101 replies to this topic 2 votes

[AndreasV]

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

[Jordan Green]

It Looks great cant wait til i install vista and use this.

[NinjaGinger]

Nice effect

[Koolslacker]

cool. nice work.

[Sionic Ion]

Does this work for 64bit?

[AndreasV]

No. If someone has a x64 bit compiler, he can ask me for the source.

[Sionic Ion]

aww

[azz0r_wugg]

Still alot of work todo, personally I think there's alot of wasted space...much prefer vistas.

[JnCoKiLLa]

It works good so far

[nub]

needs padding, smaller corners, and white bg.

[Island Dog]

This is very interesting. I look forward to seeing the progress.

[Meshuggah]

ill be watching this

[Matrix]

Nice effect, but not work with vista x64

[synchro]

Very interesting! Will be keeping an eye on this one:)

[FOOOD]

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