alpha-blending

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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"?

/me considers it ironic that i have been watching this term thrown around for well over a year without actually really working out why
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Correct. hehehe!
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.)
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me 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.

/me 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.

/me thinks i will just give up now, and go back to bed
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmm. You're leaning. Well done. Cats DO have a brain. Hehehe.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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).
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
craeonics - I must say _my_ cat is a lot faster/smarter than this one.

/me didnt know that crae had a pussy
/me wonders why i have never seen this cat in the basement

i once scored 180 on an IQ test *giggle*
/me wonders where the illistrated dictionary for beginers with prity alpha-blended pictures is
/me wonders if crae's cat has made a bed out of it
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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).

/me thinks you have a MUCH faster machine than i do
/me thinks people should stop worshiping breakfast cerials, and go back to worshoping chocolate and cats