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Aero Glass is a Microsoft Windows desktop theme, incorporating various animation and transparency effects into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM).

Aero Glass is a Microsoft Windows desktop theme, incorporating various animation and transparency effects into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM).

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Custom dwm drawn window frame flickers on resizing if the window contains a HwndHost element

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days but I think I lack some basic understanding of how windows and wpf work internally to figure this out. The problem is this: I created a window that should let me draw wpf controls on an aero title…
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Delphi XE with Aero effects causes paint issue

I have upgraded to Delphi XE from 2009 and am experiencing a strange issue. I create a new project, put down a TRibbon control, compile and run. Keeping the form in its default size I then minimize and restore without issues. I then maximise the…
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Glass is not rendered right

I made a form and extended the glass in it like in the image below. But when I move the window so not all of it is visible on screen, the glass rendering is wrong after I move it back: How can I handle this so the window is rendered correctly? This…
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How can activate a glass effect (windows Vista/7) in a console application using Delphi

As I can activate the glass effect on my console applications. I am using Windows 7 and Delphi 2010. I found this application so it should be possible.
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Changing the colour of Aero glass for my window?

I'm using DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea in my WPF application to get the glass effect. This is working fine. What I'd like to do is change the colour used for the glass -- I'm writing a countdown timer, and I'd like the window to be the normal glass…
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Component on glass area

How do I put a control (button, panel, pagecontrol, label) in the glass area of a windows form? Thanks!
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How to add Window's Aero effects to a JPanel?

I'm trying to have Aero Glass look in my JPanel. Is it possible do such a thing? How to add Aero effect to JFrame - like this picture?
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How can I get Aero Glass on a Windows Form without Borders?

I'm trying to have Aero Glass look in my forms in VB.NET 2010 app with DWM API, but as function call suggests, it extends look of Frame to the client area, and if form has no border, nothing will happen and form will become invisible. So, can I get…
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Combining Aero Glass effects and SWT

As a pet project, I've been playing with the concept of integrating Aero Glass effects into my SWT application. Łukasz Milewski has an excellent blog post explaining how this can be accomplished, which pretty much boils down to this: final Display…
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Water and Glass material

I try to simulate light reflection, refraction, etc. in a fish tank and I need water material and glass material. Actually I use no water and a phong material for the glass because I haven't found better for now, a testing demo can be see here:…
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How do you do a gradient fade to Aero glass in a WPF application like Office 2010 does?

I am writing an application in WPF and I would like to have the top of the application fade from a color to Aero glass like the Office 2010 applications. Really it will be fading the area just below the title bar from glass to a color. (I think…
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Glowing Label Controls On A Glass Surface

Is there any way, and any tutorials, articles, samples around that allow each and every new Label Control created at runtime to have a Glow around it, just like on Vista/7? Thank you
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WPF glass window with no border and no resize out of focus

I am trying to create a Aero glass borderless and non-resizable WPF window using the DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow method from the DmwAPI. However, for some strange reason the glass color of this window appears as if the window is out of focus. As you…
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GemStone-Linux-Apache-Seaside-Smalltalk.. how practical is 4GB?

I am really interested in GLASS. The 4GB limit for the free version has me concerned. Especially when I consider the price for the next level ($7000 year). I know this can be subjective and variable, but can someone describe for me in everyday…
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Enabling Aero effect in Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Workstation and would like to enable Aero Glass for some software development. Is there a way to enable Aero Glass on Server? Thanks in advance, NieAR
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