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  1. hockninc's Theme Atlas png has glow on the buttons when you hover them

    Have you tried it?

    Truly remarkable :yes:

    post-378641-0-74825500-1423277521.jpg

     

    I imagine DP means a glow "around" the button being hovered-over (see post 76, above).

     

    With the stock theme the theme atlas doesn't have anything that gets composited around a button being hovered-over.

     

    -Noel

     

  2. Sure this has probably been asked before, but other that using a 3rd party visual style theme is there anyway to add "glow" on the buttons of a Theme Atlas png file?

    ~DP

    What do you mean "glow" on the buttons of a Theme Atlas png file?

    Cause hockninc's Theme Atlas png has glow on the buttons.

    If you make your heading type white, you can see sort of a light glow background.

    Of course, this doesn't include windows exploer headings.

    That's when you would need 3rd party visual style theme.

    Maybe I'm missing something.

  3. Just a small experiment

     

    I updated 64-bit build which now contains new registry DWORD settings called FrameMargin (under DWM key) which influences the left, right and bottom margin of the frame (the top margin is not influenced!). The value is in pixels, default is zero.

     

    Hint: Default Win10 texture for left and right border is 3px wide and all of these pixels are dark. The rightmost pixels for left border (or leftmost pixels are right border) are stretchable when changing border width.  If you increase margin with the new setting, the left and right border will be completely dark for this reason. If you want the left and right border to match the rest of the frame, you need to use your custom atlas file with modified textures for these parts.

     

    It is not sure if this feature works completely for all frame or it does not cause some problems, thus only 64-bit build is available for testing.

    Oh, and ignore the frame on "modern" applications - it looks a bit off with increased margins.

    I like the new affect.

    I left the setting at 0 and used Noel's ThemeAtlas from here:

    http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173407-theme-resources-in-win-10-build-9926/?p=1093593

    I actually like the frame on the modern apps.

  4. So, since I had the symbols I wanted to try Aero Glass 1.3.1 with build 9926.

    A word of warning, don't even try, it froze up.

    I was able to recover by signing out and holding the ctrl key and log back in.

    I know BM warned about doing this but I'm hard headed. :crazy:

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    If I right click to run in AeroGlass while in Task Secedular it says it's running

     

     

    I noticed the status is no longer reliably updated in the Task Scheduler Libraries window.  You need to hit F5, at which point you'll see it's gone back to Ready status.

     

    Yet another thing Microsoft has messed up lately.

     

    -Noel

     

    Thanks, Noel.

    There's a new download which seems to work fine now.

  6. No stress, it is my mistake in PHP script which corrupts the file during the download. I'm fixing it as soon as possible :)

     

    EDIT: it should be ok now.. just redownload.

    I redownloaded and it's working fine now in Win8.1 Update 1.

    It now shows your watermark and I have the correct donation.key.

    I will try it in Win10 TP when I have more time.

    Thanks

     

    Edit:

    I finally installed in Win10 (x64) TP Build 9879 and all seems well.

    The only difference was I had to use my own CustomThemeReflection.png

    in order to get the reflection (stripes).

    I didn't need to do that in Win8.1.

    Thanks again for all your great work.

  7. NoelC, Dreamweaver01: do you test it on Win8.1 or Win10? Does aerohost.exe keep running or does it close immediately after startup? Could you try executing aerohost.exe just outside of Task Scheduler to see whether it displays "You need system account blah blah" message or it stucks earlier...

     

    btw public release will be delayed - one week for each one My1's useless post.

    I just tested in Win10 TP (x64) Build 9879.

    It says it's ready in Task Secedular but never shows up in Task Manager.

    If I right click to run in AeroGlass while in Task Secedular it says it's running

    but still not showing up in Task Manager.

    Your old version for 9860 works fine.

  8.  

    NoelC: I needed to finish some stuff. Now new build uploaded.

     

    Unfortunately, the x64 build doesn't seem to work on the same VM the last one was running fine on.  Aero Glass runs to completion at startup (it normally keeps running, of course).  No DWM.exe window comes up at all, and nothing is written to the debug.log.

     

    No errors are logged in the Windows error logs.

     

    To install it I just replaced the 4 files on my test system on which the prior version had been working fine.

     

    When I restore the 4 files from the prior 1.2.6 preview that you built in October Aero Glass starts okay again.

     

    I'm not sure whether mixing and matching components is reasonable at all, but I tried replacing just DWMGlass.dll from today's build, without changing anything else, and got the same symptom.  No DWM startup and nothing written to the debug.log.

     

    Sorry I don't have better news for you.  Let me know what other info I can provide.

     

    -Noel

     

    Yes, I see the same thing.

    Only my install was on my hard drive.

    The AeroGlas for Build 9860 also works fine for me too.

  9. Conventional patchers also break system protection as well, rendering them unacceptable to people who would like to keep their systems sane and sound for the long term. 

     

    Big Muscle's approach where the software works at run-time and even tries to automatic follow Microsoft's updates (thinking of how Aero Glass works with the symbol servers) is the only one that's even remotely acceptable.

     

    -Noel

    Yes, that's correct, but nothing's perfect.

    With BigMuscle's method, you have to turn off secure boot which could also be harmful.

    But it's still a better option than a patcher, imo.

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