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10.5: One way to create an opaque menu bar
Authored by: vics43 on Nov 15, '07 10:33:07AM

I have read about the 'transparent' Menu Bar in Leopard, but I just installed Leopard on my 20" iMac G5 over the past week-end, and all I see is a WHITE Menu Bar, and no Option anywhere I can find to have it appear any other way. I thought maybe it's my video card, but I get the moving stars effect in Time Machine, and the rotating cube effect in Fast User Switching. Anyone got any ideas? I probably wouldn't like a TRANSPARENT Menu Bar, but possibly translucent would be OK. Thanks...



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Cupertino, stop your photocopiers!
Authored by: kkL on Nov 15, '07 11:11:58AM
Wow, you're lucky!

You really wouldn't like having pink menubar with odd spots and deformed font (OS X messes up anti-aliasing on semitransparent things).

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10.5: One way to create an opaque menu bar
Authored by: jaysoffian on Nov 15, '07 12:22:37PM
Mac OS X 10.5: Menu bar appears solid instead of translucent
Your Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard menu bar may appear solid in color, instead of translucent.

The translucent Leopard menu bar appears on most computers that are equipped with a graphics card which is compatible with Core Image.

Some graphics cards, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, may not have the necessary OpenGL capabilities to display a translucent menu bar even though they are compatible with Core Image. Those cards should render most effects, but not the translucent menu bar.



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10.5: One way to create an opaque menu bar
Authored by: jaysoffian on Nov 15, '07 12:24:18PM

Note to self -- find the code which detects whether or not the video card is capable of rendering a translucent menubar and neuter it with extreme prejudice. :-)



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