Would it be possible to make my taskbar change colors over time?

[Reactors]

Well, I was kind of just curious, would it be possible for my task bar to lets say, blend from different colors? I'm on Windows 7, and I know something like this would have to be scripted. I tried to Google it, couldn't really come up with anything. I just kind of want it so that it will go through a 30-60 second cycle of going from black to white, then white to black, and repeating.

[DOG-GY]

With aero you could up the transparency and make a background transition that has a black or white bar across the bottom that fits the size of your superbar.

Workarounds

[Ca5bah]

No.

[robmaister12]

You can set it in any .NET programming language. I would write a background application in C# for this if I weren't so busy lately. The only issue is that what WAS used in Vista to do something like this now returns an exception. There's definitely a function somewhere in Windows that has the same functionality, but you would have to search for it yourself.

What you would need to do to make it change over time is to create a program that runs in the tray, and have a timer running from startup. At a certain interval, you would increase or decrease the value of the current Aero color slightly and set it as the new aero color.

[DOG-GY]

[img]http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Sombody123/DOG-GY/animated-superbar.gif[/img]

[Reactors]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;23323056]With aero you could up the transparency and make a background transition that has a black or white bar across the bottom that fits the size of your superbar.

Workarounds[/QUOTE]

Oh wow, that's a nice idea. Thanks. ^^

[liquid_phase]

Actually it should be pretty easy to script this with something like the windows powershell, there is a registry key here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > DWM

Called 'ColorizationColor', it's argb (alpha, red, green, blue) in hex. So all you need to do is have your script change that and have the dwm service restart to pick it up. All trivial things to change via powershell.

More info here: [url]http://www.tweakvista.com/articles/39028/change_color_of_glass_with_regedit_with_decimal_to_hex_argb_converter/[/url]

[editline]01:48PM[/editline]

And for the timing you'd create a scheduled task. Easy.

If I've got the time later I'll try it myself.

[Panda X]

Changing it in the registry only works when DWM is loaded. You can call it via code to change it (like the control panel does).