I've asked this before....
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jdsabin1
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09-21-2002, 09:13 PM -
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A while back and Yuri was going to look into it.

Is there a way to make the latest beta appear transparent so the Icons appear to be free standing and not attached to the TLB.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, wondering if that is possible.

Thanks,

-Jeff
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09-22-2002, 06:07 AM -
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Personally, I would like to see seperate transparency settings for TLB background, menu icons, shortcuts, menus, icons inside the menus, menu text, and menu borders. Possibly even seperate settings for the different states of items (normal, down, active, etc). Maybe the easiest way to accomplish this would be something I've seen in other skinnable applications: alpha blending. Basically, for every bitmap in your skin, you have another greyscale bitmap that determines the tranparency level of that bitmap. White is opaque, black is completely transparent, and the different shades of grey are different levels of transparency. If you allowed icons to be bitmaps, you could pass this functionality on to them, as well. Or just have seperate trancparency sliders for icons. Here's an example of alpha blending:
WinXP Pro (5.1.2600) SP1 TLB 3.0 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Shell 6.0.2800.1106
Command Line 3.3.0.0 Process Viewer 2.0.0.0 Calculator 1.0.0.0
Weather Forecast 1.0.0.0 Media Control 4.0.0.0 Volume Control 2.1.0.0
Net Monitor 1.4.0.0 Up Time 2.1.0.0 System Monitor 2.4.0.0
Drive Space 2.3.0.0 Mail Monitor 1.9.9.0 TLB Clock 1.3.0.0
khoury
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09-28-2002, 11:48 PM -
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I've noticed that those kinds of apps take major resources. Perhaps it could be an add on so users without uber systems can still use tlb?
shapeshifter
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09-29-2002, 04:40 AM -
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Well, my idea was to essentially make it an add on, and the skin determines if it's needed. In other words, why both using the alpha tranparency code (which does slow down the computer some) if the skin doesn't need it? It'd be similar to the "Transparent = TRUE" (or FALSE) field in the current skin config file.
WinXP Pro (5.1.2600) SP1 TLB 3.0 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Shell 6.0.2800.1106
Command Line 3.3.0.0 Process Viewer 2.0.0.0 Calculator 1.0.0.0
Weather Forecast 1.0.0.0 Media Control 4.0.0.0 Volume Control 2.1.0.0
Net Monitor 1.4.0.0 Up Time 2.1.0.0 System Monitor 2.4.0.0
Drive Space 2.3.0.0 Mail Monitor 1.9.9.0 TLB Clock 1.3.0.0


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