Win2000 menu fade - U2?

[claw]

I've just loaded up Win2000 and the 5.03 drivers for my G400. At 16 bit color, application menus fade in and out when I activate them. This doesn't happen at lower color depth. It's sort of a nice effect, actually, but I wanted to know if it's intentional.

Note that I'm not talking about the length of time it takes the menu to appear; what I'm talking about is more of a gradual fade in and fade out as the menu is activated and deactivated.

[Damien Green]

Yep - it's one of the nice new features in Win 2K - only works in the higher colour depths though.

[claw]

So you're sure this is a feature and not a bug? I was worried that it meant my monitor was on the way out.

Thanks.

[CannyOne]

Well, the Menu Fade part isn't a bug! But the OS might just constitute a "Large Virus" we've been scammed into intentionally installing!! Somehow Homer Simpson got in there and is reading my mail as it comes in!

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[claw]

Yeah, I've been wondering if Win9x was a supersized virus, sure enough. Win2000 seems a little more stable.

Try BeOS.

[Chucky Cheese]

hey!

check it out...access the display properties and check out the "effects" tab, this will allow you adjust/change that "bug"

chucky

[PaulS]

The other cool effect supported by W2k is transparent dragged windows. Looks like Matrox intends to enable it in PD 6.

Paul

[Elyas]

Wow, it's really neat to see all this technical innovation by Microsoft. Gosh, this stuff was only in linux a year ago (maybe sooner, although that was the first time I saw it.) If Microsoft gets broken up, just think what sort of things they wouldn't be able to copy, I mean think of

[Scytale]

If you want transparancy on Win2K try WindowFX from Stardock. It does al sorts of things like transparant and fading windows and menus, fading drop shadows and funky stuff like that. It's still in beta, but it's developed on Matrox video cards so it runs pretty well for us...

And while you're at it you might give WindowBlinds a try if you haven't done so already. Damn, this gets close to a shameless Stardock plug, doesn't it? I'm outta here

[Pertti]

Ok, nothing new on the OS market, MicroS**t has just released yet another useless screen saver (=W2KP)

It will take some heavy duty stripping and tweaking to make it in to something productive

Pertti

[Randy Simons]

Okok, so you wanna play with win2k's transparancy? Download dreamkeys and then the AlphaBlender plugin. (which is not available from the homepage as of yet)

Now you can make any window transparant.

Btw, this works in 16-bit colour equally well as on 24 or 32 bit on my G200...
Too bad it's all done in software (slow!).. MS: we DO have hardware for accellerated alphablending in our G200/G400. Use it!

[This message has been edited by Randy Simons (edited 12 May 2000).]

[C=64]

If I recall correctly, W2k is pretty much depending on the DirectDraw implementation to do all the work.

Problem is, DirectDraw does not support alpha blending! If a developer wants to use alpha blending, he actually has to use Direct3D, and shoehorn it into doing it in 2D.

Brilliant, eh?

C=64

[Randy Simons]

In reply to a message posted in may :

I've had a G400 in my rig for some weeks, and I noticed that with the G400 blended windows are actually handled in hardware. But not on the G200... Is there a difference in the hardware, or is it a software problem?