I want to try and get the same look as Windows 7, with the aero glass dropping down just a little bit so that there can be a back button/address bar/ search box. Are there any tutorials on how to do this? I really need something simple, as I tried looking at a few other tutorials that try to explain how to use DWM with c# and I get totally lost.
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4Isn't this something more suited to WPF than WinForms? – David Heffernan Jan 07 '11 at 09:30
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not sure, I am trying to make a winforms, maybe that is where I am going wrong? – Sean Jan 07 '11 at 09:33
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1Absolutely use WPF, WinForms is a nightmare for this sort of thing. Combine it with http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack and you're on to a winner. – Tom Jan 07 '11 at 09:46
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@Tom: Why didn't you put that as an answer? That is exactly what it seems he is looking for. – Christopher B. Adkins Jan 07 '11 at 09:51
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Done as an answer :)
Absolutely use WPF, WinForms is a nightmare for this sort of thing. Combine it with http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack and you're on to a winner.
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Ive been using the glass_full class from the site below on WinForms and and it works great. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/146813-glass-form-dwmapidll-api/
I found a workaround for the black text issue with WinForms is to simply set backcolor and transparencyKey to a unused color. (To prevent clickthrough, make sure the red and blue values are different, I use 221,222,223 as my color values so it gracefully fallsback to grey without Aero)
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