Re: Free Vista Buttons 5.5 Crack
Irineo Kortig
I did some research into this as I implemented this too in my own multi-monitor solution. The way DisplayFusion and TeamViewer implemented this is overlaying a custom form over the desired window containing the buttons. You can use Spy++ to confirm this.
As long as you're willing to redraw the entire title-bar contents, then you can use the DWM API's DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea method, which involves setting your window to have no titlebar, allowing the DWM to draw its glass into your usable area to create a new space that looks like the titlebar but is in fact in your client area, so that you can draw buttons onto it.
The downside of this method is that you'll have to make the standard buttons if you want them. Minimize, Maximize and Close are no problem to recreate (though you'll find that the maximize button is a togglebutton with appearance based on the state), but you might find you have issue with recreating the top-left corner button. You'll also have to redraw your title, of course, but I can't imagine you'll have any issue with that.
As for reading the current theme's data back to restyle your buttons as theirs, I'm sorry but I don't know anything about that. My suggestion would be to use transparency when building your buttons onto the titlebar, and to use translucent glow-effects, etcetera. That way you'll be able to retain the glass background, and simply modify its appearance by overlaying a translucent colour. Also, if you do it this way, then the shifting specular highlights on the glass will move naturally, whereas if you simply got their theme colours you'd find either that you didn't get access to their reflections or that they recreated afresh within the space of your buttons. Just my two cents, of course - if you can find a way to do your theme colours etcetera, by all means.
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I have the taskbar on the left side of the screen because my monitor is so wide, and the buttons are a bit too flat for my liking. How can I increase their height, so that they look more like Windows 7 buttons? Or, even better, display large symbols (32x32 px) in them instead of the usual small ones?
I recently downloaded Chroma-Q Vista 3 software primarily because the new FX Master feature. I thought FINALLY I will be able to start an effect with a push of a button. After trying Vista 3 out it seems that the FX Master is not really what the name implies but only sets BPM or sequence. Am I wrong? Is there a way to start effects with a button press? If there were I would really be looking at replacing my M1 with an MV because of the extra buttons available in combination with the function keys!
Instead it would be nice if all these things could be set one button press. I like to think of the M1 as my instrument that contributes to mood and flow of the performance. With maybe 50 or 60 of my favorite effects assigned to buttons, I could select them at will to contribute to the performance. As the performance changes, I think it would be nice to start and stop effects on top of whatever background colors are in the a particular cue. It would be like Jazz but only with lights.
Understanding the 4 colored modifier buttons is crucial to operating lighting during any experience. You may not use these buttons often, but when pressed, they can completely change how the control surface operates. Here is a breakdown of how each button affects the control surface when pressed.
Modifier buttons are meant to be used like the "Command", "Control", "Option", or "Alt" keys on your keyboards. When pushed alone, they do not have a function, but when held down in addition to pushing a select, or play button, they can change the functionality of the control surface.
Our result will look like the silver buttons which come with vista. The following picture is the result of the tutorial (I won't be adding a picture of the vista buttons as I made this tutorial on my girlfriends vista computer and forgot to screenshot them).
If you are one of the many that's been left unimpressed with Vista but like the look of it, Vista Buttons is for you. It helps you create Vista/XP/Win98 and Mac style rollover buttons and drop down menus with relative ease.
The interface requires 4 simple steps to create your buttons. You can create your own base on the program although if you import one of your own images as a base, you'll get the job done a lot quicker.
The developers claim the program features more than 500 buttons, 100 submenu designs, 50 ready-made samples. This is certainly more than enough to create a really cool looking website menu or desktop buttons although some of the designs are a bit dull.
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My first article described themed owner and full-custom Vista-styled push/menu/image buttons. This article describes a set of Vista-style task buttons -- or command link buttons -- plus a task dialog base class. In Vista, the task buttons provide fading transitions and subtle glowing effects.
Task buttons have a few differences from normal image buttons. First, when unselected they appear flat with no visible border. Second, as seen below, the first line is drawn extra large to really stand out. Lastly, the hot/default/normal borders used by task buttons differ significantly.
These task button classes are compatible with Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista. They are implemented as C++/MFC controls. The theme-aware visual effects are derived from standard push buttons and can thus leverage themed aspects on XP.
Personally, once something starts requiring callbacks I'll shunt the code into its own class. Once that happens, it becomes a toss-up: new class for a wrapper or new class for a custom dialog. A custom dialog gives better layout control if you dislike TaskDialogIndirect results and it avoids the backwards compatibility problem. Some elements are harder with custom task dialogs, though, such as the two-tone background, large font and the task buttons themselves. But not anymore!
Like my previous button classes, in Vista these custom task buttons provide smooth transitions between states. The theme-API supports five states for buttons: disabled, normal, hot, defaulted and pushed. Vista performs transitions between these states at varying speeds: some quickly and some slower. On state changes, a timer tickcount is initialized. This is used to compute an alpha blending factor for merging images of the old and new states over time. For a more complete description with example code, see my first article.
Vista offers two primary flavors of task dialogs. Basic versions ironically don't use task buttons or command links while more complex versions can. Common aspects are the two-tone background, images and the large headline fonts. Here is a basic task dialog:
CTaskDialogVE supports these natively, without any extra code. The class supports a shadowed transparent image (bitmap or icon), large headline text, content text and one or more standard buttons. Basic task dialogs are created dynamically; no dialog resource is required. They resize as necessary to accommodate varying amounts of text. The above example was created with this snippet:
First, the separator is configured with SetHorzLine, allowing the two-tone background. Next, we specify the font size for the dialog header text. The scales shown approximate Vista and also look good on Win98/2k/XP. Lastly, normal and hot images are added to both buttons. All the controls were sub-classed to make set-up easier. The rest is up to you. Add event handlers to respond to the buttons. The demo has a checkbox, so it adds a handler there also.
I complained back in 2001 about the rough edges on large form buttons in Internet Explorer. After installing Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, this was one of the first things I tested. I was dismayed to discover that the problem still persists.
Running the attached installer will add a custom palette of buttons to your controls palette. This palette includes small Windows Vista System icons. After installing them to your computer, you will be able to use these icons in the front panel of any program you develop within LabVIEW.
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