Glow and transparency in Vista-titlebars
Using Windowblinds 5 with Vista 3.1 Glass
Friday, December 30, 2005 by Richterprodukt | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Hello,
today I congratulate myself for buying Windowblinds 5!
Two problems now: There's a strong white glow-effekt around the text in the titlebars. This sucks. It looks cheap.
Look at this example:
How to correct this one?
Furthermore I want to affect the level of transparency of the titlebar itself. With the Vista-Glass-Theme everything looks very chaotic, if many windows are overlapping each other. No clarity here. Ok, now you could say, that I don't have to use the glass-theme ... but I want to, coz of the glassy borders.
Another one: Is there a vista-style available with a bright taskbar and not with such dark (black) colors? Color adjustment doesn't work fine enough.
Thanks for help!
Levare from Germany
today I congratulate myself for buying Windowblinds 5!
Two problems now: There's a strong white glow-effekt around the text in the titlebars. This sucks. It looks cheap.
Look at this example:
How to correct this one?
Furthermore I want to affect the level of transparency of the titlebar itself. With the Vista-Glass-Theme everything looks very chaotic, if many windows are overlapping each other. No clarity here. Ok, now you could say, that I don't have to use the glass-theme ... but I want to, coz of the glassy borders.
Another one: Is there a vista-style available with a bright taskbar and not with such dark (black) colors? Color adjustment doesn't work fine enough.
Thanks for help!
Levare from Germany
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Reply #2 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:28 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:28 AM
I've noticed that for obvious reasons the gimmicks like glass-distortion aren't in WB5. Couldn't one perhaps try kind of 'hacking' this by multiplying the underlaying colors with a heightmap (such as one can build using the nVidia-Plugin for PS)? Or would this eat up too much performance?
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Reply #1 Friday, December 30, 2005 4:17 PM
All Vista skins I have seen have the dark Vista taskbar, thats why they are Vista style.