Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

visnu writes: "I've been waiting for this for 2 years now -- a REAL glass-like windowing system. And yes, it's Microsoft to do it. Ever since W2k came out, and they included alpha-blending in the GDI, I was tempted to write a little tool to turn on any window's transparency, but of course I'm way too lazy to do that. These guys weren't though: glass2k runs in the systray and handles turning on any window's transparency. yes, here's a screenshot. I'm not too sure about the speed in W2k, but in XP w/ the newest Nvidia drivers and a somewhat recent video card, it's hardware accelerated, and yes, you should be drooling." Update: 11/26 19:00 GMT by T : Links updated, so hopefully you'll be able to actually get to the content again :)

Comments

WooHoo

[Perdo]

Excite personals classifieds adult slide show running under a transparent slashdot... Life is so good!

News?

[mary_will_grow]

Something as big as the boy-scouts deciding to ban homosexuals gets submitted and ignored, while some hokey looking window manager feature gets its story put up?

Thats pretty pathetic.

I'm drooling

[epine]

Drooling? The kind of drooling you do when someone hits you on the head with a basebat and you can't see straight and everything seems smudged together.

Re:you vs. the UI professionals of the world

[khuber]

Arg! Sorry, should have used preview...

-Kevin

Re:Because they can???

[MartinB]

Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (slightly mangled - the inference in the original is 'genetic engineers'). In the film, this was a Jeff Goldblum line. And from recent ad campaigns, he's a man who knows his alpha-channeled OS.