REQUEST: Transparent or Frosted or Milk Glass Taskbar Tool ?

[@thehop]

Hello - some Days again  ^^

A new Request: is there a way to make an Application for frosted or milkglass transparency (bottom) Taskbar,
(like ColorTaskbar http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.msg7987#msg7987)
but only the background should transparent, not the fontcolors or thumbicons?

Style-Look-a-Like this ...



cheers - and happy new Years ! 

[Edvard]

Hey, that looks like a really cool idea.
I know there are already existing apps that make windows semi-transparent, maybe adding code to do a Gaussian Blur instead would be just the ticket.
There's a few links at the bottom of that Wikipedia page for C++ and Java implementations, but I'm not half the coder that most folks on this site are.

Any takers?

[Coeluh]

Hello - some Days again  ^^

A new Request: is there a way to make an Application for frosted or milkglass transparency (bottom) Taskbar,
(like ColorTaskbar http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.msg7987#msg7987)
but only the background should transparent, not the fontcolors or thumbicons?

Style-Look-a-Like this ...



cheers - and happy new Years ! 

For windows XP right?

[r0bertdenir0]

skrommel's got a nice autohotkey script called ghoster which highlights the foreground window & dims the non-active windows & desktop.
By setting a blurry glass picture as the image for his program you can create an effect much like this.
The demo above is cool as a concept but unless you have just 1 app open it would be unusable 2 have say a translucent spreadsheet over Firefox.
Give the Ghoster script a shot - use a frosted glass picture & set the transparency at about 80.