Dreadlau wrote:I tried. And it didn't work.
Can you show me a screenshot of your result?
Sorry for the late reply, busy working day.
Actually you might be right, well half right, i tried to make my own Vitreous Miniplayer with the transparency but i've come across a few problems:
First thing: As you can see the player is transparent with notepad file underneath, however there's a ghost frame for the player background. This ghosting must be something to do with TE since changing the colour of the taskbar also changes the colour of the ghost frame accordingly.
Second thing: Something that Im not up-to-scratch with is the masking of buttons in theme editor. Somehow nohitter has darkened the edges of all buttons so that they blend into the Aero frame. This gives the buttons a polished look around the edges but i have no idea how to do that.
Third thing: Nothing to do with the problems above, well I used the wrong seekbar box, it should be plain white like the volume enclosed box. I will change this if there's solutions to problems 1 and 2. Also in the process, I'll update the maximise/minimise buttons to match the main theme skin.
So yeh to summarise, it is possible to make a transparent miniplayer but it's not perfect. If anyone is willing to help me out on problems 1 and 2 i'll give this Microplayer a green light (assuming there's a demand!)
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EDIT:
Problem 1 may have been fixed mostly. Just added AeroEnabled in the ini file and most of the ghost frame has disappeared. There's a little bit of ghosting still left but i think that is related to problem 2 which on the original skin there's i think a darker pink to get the full transparency but still cant figure this out.
Is there a wiki page on TE masks?
[quote="Dreadlau"]I tried. And it didn't work.
Can you show me a screenshot of your result?[/quote]
Sorry for the late reply, busy working day.
Actually you might be right, well half right, i tried to make my own Vitreous Miniplayer with the transparency but i've come across a few problems:
[img]http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4645/mmtransparentmicroplaye.png[/img]
First thing: As you can see the player is transparent with notepad file underneath, however there's a ghost frame for the player background. This ghosting must be something to do with TE since changing the colour of the taskbar also changes the colour of the ghost frame accordingly.
Second thing: Something that Im not up-to-scratch with is the masking of buttons in theme editor. Somehow nohitter has darkened the edges of all buttons so that they blend into the Aero frame. This gives the buttons a polished look around the edges but i have no idea how to do that.
Third thing: Nothing to do with the problems above, well I used the wrong seekbar box, it should be plain white like the volume enclosed box. I will change this if there's solutions to problems 1 and 2. Also in the process, I'll update the maximise/minimise buttons to match the main theme skin.
So yeh to summarise, it is possible to make a transparent miniplayer but it's not perfect. If anyone is willing to help me out on problems 1 and 2 i'll give this Microplayer a green light (assuming there's a demand!) :D
-----------------------------------------
EDIT:
Problem 1 may have been fixed mostly. Just added AeroEnabled in the ini file and most of the ghost frame has disappeared. There's a little bit of ghosting still left but i think that is related to problem 2 which on the original skin there's i think a darker pink to get the full transparency but still cant figure this out.
Is there a wiki page on TE masks?