In Vista, the balloon popups look like the ones from XP.

However, at some point in the longhorn beta’s, they actually looked like this:

If you want to recreate that effect for vista, use a small application GlassToast created by “Andreas Verhoeven”.
First Version

What’s working?
+ intercept notification balloons and replace them with a glass toast (longhorn 4xxx style)
+ notifications give the same response as real balloons (eg. “click here balloons” initiates the same action with glass toasts)
+ made stuff a bit prettier.
What’s stupid?
+ all offset values are hardcoded. All others are derived from bitmap sizes.
+ stupid DWM blurring: mask.bmp is used for masking out the blur on parts that should be 100% transparent; white = invisible; black=visible in the mask.bmp
+ occasionally some problems (seems not all applications use the correct flags)
















ashishbk said:
This one’s amazing VG.. Looking forward to try it on my pc
VG said:
^^ Thanks. ts really great.
abh said:
VG,it doesnt run in my pc………only error msg appears……suggest something!
mhr said:
be careful while using it , it deals with explorer.exe any problems while running can cause your computer to be down
ashishbk said:
Its working fine bro..
abh said:
VG,my problem( Glassy notification doesn’t appear) is still there,what precaution i can take??
VB_f-GR said:
Very coool !!!
Thanks VG & Ave
It’s an amazing app with R.O.O.B.E. !!!!