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Glass Toast for Vista, longhorn 4xxx style notification balloons
AndreasV
Post #1 Jan 26 2007, 22:50


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in Vista, the balloon popups look like the ones from XP.


However, at some point in the longhorn beta's, they actually looked like this:


I wanted to recreate that effect for vista, and made a small application to do so: GlassToastst.

First Version



What's working?
+ intercept notification balloons and replace them with a glass toast (longhorn 4xxx style)
+ notifications give the same response as real balloons (eg. "click here balloons" initiates the same acation with glass toasts)
+ made stuff a bit prettier.

What's stupid?
+ all offset values are hardcoded. All others are derived from bitmap sizes.
+ stupid DWM blurring: mask.bmp is used for masking out the blur on parts that should be 100% transparent; white = invisible; black=visible in the mask.bmp
+ occasionally some problems (seems not all applications use the correct flags)

Download
http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/glasstoast.zip

Danny helped with some resources, for which I thank him gratefully smile.gif
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Post #2 Jan 26 2007, 22:55


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It Looks great smile.gif cant wait til i install vista and use this.
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Post #3 Jan 26 2007, 22:59


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Nice effect
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Post #4 Jan 26 2007, 23:01


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cool. nice work.
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Post #5 Jan 26 2007, 23:01


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Does this work for 64bit?
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Post #6 Jan 26 2007, 23:03


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No. If someone has a x64 bit compiler, he can ask me for the source.
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Post #7 Jan 26 2007, 23:07


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sad.gif aww
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Post #8 Jan 26 2007, 23:15


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Still alot of work todo, personally I think there's alot of wasted space...much prefer vistas.
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Post #9 Jan 26 2007, 23:19


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It works good so far
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Post #10 Jan 26 2007, 23:22


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needs padding, smaller corners, and white bg.
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Post #11 Jan 26 2007, 23:37


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This is very interesting. I look forward to seeing the progress.
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Post #12 Jan 27 2007, 01:25


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ill be watching this biggrin.gif
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Post #13 Jan 27 2007, 09:11


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Nice effect, but not work with vista x64 cry.gif
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Post #14 Jan 27 2007, 10:38


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Very interesting! Will be keeping an eye on this one:)
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Post #15 Jan 27 2007, 15:04


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Looks good. If I install Vista again I'll definitely give it a try smile.gif
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