Can anyone here duplicate the scroll bars that iTunes uses? As you can see, with the latest TD 4.02 visual style, the scroll bars come pretty darn close. But not perfect. How does iTunes do it? And how can it be duplicated into a visual style?
I'm no developer, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed this and has asked for a "fix" ...
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There used to be a REALLY buggy finder clone (I think it was part of the aqua-apps, which I will not speak of here) that could do the animation. I dont know what it involves but on that version, it didnt work too well.
i dont think it can be done with a vs, osx and itunes,use some sort of masking thingy, wich cant be done with a vs 
if by buggy finderclone you mean toaster, it wasnt buggy, it jsut didnt do anyhting yet, and yes it can do that, it rather simple
WB cant i'm pretty sure,
its basically the aplication applies a transparent texture over the scrollbar that is masked so taht it is only applied to teh 3d blue shape. its rather simple from a software standpoint,. but not to implement into standard guis, thats why we are replacing the whoel shabang with toaster, and yes its gunna happen, we're just busy, and we need soemone to make skins :naughty: please
otherwise yeah, its not something you can do to the windows scrollbars yet
(check out the toaster demo here, though it hasnt been updated in aloooong while)
@Floatingtrem: it would be great if you could share the idea with kevin, so it could be implemented in the new version of nexplorer. 
i'm pretty sure nexplorer uses the standard windows gui controls, i dont think it is possible using these, if anyone knows different, then yeah, i'll talk to him, or should i.... 
I already am working on custom scroll bars that are more functional than windows default ones and also skinnable.
I have the complete coding idea written down but can't find time actually coding it cause I am quite busy these days.
Anyway the new version of NeXplorer will come with more realistic itune style scrollbars whenever the release will be.
well in that case, its pretty damn simple
you create a texture, we use PNGs for their transparency and size, that is the width of the scrollbar and however high you want it to be. then you tile the texture vertiacaly ontop of the entire scrolbar area. then you need a mask that represents the scrollbar itself, we were already using a mask in the creation of our scroll bars, so we didnt have to do extra work, but i dunno what you are doing. the mask is used to determine where the scrollbar is and what then should be diplayed where, basically a black and transparent PNG that shows where things are seen and where they arent. the scroll bar PNG is made up of a middle and 2 end cap elements. once you have that in place, you use it to determine where the texture is shown and where it isnt. Then when you are moving your scroll bar, you set the scroll bar images to move, but the texure to stay stationary, then as you move the bar up and down, the little black spots stay in place.
you'd have to talk to velde for details on the actaul coding of it
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