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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: motorollin on June 29, 2007, 10:24:31 AM
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It is possible to fake transparency in Amidock by changing the background to the same as your Workbench backdrop. If you get it lined up just right it looks totally transparent. But is there any way to change the colour of the border around it? I know there is no option for this, but I'm wondering if it is possible to edit the Amidock binary in a hex editor to change the colour of this border, maybe by finding the value which specifies the colour and chaing it?
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moto
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I'm trying to figure this out too, anyone with tips?!?
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Well what do you think? :oops:
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/Amidock.jpg)
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send me your icons, Now! :-D
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amiga92570 wrote:
send me your icons, Now! :-D
I'd gladly do that for you mate ;-) The main icons are from Ken's Icons and the great 2GB Jaz drive icon was created from a photo by the A.Org member lurkist 8-)
I tried but didn't know how to make the background of Amidock transparent for Moto. If no-one can help then maybe he'll like the colour dark blue as an alternative, as this gives the illusion of it being transparent :-)
(Please go easy on me if you think it is hideous Moto :lol:)
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You could try a different dock program. Polynet looks very promising. I haven't tried it myself though!
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@A4000_Mad
You've still got a white border around that. That's what I want to remove.
@Flashlab
I did look in to PolyNetNG but the screenshots on the web site show a border round the dock.
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moto
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Yeah but it's supposed to be more configurable than AmiDock.
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@moto
Even if you did succeed in removing the border around the dock area, you'd still be left with that ugly bar to the left/on top.
My suggestion would be to leave the border be, but apply some subtle effects to the background of the icon area. This was something I was going to try on my system, but I haven't got around to it. If you want you could email me your backdrop and a screengrab and I could make you something that looks cool, but tasteful.
PM me if you're interested.
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motorollin wrote:
@A4000_Mad
You've still got a white border around that. That's what I want to remove.
Sorry for not fully understanding mate. I now get that you wanted Amidock to look like the very bottom of this screengrab........
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/Amidock2.jpg)
It amazes me how you can sometimes learn more from a question than an answer. I'd always thrown Amidock straight into a drawer called 'Disabled' because it was an ugly colour, used up memory and I had the great ToolsDaemon to launch programs anyway. But I've had a fun few hours messing with this Amidock.
Also while trying to help a guy in another thread with a hard drive booting problem, I found out that you could tell if an accelerator card had disabled the PCMCIA slot of an A1200 by CC0 not being present in the 'Boot Options....' list.
Sorry, I'm rambling :oops:
EDIT - I've just heard back from Stefan Robl the creater of Amidock (http://www.qdev.de/?location=amiga/amidock).
He says:-
"AmiDock for OS4 supports that kind of transparency. I have not continued the development of AmiDock for OS3.9 and I have no intention to do so; this has nothing to do with ignorance, just a massive lack of time."
Hmmm.... Me wonders if the Amidock of OS4 could be put into OS3.9. If only they had sold it to us classic users first, and then started a battle over who got the money we'd paid for it :bigcry:
Anyway, did you know that there was a hidden Easteregg in Amidock? You can check it out at the Amidock link above :-)