A small (and dangerous) new years gift for the os4 community :)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5482530/bananabar.lha

;)

NB: Alpha-alpha-alpha! Only tested on X1000. Try it out, have a laugh (or moan) and send me your wishes! Happy New Year!

@alfkil

Happy new year alfkil


Crash on Xe :D

Crash on my Peg2 too, happy new year anyway!

Works on my X1000 and look very promising.
A lot much nicer than AmiDock.

Impatient to be able to launch program from it, add drawers...
Keep the good work, Alfkill.

And happy new year !

Very fine OSX like toolbar
On Sam460ex

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Come on, give us a screenshot or video

A system freeze here

Happy New Year!

Ditto my phone doesn't understand lha files.

@crashpeople

Yeah, I think I tested it once on my sam-flex and got the same crash. The problem seems to be, that there is a fatal flaw in the old Radeon driver that prevents CompositeTags from drawing to alpha8 bitmaps. Not much point in trying to circumvent that (ie. with software render), because that would defeat the whole idea (ie. make it unbearably slow). Only to hope, that those problems will be fixed at some point.

@mr2

I think someone else can quickly do a small video? I don't have my system set up for it.

@alfkil

So, its for RadeonHD? Anyway it sounds very nice. It'll bring more life to the old WB, I suppose

@mr2

Well, it is of course possible to do a buffed-down version, that doesn't do any alpha rendering or animation, but that leaves you with just a limited copy of AmiDock. Really, if the alpha rendering worked, the simple version (the most OSX-like) would be useful on lower end systems also. But sadly...

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ACube! Bring me some new, more powerfull HW!

Ah yes, it works only on my X1000-HD6670.
It freezes when used on my X1000-R9250.

Here is a screenshot of Banana when clicking on Clock icon

http://zzd10h.amiga-ng.org/Divers/Banana.jpg

@zzd10h

Thanks I wonder how it compares to maclikedock?

http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... workbench/maclikedock.lha

Just tested maclikedock.
Banana icons moves are more fluid, really like on MacOSX

@zzd10h

Thanks again, you are very helpful

@alfkil
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I'm surprised that rendering to alpha8 bitmaps worked at all. Compositing to an alpha bitmap doesn't really make sense, so I'm not sure that it's supposed to work.

EDIT: Your bananabar looks great though.

Hans

@Hans

Hmm, ok? Well, then how am I supposed to acheive those effects that I am after, without using an alpha8 bitmap for the cliprect?

@alfkil

Welcome back and happy 2014 !

Tested but for now it also freeze my Sam440, but from the grab it looks nice.
Looking forward for the fixed version

Got this from a happy user:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54 ... _Flex_Radeon_HD6670-2.wmv

There are many more features than just this (put a bar on every corner or every edgde, different animation effects, attach to mouse pointer, drag&drop of wb icons). I am hoping, that any insights from Hans could make it possible to run it on old Redeons as well.

@alfkil

i sow the video look like wonderful :)
hope it can be optimized for the old videocards and become the standard ... Amidoc is too heavy expecially on old "classic" and slow machine