TungstenMD Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Is this feature planned as with the OSD checkbox option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 It's not on our short-term roadmap. You can however cut out a part of the desktop wallpaper and put it into the SensorPanel background, which would effectively "emulate" a transparent effect. It's not a perfect solution, but many AIDA64 users went that way. Regards, Fiery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TungstenMD Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 I've seen that clever workaround yet I am one of the users who has a slideshow background. Just a thought. Please put it on your roadmap if you can. Great piece of software overall. I didn't know about the sensor panel when I bought a64, but i find it the feature I use most now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firehorse Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Hi, sorry, wrong info supplied Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidaknow Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Three years down the track from this OP, a transparent background on sensor panel would so useful. Please consider. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 On 2017. 10. 06. at 1:44 AM, Aidaknow said: Three years down the track from this OP, a transparent background on sensor panel would so useful. Please consider. Since there's a workaround for this issue (that I've mentioned above), we're not considering getting back to working on it. It would require us to come up with a new rendering solution, so it's not a few days work. And performance of rendering may also suffer because of transparency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkopec91 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 @Aidaknow, @TungstenMD - I've created a tool (still beta version), that automates workaround mentioned above. It triggers whenever Windows background changes, takes a snippet of current background, and saves it to a file (you'll setup Aida64 to use this file as panel background and It'll automatically reload it's background whenever said file changes). There's a lot to be improved, but it works as-is for me in Windows 8.1 (edit: works with Windows 10 as well) I plan on preparing some more detailed description, and improving this tool, but since it might be hard for me to find some time - I hope this will somewhat solve the problem. Note 1: Your input file will vary (it's most likely C:\Users\ [YOURUSERNAME] \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper). This should be set automatically. Note 2: Right now all wallpapers in slideshow need to be correct size, as no rescaling is implemented. Note 3: If you've got a problem setting it up please let me know. If it works let me know as well SOURCE CODE: https://github.com/dkopec91/BGSnippet DOWNLOAD PAGE: https://bit.ly/BGSnippet SETUP AND DEMO VIDEO ON YOUTUBE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicu Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 On 11/19/2017 at 11:08 PM, dkopec91 said: ... I've created a tool (still beta version), that automates workaround mentioned above .... Just tested this out on latest build of Win10 and it works like a charm. Thank you very much for sharing it @dkopec91 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegazinho Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 This trick doesn't work for me anymore, I have a full hd screen and the default DPI is 125% when I try to cut the wallpaper to use as background on the sensor panel it's not aligned. On Aida64 I have as dimensions 500x80 but when I take a screenshot and measure the sensor panel it is 625x100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkopec91 Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 @tegazinho, it's happening because desktop wallpaper isn't changed by Windows scaling, while Sensor Panel is. First thing that comes to mind is taking this 625x100 piece of wallpaper that SP currently covers, and resizing it to 500x80. Use the scaled down image as a Sensor Panel background, so that when the Windows scaling kicks in, you'll get the right size background. It probably won't look great after 2 time resizing, but if you set the correct opacity it might not be that bad. Let us know how it turned out - if it's acceptable I might add this scaling option to BGSnippet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SverreMunthe Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 10/10/2017 at 5:00 PM, Fiery said: Since there's a workaround for this issue (that I've mentioned above), we're not considering getting back to working on it. It would require us to come up with a new rendering solution, so it's not a few days work. And performance of rendering may also suffer because of transparency. Your workaround is total garbage in these days and ages. My background is Aquasuite from Aquacomputer, a dynamic background. I'm guessing I'm not alone having a dynamic background. And for someone up there's sake, is it so very difficult to add transparency? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/24/2019 at 12:05 PM, SverreMunthe said: Your workaround is total garbage in these days and ages. My background is Aquasuite from Aquacomputer, a dynamic background. I'm guessing I'm not alone having a dynamic background. And for someone up there's sake, is it so very difficult to add transparency? Yes, it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SverreMunthe Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 21 hours ago, Fiery said: Yes, it is. Total garbage? Or would you have me believe it's difficult to add transparency background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 6 minutes ago, SverreMunthe said: Total garbage? Or would you have me believe it's difficult to add transparency background? Yes, it is very difficult to develop a fully transparent SensorPanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugues Gauthier Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 10/10/2017 at 11:00 AM, Fiery said: Since there's a workaround for this issue (that I've mentioned above), we're not considering getting back to working on it. It would require us to come up with a new rendering solution, so it's not a few days work. And performance of rendering may also suffer because of transparency. sorry but is not a workaround 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToxicTrain Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Same request as others, I have animated desktop background so workaround is not an option. I would love to see a transparent background and an option for a GIF instead of an image for a background. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wondersquid Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 The "workaround" is great but not for animated wallpapers. I've made some that work ok when the entire panel is set to about 40% transparency. Maybe some day I'm guessing not soon as this request goes back 10 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryocide Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 We just want the same option that the OSD has. It's not like we're not paying for the new features, given the subscription model for updates. Seeing how the lettering and graphics in my SP brighten up when elements of the animated wallpaper behind it pass beneath them, I guess the modern workaround would be to create a mask from the SP, including all graph lines, gauge images, and numbers and apply that mask to the video files used in the animated wallpaper as a watermark. This is also a garbage workaround for closed-source software that's still actively being sold and updated when the feature request is a decade old. Even the multiple aRGB lighting software suites I have to use for my LED strips and RAM allow for alpha channel transparency. Pedestrian travel is a workaround when there's no train between cities, but that doesn't mean it's a GOOD workaround. Telling people to use someone else's software to make a workaround for the product is, well, telling me to just go find another vendor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oppressa Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Yes I would definitely pay to have this development work done. As mentioned there doesn't seem to be a solution if we have an animated wallpaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRick Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Talk about selling a product and then ignoring your user base. It's clear this is a huge feature that's missing for those of us that use live wallpapers. We paid for the product so you're no longer interested in our opinions. Pretty sad way to do business. You're of course not obligated to care what we want but it's good practice to improve your product based on feedback from users. Oh well, I'll find another option since this clearly isn't happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathnitte Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 2023... would love transparent background for live wallpaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golemyte Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 2023 still waiting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_T_S Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 I'm on the trial currently after seeing jayz2cents video on this and I would love to support the project. But this feature is a must for me as I want to have it overlay while I'm gaming and the panel background transparency seems to already be implemented on another feature of the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faulieh Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 August 2023 - still no option to have an opaque background or simply choose no background at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rei Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 2023 still not possible to put an animated background or a transparent background, sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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