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

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

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

First Version

toasts.jpg

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 :)

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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

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