> Checking back over the emails. Did you confirm that we (you and I) are > using the same DQSD Win7 Theme pack developed my Matt?
Yes, in fact you've sent it to me. > do ANY of the color > or tint a or transparency settings have ANY effect on the > color/tint/transparency of the DQSD Search Bar? Nossir. > Perhaps someone else with Windows 7 installed can confirm this. That's what I been sayin! :) > -----Original Message----- > From: James Nix [mailto:ni...@charter.net] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:55 PM > To: kai...@comcast.net; 'DQSD users mailing list' > Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 > > Michael, > > Checking back over the emails. Did you confirm that we (you and I) are > using the same DQSD Win7 Theme pack developed my Matt? > > In Windows 7 on the Personalization>Windows Color page do ANY of the > color > or tint a or transparency settings have ANY effect on the > color/tint/transparency of the DQSD Search Bar? > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kai...@comcast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:33 PM > To: 'Kim Gräsman' > Cc: 'DQSD users mailing list' > Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 > > I took a look at theme.css (Win7 version) and saw it uses 7toolbar1.bmp > to > draw the backgrounds, and that turns out to be a 1-pixel wide column of > black pixels with a two-pixel decoration at the top. So I made one like > it > using my toolbar blue. It looks almost perfect, except you'll note the > light > top-shadow is one pixel thicker over the search bar than the rest of the > toolbar (fig. 1). For some reason DQSD is putting two pixels of light > blue > where the bmp only has one (fig. 2). > > Anyway my original question remains... how does this work for anyone > whose > toolbar isn't black to start? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim.gras...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:47 AM > > To: kai...@comcast.net > > Cc: DQSD users mailing list > > Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7 > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:16, Michael Kairys <kai...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > >> ... it looks like a mix of the Vista and XP Blue themes. > > > > > > Thanks for the hint, Kim; I tried a complete reinstall, applying the > > win7 > > > theme patch before instancing the search bar, and now at least I > > > have consistent results on both machines. The bar doesn't match my > > > taskbar > > color > > > but at least it is homogenous (see attached). > > > > > >> you probably need to dive into the CSS and adapt them to go better > > with > > > the system look. > > > > > > What puzzles me is that other people (e.g. James Nix on Win 7 > > > 64-bit) > > seem > > > to get a transparent search bar that lets their Win 7 theme colors > > > show through. > > > > I seem to recall the themes were designed not to be transparent, but > > to have the same color as the various themes (there's one Olive, one > > Silver and one XP blue, for example). Maybe James system color happens > > to match the DQSD theme color? > > > > > I could perhaps tweak the search bar color to match the taskbar > > > color but (1) the taskbar is sort of a gradient fill rather than a > > uniform > > > color, (2) if I changed my windows theme of course the search bar > > > would > > no > > > longer match, and (3) I haven't found, in my various poking, how to > > > do > > that! > > > > Again, I don't know enough CSS to style my way out of a double-door, > > so I don't think I can help :) > > > > - Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
