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frankell:
here I am with the link to my upload on Wincustomize http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/objectdock/17134/  ;)

at the moment it's still in moderation ...
sorry for the delay but I had to re-upload the skin without the Lucidity.exe embedded (on respect of new rules on Wincustomize) anyway now it's in the gallery
... and the link was not the same  !! but finally I noticed and now it's updated !

Blueplanet888:
Hello!

Lov' your Lucidity!  :-* ;)

I would like to suggest a few ergonomic change for a smoother utilisation. (That seems very easy for a programmer to do)
(Generally, it is the small details that make the difference between "average" and "great" programs)

1- Lucidity is not appropriate when playing a video (On VLC, no image is playing for example; but a foreground on a video is always bad... :down:)
=> It will be very useful to set a "pause/stop" (that deactivate the lucidity effect) wihtout having to exit the prog; i think that clicking left one time (for easy access) on the icone in the tray (possibly make the icone gray or red-strikethrough to indicate that it is in "pause/stop" mode) will be the best.
Not so difficult i think ?  ;D [if it's only one minor change that you can make, i take this one!]

2- Why make a restriction on the tray menu "10%,20%,30%" etc... when the program can make a 1% difference ? (in the config.ini file) My idea is to make a vertical slider (There is the easy & optimal space where the "20% to 90%" are written in the tray menu) that can make a 1% difference. (For ergonomic purpose, i suggest to indicate the current % in number too... below the slider, where the "10%" is written)

If you can't make a sliding bar (it happens lol), simply make a "manual number entry" beetween 0 & 100 (%) that the user will enter by keyboard (wich changes the .ini etc...) it will be entirely sufficent! (less "smooth" than a slider though.)

For the "modification effect" of all this, i don't know if it can be made "Realtime" to see the level of transparency by sliding or entering the number... (it will be nice) But i think you can easily take it "effective" when the user push "Enter" (or click a "Change" bouton next to the number) after writting the number (without exiting the tray menu for Not Bullying the user) or make it the same by the slider. (Slide & See the number & "Enter" (or click "change") & See if it's the right amount of lucidity on screen!  :Thmbsup:)

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An additional idea for further development (if Santa comes and commands you to make it NOW!  :tellme:) would be to autodetect the wallpaper image (Windows knows in the registry or other file which file it must wallpaperIZE. So you can stole the path from it there i think.) on prog startup and do a change is it's necessary. [And if that is active, a "Reload Wallpaper" would be a good idea in the tray menu to manually indicate that we have changed that when the prog was already running, and it will automatically set a new appropriate lucidity effect for the new Wallpaper then.)


Thankx for reading! (No, i am not a Machine; i Have a heart too!  :P ;D)
Hoping for some sugar-change for the next "Lucidity" !

skwire:
Hi, Blueplanet888, and welcome to the site.  Here you go:

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v1.0.2 - 2011-09-07
    + Added slider to adjust transparency.  (Thanks, Blueplanet888)
    + Single-clicking the tray icon will now toggle the transparency effect. (Thanks, Blueplanet888)
    - Removed the 10%, 20%, 30% etc, entries from the tray menu in lieu of the slider.

An additional idea for further development (if Santa comes and commands you to make it NOW!  :tellme:) would be to autodetect the wallpaper image (Windows knows in the registry or other file which file it must wallpaperIZE. So you can stole the path from it there i think.)-Blueplanet888 (September 07, 2011, 09:52 AM)
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The problem with this is that there are so many of these "standard" locations across all the Windows versions that I'm not sure this is feasible.  Windows XP has three or four alone and I don't know about Vista and 7.

Blueplanet888:
Simply Marvelous ! (and the little "popup" when hovering the tray "Lucidity - Transparency: xx%" is great to see the number directly!)
Works like a charm! (Even nearly-realtime adjustement with the slider! Ergonomics is thanking you!  :Thmbsup:)

Great Thankx for all and for the LightSpeed making of! (Are you sure that you haven't crossed space-time and made it Before i asked ?  ;D 8))

 :-*

skwire:
Making that slider work in realtime is easy.  However, it chewed up so much CPU that I chose not to implement it.  If you want to approximate it, just use the up and down keys once you focus that slider.

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