I've tried out quite a lot of styles and experimented with my own over the past few weeks, but one overall issue I've experienced is with windows wanting attention and how Curtains handles that situation on the taskbar buttons.
As everyone knows, sans-Curtains, when a window wants your attention it will start blinking orange on the taskbar button and depending on how the software called the API (FlashWindow/FlashWindowEx) and your registry settings (default is 7), it will stop blinking after so many blinks and be a solid colour.
In Curtains you get the opportunity to change that taskbar button image, but it doesn't blink or flash in any way, instead, it switches to the other customized button. I keep sounds off in messaging applications so I can focus on work, the blinking effect is the only way applications have to gain my attention, otherwise I don't know if I have a message. I have found I do not notice a simple colour change on the taskbar, and in a lot of styles, the colour change isn't very noticeable either.
Of course, you can already customize and remove the custom taskbar button to get the default Windows UI. But if it's at all possible in some way, I'd like to see some method of being able to blink or otherwise gain attention to the windows of these customized taskbar buttons.
Has anyone else experienced this?
It seems to work for me: the 5th taskbar button frame should be the "flashing" image. It will cycle between that image and the regular one to perform the flashing, and after a few cycles it will end with the "flashing" image in place on the taskbar. Here's an example using the Midnight style:
Thanks for checking and posting the example for me. Unfortunately, I'm still at a loss, I can't duplicate this at all.
To make sure i was doing a proper test, I installed a brand new version of Win10 x64 2004 in VMWare, ran WU, then set the taskbar to small icon mode and never combine buttons like you have, then installed Curtains, then switched to the Midnight style, then copied over nircmd.exe, issued the same parameters, and this is what happens to me:
Could there be some other setting you might have changed or other utility? Afterwards, I tried modifying the Midnight style, editing frame 5, and it shows up as expected, but there's still no flashing.
Are either of you running anything to customize the taskbar or a start menu app like Start10?
I'm running a whole bunch of tools; 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, Open Shell Menu, T-Clock Redux, plus a lot of registry tweaks from WinAero Tweaker and other places. I don't think I've ever seen the taskbar icon not blink in sync with the window titlebar when something calls FlashWindow, though.
On the physical install, the only thing I'm running now is Curtains, but this install isn't new, I've done tweaks in the past and TranslucentTB, and even Start10 installed before, but not presently.
On the VM I tested on, which is what was used in the gif I uploaded above, it is a brand new install for this testing purpose, there have been no other installations, no other utilities and no tweaks done. Although I've installed WB on it since to see if the problem occurred there too, and it did.
Does the flashing work for you Neil?
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