i personnly find cleartype gorgeous on my lcd monitor

try to set it to a 100% opaque lime color, and you will see it pass when you minimize / restore frames.

I have problems editing those transparent pngs and i begin to suspect VSB and / or BcMapFixer to be the source of the problem. I really cant beleive that there are nobody else with that problem...

ive tried with photoshop cs3 and the Gimp, both gave me the same bogus result..

i try to edit lets say the explorer::treeview::glyph image.

i open in PS/GIMP, lock the alpha channel, then set all pixels with the rgb(192,255,0) value. looks good. Inspecting the pixels show me clearly that the color for every pixel (even the fully transparent ones) is correctly set to (192,255,0). Save, close the image.

I re-edit the image immediately after. Pixels that have the (128) alpha value now are rgb value of (81,128,0) !! The pixel color value has been cut by half. Fully transparent pixels color value show (0,0,0). wtf??

I tried using gimp to "save as" and tweak the png options: even with "save transparent pixel color" option on and no compression i have this bug. Then i tried to save on the desktop instead and reload; pixels were correct.

I want that explorer treeview glyph to be rgb(192,255,0) with an alpha of 128!!!

and beleive me ive searched for help elsewhere before asking here... weirdly there doesnt seems to be anybody out there that complains about something like that..

Please tell me ive done something wrong or that bcmapfixer.exe has a bug that will get fixed..

With the beta of win7 out and all, i really hope that you will get this app to be compatible to win7 when its officially out..

The changes from win vista to win7 concerning skinning doesnt seems really extensive(taskbar, maybe a few interfaces change..), so the porting shouldnt be really difficult..

One can use any Visual Studio / Eclipse / Delphi you name it to create verrry simple project to test controls...

Try Visual Studio Express or Eclipse, wich are both free and capable..

Ok thanks a lot that's ..  enlighting.

You made me discover the little help btn.


I though that all the items in the soft were identified and understood by Ave.. I know now that its much more cryptic. It's really a shame that MS make these specifications closed like that; all the code is there for the OS to support skinning from a-z... Hell the skin editor should come with the OS, at least with ultimate..

Hail Lord Ave's brilliant reverse engeneering!   

id like to know Win&Caption->aero->dwn win->frames->fading refer to what exactly.