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transparent title bar

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 11:08am

infernacron

infernacron

967 posts

Gold - Lord

Does anyone know how to add that??
I really want it.
here's a pic of it!
you see the top where it says windows media player and how it's transparent?
i really want that!
http://www.vistaarticles.com/content_images/22dec-wmp11.png

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 11:34am

infernacron

infernacron

967 posts

Gold - Lord

guys please!
Please!!
Anyone I have been searching about how to do it and I looked through all the pages.!

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 11:55am

Captain_J_Sheridan

Captain_J_Sheridan

191 posts

Gold - Serf

To be honest I don't think it's possible, because that's more on the Windows side of things

You could take a look at the ExternalInterface class, but I don't think it can make the projector transparent

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 1:01pm

MarkedTarget6

MarkedTarget6

1,338 posts

Gold - Duke

yea it might be an add on or something i dunno or only comes with certain softwarre

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 1:49pm

infernacron

infernacron

967 posts

Gold - Lord

My mom has it for her laptop!

but the comp...
NO!

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 2:56pm

IqAndreas

IqAndreas

287 posts

Gold - Squire

I believe that that is only possible in .Net applications. It is probably some setting in the form's properties.

I use Visual Studio 2005, and in that version I am unable to make any part of the background of a form invisible.

I am, however, able to set the borders of the form to whatever shape I want. It might be possible to set up some advanced border that only includes 50% of the pixels in a set region.

Also, I believe this feature is only available in Vista (or perhaps the .Net framework 3.0). I have not used Vista extensively, but do all programs have transparent borders and title bars, or only certain MicroSoft software?

Do you understand what I mean? I'm terrible at explaining things. :-P Ask me to clarify if needed.

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 2:57pm

IqAndreas

IqAndreas

287 posts

Gold - Squire

What language are you using to accomplish this?

Or do you mean that you want it to be that way for all your programs on your XP computer?

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 2:58pm

infernacron

infernacron

967 posts

Gold - Lord

here's what I mean.
I want to get a transparent bar for firefox on windows xp.
and only firefox
english

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 3:09pm

IqAndreas

IqAndreas

287 posts

Gold - Squire

Not possible, unless Microsoft releases some extension that allows all of your windows to have the same formatting as Vista. Sorry.

So do all programs use the transparent layout in Vista, or just certain software?

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 3:13pm

IqAndreas

IqAndreas

287 posts

Gold - Squire

You could try posting the idea of transparent form borders in a Linux forum. Someone there might try it out, and if you are familiar with Linux, you'd have it.

Or you could go out and buy Vista on your computer, and then have to deal with non-compatible programs all the time.

I have heard that Microsoft is coming out with a new version of Windows pretty soon to make up for the Vista failure.

 

Posted Sep 7, '08 at 3:14pm

infernacron

infernacron

967 posts

Gold - Lord

you do now that i'm ONLY a 12 year old right?

 
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