I see in wine-1.1.5's announcement that we now have partial support for "Layered Windows", http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997507.aspx Which apps use this?
Seems that it used to make screen captures hard, so one way to find them is to look for apps that say you have to turn on "Capture Alpha-Blending" on in UltraVNC to see them remotely. Candidates include: Visual Studio - tooltips Microsoft Office - Clippy Possibly photoshop cs3
Another way is to look for apps that recommend the Vista Layered Windows Performance hotfix or Vista SP1. Candidates include: Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista
Another way is to look for apps that make Wine output fixme:xrender:X11DRV_AlphaBlend Ignoring SourceConstantAlpha ... Candidates include: Miranda IM http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11902 MSN Messenger http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8555 Skype http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12334
I'm getting the feeling it's widespread. Anyone else know of examples of apps that Wine displays poorly because of the lack of this feature? - Dan
--- On Sat, 4/10/08, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote: <snipped>
I'm getting the feeling it's widespread. Anyone else know of examples of apps that Wine displays poorly because of the lack of this feature?
- Dan
I have a .NET2 application which has pull-down menu's that doesn't pull-down with native .NET2 but does with win32 mono. (and the pull-down menu does not work under mono even though it gets pulled-down). On the console, mono outputs something about layered windows. With native .net2, clicking on the top of the menu does nothing.
The menu-behavior of the application is somewhat curious - under mono all the menu's can be pulled-down but clicking on items mostly does nothing; under native .net2, *some* menu's can be pulled-down - those that don't have sub-menu's, I think.
Maybe somebody can write a quick .net apps to demostrate this....
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