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#174; 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
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 PersonalizationWindows 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#174; 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
Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7
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 PersonalizationWindows 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#174; 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
Re: [DQSD-Users] Still struggling with colors on Win 7
Judging from your screenshot, it looks like a mix of the Vista and XP Blue themes. I can't speak for the themes implementation, I don't know it well enough, but if the default themes don't match your Windows coloring, you probably need to dive into the CSS and adapt them to go better with the system look. Cheers, - Kim On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 14:56, Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote: On my notebook computer I discovered Aero was disabled, and with it enabled my search bar looks even worse. Now not only is it black rather than transparent (or taskbar-color or whatever), the bottom quarter or so is a medium-blue color I don't recognize from anywhere... Is it only me? -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ 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 -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ 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
