What's your AERO color intensity set at?  Mine is about 45%.  Also, do you
have "Enable Transparency" checked in your Window Color and Appearance
Control Panel (Personalization)?  Sometimes, this gets disabled in the
Performance Advanced settings.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kairys@comc...]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:27 PM
To: 'DQSD users mailing list'
Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again

> Refresh my memory.  Are you running Win7 32 bit?  Are you using AERO?

Yes, and yes.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Nix [mailto:nixjc@char...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:18 PM
> To: kairys@comc...; 'DQSD users mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> Michael,
>
> Refresh my memory.  Are you running Win7 32 bit?  Are you using AERO?
>
> Reason I ask is that I am test installing Win7 32bit (my first 32 bit
> install, all others have been 64 bit) on an OLD Toshiba laptop.  No
> Aero support.  First pass install of DQSD has color problems as well
> but I am still looking at it (may have the wrong installation kit for
> Win7 32 bit....).
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kairys@comc...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:10 PM
> To: 'DQSD users mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> Thanks so much for your reply; glad to know someone is listening :)
>
> Attached seems to be as close as I can get; I got it by setting body
> and .txtfld background to black as you suggested:
>
> /* localsearch.css ... */
>
> body
> {
>   background: #000000;
> }
>
> .txtfld, .clock
> {
>   background: #000000;
>   font : calibri;
>   font-size : 13;
>   font-weight : normal;
> }
>
> I saw no difference from using transp.gif instead of 7toolbar1.bmp, i.e.
>
> background: #000000 url(transp.gif) repeat-x fixed top;
>
> It's not transparent but at least it's not bright blue :)
>
>
> From: Admin-VYSA [mailto:admin@vysa...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:15 PM
> To: 'DQSD users mailing list'; kairys@comc...
> Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> I should have mentioned to use the previously attached file in place
> of 7toolbar1.bmp (just find/replace in the .css and change to
> transp.gif).  Be sure the transp.gif file exists in the DQSD folder
> next to the 7toolbar1.bmp.
>
> If that works, you may need to remove the black pixels in dqsd.png
> (little magnifying glass icon) and make them “transparent” (alpha
> channel) as well.
> If the transp.gif works, you may need to add a few colored pixels at
> the very top of the file to best match the embossed look at the top of
> the taskbar (as seen in the 7toolbar1.bmp).  I recommend you do all of
> this in Photoshop.
>
> I’ve not installed the latest IE9, so please reply with whether or not
> you got it to look better.  Thanks!
>
> -Matt
>
> From: Admin-VYSA [mailto:admin@vysa...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:50 PM
> To: kairys@comc...; 'DQSD users mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> Hi Mike:
>
> Did you try using this .GIF file I included in my Win7 x64 Theme which
> uses the Alpha Channel that IE9’s adoption of the RGBA color space
> uses?  Also, you might want to try all black (RGB: 0/0/0).
>
> From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kairys@comc...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:40 PM
> To: dqsd-users@list...
> Subject: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> Hello all,
>
> Rather quiet is this list… I hope someone is still reading it :)
>
> I’ve written a few times about my problems getting the search bar to
> sit transparently in my Windows 7 taskbar. I had it looking pretty
> good until I installed IE 9 beta, and now it’s a light blue for some
> reason. See attached.
>
> Please can anyone tell me how to control this. I would be happy to
> force it to the same color as my task bar if I could; I’ve tried
> putting colors in my localsearch.css for .txtfld, .clock background
> but the color I get seems not to be related to the color I put in, and
> it doesn’t cover the whole area anyway.
>
> Any advice appreciated.


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