pretty widgets

Experiments in web developent and design by Kevin Gerich

Metal Phoenix

Posted on | April 9, 2003 |

I made a one line code addition and built Phoenix with metal windows. Check here for a screenshot. The bad news is that the metal windows flicker like hell when the contents are updated or resized. Also some of the chrome elements tend to vanish and reappear. Pretty, but totally unusable.

Category: Firefox

Comments

6 Responses to “Metal Phoenix”

  1. Michel
    April 10th, 2003 @ 5:16 am

    Looks nice :) Is that still based on 0.5 or is it based on a CVS checkout - and if the latter, could we have a standard updated build?

    Thanks,

    Michel

  2. Kevin
    April 10th, 2003 @ 10:33 am

    Based on CVS. I won’t post a metallized build, but if you’re interested in building your own, you can follow the instructions on the Phoenix page and add the following line of code below line 559 of file mozilla/widget/src/mac/nsMacWindow.cpp:

    ::ChangeWindowAttributes ( mWindowPtr, kWindowMetalAttribute, kWindowNoAttributes );

  3. Metareye
    April 15th, 2003 @ 4:33 pm

    I hope this becomes an option in the future. I think it looks great.

  4. gg
    April 28th, 2003 @ 10:30 am

    Ulgh. Someone get the holy water, that needs an exorcism.

  5. Kevin
    April 28th, 2003 @ 1:56 pm

    I tend to agree about the metal interface, gg :)

  6. Steph
    November 6th, 2004 @ 11:31 pm

    Was just bored and thought I would post