Re:Win32 Window Custom Title Bar (Caption)
by Liquid_Fire on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:22AM
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Are you talking about the compositing? I haven't used Vista, but I definitely remember that in Windows 7 you couldn't use the glass theme unless hardware acceleration was working, because it relied on compositing on the GPU.
Windows XP supported partially transparent windows, but I'm not sure if this required hardware acceleration or there was also a software rendering fallback.
Re:Win32 Window Custom Title Bar (Caption)
by screamin_jesus on Thursday April 21, 2022 @09:49AM
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ah yes, the most perfect thing to ever exist: https://i.imgur.com/X5BzWQj.jpg
there's plenty of things I don't like in newer windows versions, but the introduction of compositing is not one of them
Defamation and blasphemy of the highest order. In XP the GUI was fully hardware accelerated and highly performant. Possibly the most perfect thing to have ever been created. In vista this was all torn out and replaced with software rendering that ran like treacle. All for a transparent window gimmick.