AndreasV Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Green Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 It Looks great :) cant wait til i install vista and use this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaGinger Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Nice effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 cool. nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SionicIon Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Does this work for 64bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasV Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 No. If someone has a x64 bit compiler, he can ask me for the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SionicIon Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 :( aww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Still alot of work todo, personally I think there's alot of wasted space...much prefer vistas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnCoKiLLa Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 It works good so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nub Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 needs padding, smaller corners, and white bg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island Dog Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 This is very interesting. I look forward to seeing the progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 ill be watching this :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Nice effect, but not work with vista x64 :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synchro Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Very interesting! Will be keeping an eye on this one:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOOOD Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Looks good. If I install Vista again I'll definitely give it a try :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meraklis56 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Nice Add-On and its only 1.6mb in Ram.Now i am waiting for baloon popups! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasV Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 I'm working on a XP compatible version :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasV Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 added some more: + dropshadow (an unshadowed png is also there). + options (half working for now) + masking the blur is finally working correct now + fixed a deadlock bug with icon retrieval + more stuff. + hopefully xp compatible. x64: get me a working x64 compiler and you'll get it. http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/glasstoast.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Much nicer, thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 What did you write it in? I have VS.NET 2005 installed and can compile it for x64 if you'd like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 + hopefully xp compatible. It isn't. I'm on XP pro SP2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasV Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 It would be helpfully if you say what doesn't work under XP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardsim7 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I tried it XP SP2...just didn't work, at all. I pressed start, then balloon, nothing happened :( -Rich- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Alright dude, well I'm going out to watch the hockey game and probably will be gone for the night so send me a PM if you want me to see about compiling it here on x64 or if you find someone else then that's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I tried it XP SP2...just didn't work, at all. I pressed start, then balloon, nothing happened :( -Rich- That's what happened with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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