"Glowing" borders about jankyborders

[FelixKratz]

I have added a subtle glow effect which can be actived by passing glow(0xAARRGGBB) to a <color> argument.

[FelixKratz]

Looks good. We could include this in the current configuration syntax as another special color argument e.g:

borders active_color=glow(0xAARRGGBB)

Or something like that.

I am still thinking about moving the drawing logic to a CALayer backed solution for GPU acceleration, where these animations could be included relatively easily, but I am not sure if that is worth the effort.

Maybe we start off with a static glow for now.

[FelixKratz]

I am not sure this can be achieved only by tweaking the window shadow properties, afaik there is no way to change the color of the shadow. I can change positioning density etc. via:

extern CGError SLSSetWindowShadowParameters(int cid, uint32_t wid, float std, float density, int x_offset, int y_offset);

and there are some other properties to be controlled via

extern CGError SLSWindowSetShadowProperties(uint32_t wid, CFDictionaryRef properties);

but I have not seen a way to change the actual shadow color.

[koekeishiya]

How about using https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/1455205-cgcontextsetshadowwithcolor?language=objc

[Bellavene]

Was trying to install through --HEAD, and borders broke. They render somewhere outside the window. Reinstalled last release and it works ok.

[FelixKratz]

Should be fixed on master.

[Bellavene]

Thank you! I still believe that animation would be more interesting : )

[FelixKratz]

I will at some point explore simple animations on window focus/unfocus, but a permanently moving glow around the border is probably not something I am personally interested in.

If someone wants to give it a go, I will gladly accept a PR.

[Bellavene]

Thanks. Nah, I don't want permanently moving glow neither.