How does Windows 7 taskbar "color hot-tracking" feature calculate the colour to use?
- by theyetiman
This has intrigued me for quite some time.
Does anyone know the algorithm Windows 7 Aero uses to determine the colour to use as the hot-tracking hover highlight on taskbar buttons for currently-running apps?
It is definitely based on the icon of the app, but I can't see a specific pattern of where it's getting the colour value from.
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