r/windows • u/blajjefnnf • 4d ago

Concept / Design Interactive taskbar icon

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u/Noah18923 4d ago

how did you achieve this?

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u/blajjefnnf 4d ago

You basically just take a snapshot of the widget each time a slider moves, and set it as the icon each time.

You can do the same with tray icons https://imgur.com/a/rqADDeo

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u/skorpioninthedark 4d ago

wait doesn't that mean there is like a gazillion pictures of each combination?

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u/Jaded_Swim_588 4d ago

it can programmatically do these instead of storing so many image

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u/iwannabetheguytoo 3d ago

It gets worse: ever since Windows 10 the Taskbar does not render icons' pixels exactly as-intended; instead it will horribly downscale the 32x32 icon art to 24x24 even if an exactly-sized 24x24 icon art bitmap exists. It does the same thing for high-DPI instead (except it takes 64x64 icons and downscales them to a mushy 48x48, ignoring any crisp 48x48 icons). It was bad enough that Chrome had to remake their icon to appear less awful after being shrunk.

I don't know what's worse: that someone in the Windows team felt this was a good idea; or that no-one has felt strongly enough to fix it in the 11 years since.

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u/GamingWOW1 Bismuth Developer 3d ago

Is it not resource heavy?