Shadows on windows

Windows such as WMP [not that i'd touch that hunk'o'junk ] and msn messenger have an option to hide the xp window borders and replace them with their own.

Now programs such as styler can detect when this happens and correctly wraps the window in a shadow.

However, both y'z shadow and windowFX create a 'halo' that surrounds these windows and dont hug them properly. Is there anyway to make them do this?

I've noticed that styler seems to make the application run its own shadow, and runs it as a seperate application [part of the reason why it seems to be slow to respond with windowrollups and making menu's appear] while windowFX doesnt.

if you cant make the programs do this, can anyone name another program that can?

i'll try to dig out an old screenshot but i'm pretty sure you'd know what i mean if you could help, and since i no longer have windowFX i cant really go make one.

#371430

it seems the latest version of winfx solved this problem , should be version 3 beta. see the attach screenshot .but it seems still buggy

#373285

hmm thanks, but to get that i need od, which i dont really want. i hope that the shareware version won't have too many features cut out, i cant be bothered with getting enhanced again.

#375521

For Yz-shadow, change the "Offset to an inner side" option according to ur liking. Just play with the setting until the shadow "hugs" properly. I use "MacOSX on Intel" visual style, which is borderless, and a setting of 3 pixels is perfect. The max is 5.

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