Theming OS X?

[bumblebritches5]

I'm on OS X 10.8.2, on a Retina MAcbook, and I want to know where the drop shadows are mostly. Does anyone know? :c

[BRLawyer]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

I'm on OS X 10.8.2, on a Retina MAcbook, and I want to know where the drop shadows are mostly. Does anyone know? :c

Where the drop shadows are mostly what?

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by BRLawyer

Where the drop shadows are mostly what?

Mostly, as in that's my main question, I was just leaving room for for edits incase I thought of any more questions, but that's a terrible idea anyway, ignore it.

which file ArtFile.bin, ArtFile200.bin, or SArtFile.bin and which image file when extracted.

[goMac]

It's possible the drop shadows are rendered on the fly and aren't part of any graphic.

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by goMac

It's possible the drop shadows are rendered on the fly and aren't part of any graphic.

God I hope not. :/

If that is the case, do you know of any command to disable them?

[Drew017]

Originally Posted by goMac

It's possible the drop shadows are rendered on the fly and aren't part of any graphic.

I'm pretty sure that this is the case, because I remember way back (like before OS X Tiger I think) there was a hack that disabled window drop shadows, because it used CPU power. Its almost a silly thought now

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

God I hope not. :/

If that is the case, do you know of any command to disable them?

Can't remember what that hack was... though if I can it will probably end up being PPC only. You may be able to google it though...

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That being said, if you look in the dock.app there is drop shadow for icons etc, so its also possible that there is an image...

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by Drew017

I'm pretty sure that this is the case, because I remember way back (like before OS X Tiger I think) there was a hack that disabled window drop shadows, because it used CPU power. Its almost a silly thought now



Can't remember what that hack was... though if I can it will probably end up being PPC only. You may be able to google it though...

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That being said, if you look in the dock.app there is drop shadow for icons etc, so its also possible that there is an image...

Yeah, I saw that app when I googled a minute ago, it's for like OS X 10.2 :O

umm, the way that page was written, made it sound like Apple is applying the drop shadows inside the GPU using some code some the **** place, and that it's basically impossible to actually remove that. I'll probably end up getting annoyed enough to search around for text files that contain that stuff, I assume that code is a lot like Microsoft's WPF stuff in Aero. And I've forgotten what they call it, but it's basically CSS with different formatting.

[Drew017]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

Yeah, I saw that app when I googled a minute ago, it's for like OS X 10.2 :O

umm, the way that page was written, made it sound like Apple is applying the drop shadows inside the GPU using some code some the **** place, and that it's basically impossible to actually remove that. I'll probably end up getting annoyed enough to search around for text files that contain that stuff, I assume that code is a lot like Microsoft's WPF stuff in Aero. And I've forgotten what they call it, but it's basically CSS with different formatting.

Yeah thats what I thought

And why do you want to get rid of the drop shadow? just curious

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by Drew017

Yeah thats what I thought

And why do you want to get rid of the drop shadow? just curious

Becuase, the way I have my Macbook setup, I have my TV hooked up to it and I play movies on that, and the drop shadow spills over onto my TV and it annoys me, IMO, that is ****** ass coding. :c lol

[Drew017]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

Becuase, the way I have my Macbook setup, I have my TV hooked up to it and I play movies on that, and the drop shadow spills over onto my TV and it annoys me, IMO, that is ****** ass coding. :c lol

Oh I see... drop shadow from what exactly? Can you upload an image?

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by Drew017

Oh I see... drop shadow from what exactly? Can you upload an image?

From ANYTHING, like right now I have chrome open, and it's spilling over to my TV, I'll get on that 1 sec.

[gimg]http://i.imgur.com/5nz0v.jpg[/gimg]

K, here's the screenshot, but now I'm starting to think that maybe it's just my TV. :/

Apparently I have NO idea how to screenshot another display from my Macbook, you'd think Apple'd include the ability intuitively, considering that's their ENTIRE MARKETING CAMPAIGN.

NO. I KNOW it's not my TV, because I can move the shadow around when I move the window.

[simsaladimbamba]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

From ANYTHING, like right now I have chrome open, and it's spilling over to my TV, I'll get on that 1 sec.

[gimg]http://i.imgur.com/5nz0v.jpg[/gimg]

K, here's the screenshot, but now I'm starting to think that maybe it's just my TV. :/

looks like this in code:

[timg]http://i.imgur.com/5nz0v.jpg[/timg]

The g in front of the IMG is not necessary, if the image is wider than 800 pixel, TIMG is needed thoug

Anyway, as I wanted to say, you can circumvent that by resizing the Chrome window (or any other application) on the right side and have a bit of breathing room.

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by simsaladimbamba

looks like this in code:

[timg]http://i.imgur.com/5nz0v.jpg[/timg]

The g in front of the IMG is not necessary, if the image is wider than 800 pixel, TIMG is needed thoug

Anyway, as I wanted to say, you can circumvent that by resizing the Chrome window (or any other application) on the right side and have a bit of breathing room.

OH sorry I forgot the letter before img to have it resize lol, Yeah, but when you have 10 apps open...

[simsaladimbamba]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

Apparently I have NO idea how to screenshot another display from my Macbook, you'd think Apple'd include the ability intuitively, considering that's their ENTIRE MARKETING CAMPAIGN.

Press CMD+SHIFT+3 to make a screenshot, and Mac OS X (at least Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as I just tested it with two 1920 x 1200 displays) creates two PNGs saved on your Desktop, one PNG having the content from display 1 and the other PNG having the content from display 2.

Unless you mean something else?

To learn more about Mac OS X: Helpful Information for Any Mac User by GGJstudios

[bumblebritches5]

Originally Posted by simsaladimbamba

Press CMD+SHIFT+3 to make a screenshot, and Mac OS X (at least Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as I just tested it with two 1920 x 1200 displays) creates two PNGs saved on your Desktop, one PNG having the content from display 1 and the other PNG having the content from display 2.

Unless you mean something else?

To learn more about Mac OS X: Helpful Information for Any Mac User by GGJstudios

On Mountain Lion it only takes a screenshot of the main screen. :/

[Sound214]

ShadowKiller will do what you're looking for. Works on 10.8.3, just tested myself. Makes OS X look terrible, though.

Link: http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller

[Drew017]

Originally Posted by bumblebritches5

From ANYTHING, like right now I have chrome open, and it's spilling over to my TV, I'll get on that 1 sec.



K, here's the screenshot, but now I'm starting to think that maybe it's just my TV. :/

Apparently I have NO idea how to screenshot another display from my Macbook, you'd think Apple'd include the ability intuitively, considering that's their ENTIRE MARKETING CAMPAIGN.

NO. I KNOW it's not my TV, because I can move the shadow around when I move the window.

Just resize the window to the whole screen and hide the dock, or even click the full screen button. is this an image of your desktop on your MacBook or is this of your TV?

[Ritsuka]

Can't you just set the video player windows to remain on top?

[bumblebritches5]

That is a screenshot of my Macbook, I'm gonna try taking a screenshot of my TV again one second.

Okay, here we go, and recall that the texture on the left is VLC's media list, and the right is Chrome, VLC is on the TV, Chrome on my Macbook. See the drop shadow spilling over onto VLC from Chrome?

[iThinkergoiMac]

Alternatively, you could use Afloat to keep your VLC window permanently on top, which means all drop shadows should fall under it.

[bumblebritches5]

No the pint is that it's Chrome's shadow, so to not have that stupid ass drop shadow that's wayyy too big btw, I'd have to close chrome, or Apple could just fix it, but that'd be too easy.