WinLIFT for VISTA/SEVEN

[Patrice Terrier]

I have a WinLIFT/GDImage FF3 demo project that is able to work on VISTA/SEVEN in full transparent composited mode.

Let me know if interested.

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[Pat Dooley]

I would be interested. How do I get it?

[Patrice Terrier]

Pat

Attached to this post is the FF3 translation of the Zooming project that has been already posted in the WinLIFT dedicated forum. Except the size of the resulting EXE, they look and behave the same.

This project was done to explore the limit of what could be done with WinLIFT and the Desktop Window Manager, thus it must be used either on VISTA or SEVEN running in AERO mode.

While WinLIFT could use the standard AERO blur mode, the demo uses the exclusive WinLIFT/GDImage crystal mode that allows you to work in full composited mode without alteration of the background.
This means you could have a smooth animation playing in the background even when moving the window, and "cherry on the cake" this animation could be part of your own window. This means you could draw in full 2D mode hover a DirectX or OpenGL surface, giving you the possibility to create amazing multimedia applications that were, until now, reserved to those using Windows Presentation Foundation.

Most programmers would say: "that is just eye candy", however this is the future of the next programming decade, when transparent screen, like in the "AVATAR" movie, will become the new standard.

So far, skinned applications are very popular with the young generation, and programmers using DotNET or WinDev, and WinLIFT gives the same capabilities to PowerBASIC programmers wanting to compete with them.

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[Pat Dooley]

Wow! I'm new enough to Win 7 (totaly skipped Vista) that I've never seen that before.
I just noticed that on the forum (Jose's) that the latest version (4.73) is FF3 ready.
Cool!  Time to start saving my money.  The people I need to impress the most are very visualy oriented.  Too visual in my opinion, but that's the way it goes.
 

[Patrice Terrier]

Note: To enter my web-site you must use www.zapsolution.com and not any previous URL that haven't been updated. The old WinLIFT has been discontinued because it didn't work with VISTA and SEVEN.

Here is the link to the official WinLIFT page:
http://www.zapsolution.com/DW/US/winlift.html

Thank you to update your links.

[Patrice Terrier]

One of the purpose of the example i posted on this forum is to show you, how WinLIFT and GDImage can be used together inside of a skinned application. But they are two distinct products.

One is a SkinEngine that would apply a theme to an existing application, and the other is a graphic library with some theme facilities for those wanting to produce pure graphic application based on the GDImage API only.

However in case you need it, i plan to add gauge/knob support in WinLIFT on the model of the GDImage "Gauge2" project you can find on my web site in the "Geek corner" section.

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