Control over transparent docked toolbars

Help & Support
1

I don't know if I just didn't get round to it in Opus 9, but the floating toolbar in Opus 10 is a wonder to behold.

There is just one small thing that may or may not be tweakable.

If you dock the toolbar at the edge of a screen and make it "Transparent", you can no longer "Right click" within the toolbar to change the settings.

Nor can you grab the toolbar and shuffle it around the screen. In effect, it is locked in place.

No big deal, you just go into Opus and configure it.

But you can tweak the toolbar through "Right click" so long as it isn't transparent.

Maybe it is something to do with how "Transparent" works. But if it were possible to allow that "Right click" control with "Transparent" that might help anyone who doesn't realise that they have to get back into Opus to turn off the "Transparent" setting.

2

Fully transparent parts of a window don't register as part of the window; clicking them will go through to whatever is underneath.

If you hold shift as you move the mouse across one of the buttons on a transparent toolbar, the whole toolbar will fade-in allowing you to right-click and drag it. (It will also display a chequerboard pattern while in Customize mode for the same reasons.)

3

Got it.

Even better, it was in the Help file that I did not bother to consult.

Oh well, perhaps mentioning it here will help someone else.

Time to go back to sleep to leave you to deal with important matters.

4

How do you have transparent dock toolbar ? Transparent option works for non dock but not when docked :frowning:

5

It works for docked. :slight_smile:

It won't go fully transparent while in customize mode.

6

Certainly does work when docked.

After finding the shift trick, I have managed to set things up to my satisfaction.

7

Not for me :frowning:
I have a floatting toolbar and choose "transparent" option. When i close "customize" it's ok.

Now i drag&drop this toolbar to the left, I have this...

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Now, i close "customize" but I have this...
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Note a little glitch in the border (red arrows)

8

For me it's (unfortunately) only working if the "Autohide"-Option is disabled.

9

Auto-hide toolbars can't be transparent.

Not sure why the border is going wrong there; seems fine with the same settings here, at least in WIndows 7.

10

Oh Auto-hide... of course :wink:

11

I also saw the "border glitch"when I created my Toolbar but can't remember what it was. I think it's related to the used Background Image. Maybe it helps to set it to "stretch".

12

I don't have "autohide". If I turn that on, it loses transparency, for reasons that Leo explains.

I also hide labels, keep on top and don't use rounded corners, although that is pointless in a transparent toolbar. Here's what it looks like here:

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I would show the toolbar, but I need something to screengrab just one of my monitors. I'm too lazy to edit the full caboodle.

13

Stretch doesn't fix glitch... So i disable "Rounded corners" option. But i've just test in DO9 and glitch doesn't exist for the same toolbar.

Another glitch when toolbar disappear and image set to background and borders display. I have black borders like this...

14

FWIW, the stuff being left behind after the toolbar's size changes (not the black border) is a bug in Windows. When non-rectangular window (like when toolbars have rounded corners) change shape, the OS does not always tell other windows that were underneath the old shape but visible with the new shape that they need to repaint. (If you drag some other window across them, they'll repaint after that.)

We try to work around it in some places (e.g. when the toolbar slides in and out it forces nearby windows to repaint) but there are still some situations where it happens.

FWIW the bug no longer happens on Vista/Win7 when using DWM, since repainting is no longer required due to desktop composition.