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I played a little with skrommel's "ColourTaskbar" ( www.donationcoders.com/skrommel ) which cycles the colour of the taskbar by setting a transparent colour and having a gui behind it that changes colour. For me it's not practical because of "clicking through" to the gui on the transparent areas.

However, it made me wonder if it would be impossible to add a command such as "WinSet, ChangeColor" to alter a colour in a window instead of making it transparent (and also not "clicking through" to the window behind). As well as just eye candy, it could be very useful for indicating certain states or actions being performed by the script.

It's probably not possible or maybe it would have been done already, but I thought I'd mention it

Although you can temporarily alter the color of pixels in a window (or even the entire window) via OS drawing calls such as SetPixel, it wouldn't be a permanent change because the moment you move the window or it redraws itself for any other reason, the change would be undone by the repainting procedure inside the program.

You may know that some of the standard colors in the OS can be changed via Desktop Theme. Also, it's probably not too useful but if you go into Control Panel > Display > Advanced, you can change the default background color of all windows and controls from white to a custom color such as light gray.