idea for windoblinds...

April 27, 2003 3:55 PM from

I was thinking, how about a masked alpha function for buttons and edges, the same way as xp icons?, would help all those rough edges.

also, multiple colour changes, instead of just 1 colour, maybe 2 or 3, so that more than 1 part of the skin can be changed.

and, maybe colour masks, instead of just grayscale ones, so that thins dont just come out in shades of the chosen colour, but a range of colours, like of the mask had a gradient from white to blue, and the user set the colour to be a shade of yello, the result would be a gradient from yellow to green..

- just some ideas, hope someone with power considers them.

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Reply #1 April 27, 2003 4:12 PM from

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Tga's can be used for smooth edges in WB. Although as yet, window borders don't support any form of per-pixel blending. (Fingers crossed though)

Reply #2 April 28, 2003 12:52 PM from

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bump

ObjectDock - Access shortcuts and frequently used applications from an animated dock.

Reply #3 April 28, 2003 1:20 PM from

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spinal: I seem to remember a long time ago frogboy posting a skin that used a multicolour mask to demonstrate this. The mask caused a rainbow type spotty effect on the titlebar. I have done the same with one of my skins to demonstrate:

http://pjpowell.dyndns.org/temp/multicolourmask.jpg

The spots are added by the mask. The original titlebar image is plain.

Reply #4 April 28, 2003 1:38 PM from

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TGA for window borders would be real bad

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