Fade in on Mouseover

I was wondering if this were possible? What I want to attempt is have a config or a group of configs that would fade in on mouseover and fade out after a specified period of time... Any thoughts would be appreciated!!

I'd like this feature as well Tews man. I posted a Plugin Request some time ago about the same subject.

Hmmm, I know we can do something similar with an image with some plugins but I can't think of a way with the entire config Sounds like a job for Adam or a new plugin for uziq

Invisible meter executing a command, in that case running a *.vbs by mouseover:

This will start one or more instances as you like and after a pause of here as example 60 seconds the instances close again. Fading is set in the Config itself for startup and close.

Disadvantage: the script will run as long it is paused. But you can also put a countup in one of the started Configs and use it as a alert for executing a *.vbs closing the configs again. Therefore you'll need two *.vbs:

1. Starting the Instances by mouseover of the invisible meter:

2. Executing a command if a specific time of the countup is reached (alert):

Clever flambee.

Although it's not possible to dim/blur configs with that (as I've requested) but works nicely if you want to completely fade in/out configs.

Now I understand. The configs should fade/dimm while running. So mine is more like a workaround.

I spent alittle while trying to do the fade in/out and I could never get it to work because of how samurize works. Its not a straight forward thing to do like you would expect.

Could you not just have a global alpha blend setting that is the "faded" setting and on mouse over ramp up to each meter's alpha blend setting?

The configs can fade in on startup, why not use this same feature on mouse over?

Thats what I tried or something along those lines.......

and it did not work. Samurize just aint built to do some of this stuff. A complete re-write is in order to get things like this working correctly.

You could avoid a rewrite... and just add a feature in the next update.
I could be talking out of my a$$ though because I have no idea of the inner workings of Samurize or programming for that matter;)

I know its sometimes easier said then done... especially with programming.
What sounds like a simple program could take you 2 days to write;)
Thats too bad... because the "change mouse cursor over linkable meters" option works;) if it could only be tied into a mouse over fade event.

Maybe in the next update, or create a patch that, you could enable/load an optional fading script.
This could be great, not only could people have custom fades, to add an aditional "feel" or style to ones config.

Adam already stated that this isn't possible.

I am wondering though, that it isn't possible to access every Meter and reduce its Alpha Value from the set one to Zero and Increase it back to the set one on an Mouse over.


But, then again, Samurize is totaly centered upon Meter Control, and not on Configs.
It's to much Micro and to less Macro, if you get the point.

Your right... he did.

Just hoping to spark some outside the box thinking instead of just accepting fate.

Like you just did. Maybe you got something there.
Mister Crabby

I think its possible to do (anything is possible.... right) but would be very cpu intensive. At the moment for all fading stuff we have to refresh the whole config. I do not believe there is a simple way around that complete refreshing without changing how samurize updates. Which means alot of changes and would actually be better to start writing from scratch.

I did wanted to ask if there is a chance to open up the Sourcecode to the GNU Licence, but I realized that it's totaly dump to ask because you are working with it since 4 Years already, and noone wants to see his Baby being abused by retards, no?

Its not just my code there has been 6 developers on Samurize. So we would need there permissions to open up the source code. The question has been raised before and discussion with the crew has always decided to keep it closed source.

It probably needs to be reviewed again.