Wrong links on frontpage
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Wrong links on frontpage
Yes, yes I'm being impatient. But the two links on the download page both link to the same file.
A couple of small things:
- The lite beta ROCKS!
- Why aren't toolbar buttons atialiased yet? Buttons look a bit '95ish with plain transparency.
The lite beta told me it would expire in 30 days, a bug right?
A couple of small things:
- The lite beta ROCKS!
- Why aren't toolbar buttons atialiased yet? Buttons look a bit '95ish with plain transparency.
The lite beta told me it would expire in 30 days, a bug right?
Compare, for instance, the "up" and "back" button images in reglar windows explorer with the corresponding ones in x2. The win explorer button images look smoother, because the edge pixels are partially transparent, blending with the background.nikos wrote:i would have replied to that, if i understood what all these techniques are but anyway...
With gif, a pixel can only be fully transparent or opaque (RGB filled), creating a jagged edge on soft shapes. Png or .ico files allow a "per pixel" transparency using the alpha channel.
P.S. I'm not saying this is a big deal, it's just eyecandy. But it looks better.
I'm not really a graphics man, but I need some basic knowledge of the stuff for things I do at work. I use Photoshop which isn't excactly light. Gimp for Windows is starting to look pretty impressive, I would recommend that for the things you mention. http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.htmlnikos wrote:you are a graphics man, no?
if i want to create snapshots for the website and add effects like shadows and non-rectangular cuts, which program do i use?
(as small/light as possible)
Another fine piece of graphics software: Sodipodi. It's an Adobe Illustrator-like application.
http://www.sodipodi.com
http://www.sodipodi.com
rulle, do you know what format explorer's toolbar uses to have partial transparency? I thought explorer uses bitmaps as well. Having looked into the shell32.dll where the toolbar is stored, I can extract it as a bitmap. It may be the limitation of the reshacker software. However, AFAIK bitmaps can't have varying levels of transparency.
nikos, if you could implement a toolbar using PNG buttons, that would make it easier for users to customize the toolbar buttons (sets are easier to make from existing icons without much pixel tweaking needed). You can have the PNG strips holding the toolbar buttons be in a themes folder. There's a toolbar replacement program by the name of YzToolbar that does this for explorer and IE.
nikos, if you could implement a toolbar using PNG buttons, that would make it easier for users to customize the toolbar buttons (sets are easier to make from existing icons without much pixel tweaking needed). You can have the PNG strips holding the toolbar buttons be in a themes folder. There's a toolbar replacement program by the name of YzToolbar that does this for explorer and IE.
Without understanding anything about programming, I think this is linked to using GDI+ rather than GDI:
From msdn:
From msdn:
Comment in source code of an open-source app using button icons with alpha transparency (emule)About GDI+
Microsoft® Windows® GDI+ is the portion of the Windows XP operating system or Windows Server 2003 operating system that provides two-dimensional vector graphics, imaging, and typography. GDI+ improves on Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) (the graphics device interface included with earlier versions of Windows) by adding new features and by optimizing existing features.
// If GDI+ is available, use that API because it supports more file formats and images with alpha channels.
// That DLL is installed with WinXP is available as redistributable from Microsoft for Win98+. As this DLL
// may not be available on some OS but we have to link statically to it, we have to take some special care.