Weird.  My Win7 (32/64bit) theme and yours look different.  Notice, mine has
the little magnifying glass and the font size is different?  My chevrons
">>" are on the right side...yours on the left.   My guess is you have some
sort of hybrid .css action going on.

The good news is that the color black seems to still have a transparent
property with DQSD, so perhaps if you completely wipe out the theme and
re-apply mine, you might still make out ok.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kairys [mailto:kairys@comc...]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:31 PM
To: dqsd-users@list...
Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again

Yes Matt, I am using your theme.css (and grateful for it! :)

I first tried globally substituting transp.gif for 7toolbar1.bmp and got a
partial result, see attached. By further experimentation I determined:

1.  The reason the effect was partial is body did not have a background
specified; when I added it I got the whole thing 2.  Whether I used
7toolbar1.bmp or transp.gif didn't seem to make a difference 3.  The
relevant changes were to body and .txtfld, .clock, and moving those to
localsearch.css achieved the same effect.

I have never seen actual transparency...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Admin-VYSA [mailto:admin@vysa...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:19 PM
> To: kairys@comc...; 'DQSD users mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Bar color, again
>
> Are you not using the THEME.CSS (See attached), which develops the
> transparency of the bar?  I've not used localsearch.css for these
> color settings.
>
> If you don't already have it, try reinstalling my complete theme:
>
> http://www.vysa.net.dqsd.zip
>
> -Matt
>
> -----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.