I've been using Win7 on my default desktop, and if it weren't for some very custom styles, DQSD wouldn't look even remotely similar to the rest of the taskbar AND be legible. I use a white font, for example, on a dark grey medium intensity toolbar. The white font alone was a challenge to get consistent. The important thing was to set the background to solid black (totally unexpected) since that's what the base color was. You'd think Windows would have been smarter about that, and asserted the background colors uniformly across the taskbar. Nope.
I haven't had time over the last few months to toy with this more than a little, so haven't made any progress on developing a uniform "single style" that'll work everywhere, on every background color and intensity. My current workload is simply intense, BUT, as soon as one of these large jobs I have in the works is done I'll be able to spend some more time playing with that. I also intend to develop the XML settings stuff, but that's not really related to this. :) -Shawn > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kai...@comcast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:48 AM > To: 'James Nix'; 'DQSD users mailing list' > Subject: 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 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. 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