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256 color tray icons help
« on: June 28, 2006, 05:04:30 PM »
High :), I run win2k ,and I installed the hack for 256 color tray icons(like windowsXP), all of the tray icons are now displaying in 256color, but the Avast Home edition tray icons are still in 16 color mode...Any ideas?
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Re: 256 color icons?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2006, 05:12:23 PM »
Heres what I mean, click it for a bigger view
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2006, 05:47:03 PM »
Right click the 'a' blue icon, choose Program Settings.
Click on 'Appearance' tab.
Check 'Use translucent effects...'
Boot.

Will it help?
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2006, 08:01:49 PM »
no dice :(
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2006, 08:48:44 PM »
Quote from: Lead Head on June 28, 2006, 05:04:30 PM
I installed the hack for 256 color tray icons (like windowsXP)
For some reason, the hack is not working here with avast...
I hope someone who understand better about graphics could post an opinion or solution (Sasha? Where are you? How about your son?  ;)).
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2006, 09:20:45 PM »
Quote from: Tech on June 28, 2006, 08:48:44 PM
Quote from: Lead Head on June 28, 2006, 05:04:30 PM
I installed the hack for 256 color tray icons (like windowsXP)
For some reason, the hack is not working here with avast...
I hope someone who understand better about graphics could post an opinion or solution (Sasha? Where are you? How about your son?  ;)).

Well, really the "hacK' just changes a few lines in explorer.exe to enable 256 color tray icon support, winME and XP have this "hack" enabled by default
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2006, 11:16:35 PM »
Well, we're detecting if we're running under XP+, and if so, using a different set of tray icons (256 color instead of 16 color). So that's why it doesn't work...
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2006, 07:36:03 PM »
Quote from: Vlk on June 28, 2006, 11:16:35 PM
Well, we're detecting if we're running under XP+, and if so, using a different set of tray icons (256 color instead of 16 color). So that's why it doesn't work...

Is there any way i can make it think its under XP? or to force 256 color icons?
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2006, 04:33:36 AM »
*bumpity bump bump*
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2006, 11:31:23 AM »
Sorry, I have no idea how the patch works. Avast isn't doing anything special - it just loads the icons from the resources and uses the shell API to place it to the tray.

Maybe the patch only works for system icons (?)
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Re: 256 color tray icons help
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2006, 07:43:44 PM »
Quote from: Vlk on June 30, 2006, 11:31:23 AM
Sorry, I have no idea how the patch works. Avast isn't doing anything special - it just loads the icons from the resources and uses the shell API to place it to the tray.

Maybe the patch only works for system icons (?)

nope, the AIM, GAIM,xFire, BOINC, FDM tray icons all switched out of  16 colors to 256 colors
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