steppy", on the scale of pixels by the looks of it.
so, if the edges were instead alpha blended, would they seemlesly blend into the "background"?
feline considers it ironic that i have been watching this term thrown around for well over a year without actually really working out why
i have recently downloaded the Logika skin for coolplayer, and am noticing that the curved edges are "steppy", on the scale of pixels by the looks of it.
so, if the edges were instead alpha blended, would they seemlesly blend into the "background"?
feline considers it ironic that i have been watching this term thrown around for well over a year without actually really working out why
feline
Reply #2 Monday, December 17, 2001 7:15 AM
Reply #2 Monday, December 17, 2001 7:15 AM
feline goes for irony++
i have been running windows fx on my win2k box at home for ages to achieve semi-transparent menus.
i did try making ALL my windows semi-transparent once, but since it then took me 3 minutes to move my cursor across the machine with 5 stacked windows, i decided to leave that until i got a more powerful machine.
feline achieves irony += 2
i spent part of the weekend playing with cursor xp, and making my windows cursors translucent, which is well cool.
and though all of this, i still hadnt got my head round the "window edge" uses of alpha-blending, thinking of translucent windows as a different effect.
feline thinks i will just give up now, and go back to bed
i have been running windows fx on my win2k box at home for ages to achieve semi-transparent menus.
i did try making ALL my windows semi-transparent once, but since it then took me 3 minutes to move my cursor across the machine with 5 stacked windows, i decided to leave that until i got a more powerful machine.
feline achieves irony += 2
i spent part of the weekend playing with cursor xp, and making my windows cursors translucent, which is well cool.
and though all of this, i still hadnt got my head round the "window edge" uses of alpha-blending, thinking of translucent windows as a different effect.
feline thinks i will just give up now, and go back to bed
Splash0453
Reply #3 Monday, December 17, 2001 7:27 AM
Reply #3 Monday, December 17, 2001 7:27 AM
Hmmm. You're leaning. Well done. Cats DO have a brain. Hehehe.
craeonics
Reply #4 Monday, December 17, 2001 10:40 AM
Reply #4 Monday, December 17, 2001 10:40 AM
I must say _my_ cat is a lot faster/smarter than this one.
GreenReaper
Reply #5 Monday, December 17, 2001 5:18 PM
Reply #5 Monday, December 17, 2001 5:18 PM
Must you?
Yeah, alpha-blending is nice. I'd just like to see it in WB borders. That would be cool with a big K (like that breakfast cereal people worship).
Yeah, alpha-blending is nice. I'd just like to see it in WB borders. That would be cool with a big K (like that breakfast cereal people worship).
feline
Reply #6 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:23 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:23 AM
Splash! - Hmmm. You're leaning. Well done. Cats DO have a brain. Hehehe.
do you really want to have this conversation?
worth pointing out that the human male is hardly renowned as a paragon of intelectual supremacy. that accolate is normaly reserved for the human female.
anyway, cats work on a different scale
do you really want to have this conversation?
worth pointing out that the human male is hardly renowned as a paragon of intelectual supremacy. that accolate is normaly reserved for the human female.
anyway, cats work on a different scale
feline
Reply #7 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:30 AM
Reply #7 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:30 AM
craeonics - I must say _my_ cat is a lot faster/smarter than this one.
feline didnt know that crae had a pussy
feline wonders why i have never seen this cat in the basement
i once scored 180 on an IQ test *giggle*
feline wonders where the illistrated dictionary for beginers with prity alpha-blended pictures is
feline wonders if crae's cat has made a bed out of it
feline didnt know that crae had a pussy
feline wonders why i have never seen this cat in the basement
i once scored 180 on an IQ test *giggle*
feline wonders where the illistrated dictionary for beginers with prity alpha-blended pictures is
feline wonders if crae's cat has made a bed out of it
feline
Reply #8 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:40 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:40 AM
TheGreenReaper - Yeah, alpha-blending is nice. I'd just like to see it in WB borders. That would be cool with a big K (like that breakfast cereal people worship).
feline thinks you have a MUCH faster machine than i do
feline thinks people should stop worshiping breakfast cerials, and go back to worshoping chocolate and cats
feline thinks you have a MUCH faster machine than i do
feline thinks people should stop worshiping breakfast cerials, and go back to worshoping chocolate and cats
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Reply #1 Monday, December 17, 2001 6:53 AM
Even more, an application that would use alpha blending could even have semi transparent parts where you could see your desktop through for example. But as far as I know, no application use alpha blending for windows. Alpha blending on XP is rather new and is for now only applicable to icons (where they indeed don't have a jagged edge and can also be semi-transparent.)