Random amusement
Or just things that escape my comprehension:
Yay "Start to Shut Down" mentality. :) Actually, Raymond Chen's blog has very interesting answers to many, many questions of this nature:
- Why doesn't the side-docked taskbar rotate its text?
- What's with the blank disappearing taskbar buttons?
- Why hasn't the timezone map been highlighted since Win95a?
"People will pay for what they want,
but not for what they need."
— Bill Watterson
The ad to the right came up on Google this morning. It almost speaks for itself. :)
Meanwhile...
I was playing around the other day, and managed to get a test program to do partial transparency in win98. I say "partial" because nothing underneath (Winamp, etc) updates! Argh@! I even tried using WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, but quite frankly it seems to be broken—yup, repaints go through my window, but they wind up on top of it and I don't get a chance to redraw...
Note that dragging the window basically works, and the even cooler part is (with slightly more effort) you could do blurring/refraction effects, if you wanted, not just transparency! The only remaining problems are a few glitches (my own controls drawing UNDER me? WTF?) and the damn redraws, and I'm not sure if I'll tackle it because it requires hacking the painting/graphics subsystem—for a single app! Whoops! I'm sure that could be shared into a DLL, though, so maybe someday, sigh. (Yay madCodeHook. It's fun stuff!)
Aaaanyway, enough toying with LJ. I'm off to find something else to do before someone IMs me and ruins my chance, hehehee. : )