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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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c# how to make a Windows 7 aero winform (blured glass)?

how to make somthing like this Windows Forms Glass Effect, Make ImageBox transparent I use VS 2010
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Aero Glass Buttons Like Windows Media Player?

I am making making a program and I want to have a Aero Glass set of controls just like Windows Media Player, I found this: Link but it just draws black. I also found a control that had the media player controls built in right ton the glass but it…
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Visual styles in Windows 8

I have the following C++ code (native desktop app) that uses Microsoft's Visual Styles API to draw a close button. RECT r = DetermineButtonRect(); HANDLE h = OpenThemeData(Handle, L"WINDOW"); DrawThemeBackground(h, hdc, WP_CLOSEBUTTON, CBS_NORMAL,…
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How to make entire window aero glass in Java?

I am trying to program a small application but I would like the entire window to be glass with buttons and labels on top of it. Is it possible to do this within Java?
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Delphi 2009 Ribbon Controls - Glass Frame

I've been starting to use the new inbuilt Ribbon controls in Delphi 2009 and use the custom frame so the Application button and Mini-toolbar slide up onto the Window Frame, but I'm wondering if on Vista it should use the glass effect like Office…
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Delphi 2010 button with Windows version that has Aero glass on turns text white

The other day, I started to play with different visual effects in Delphi, and ran into a problem using Aero Glass effect (I have a Delphi 2010 installed): when I put the button on the glass, some part of this button (or some other element) burns and…
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WinAPI Aero Glass without ATL/WTL/MFC/SDK/etc

I've been looking for ages for C++ examples for Aero Glass interfaces using just WinAPI (CreateWindow/CreateWindowEx) without ATL/WTL/MFC/etc. I found someone linking to one somewhere on a forum but the link was dead and I couldn't find any…
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Glass look for MDI windows under Vista

I am developing a winforms MDI application in C# in VS 2008. I have noticed that the MDI forms don't have the glass look under Vista. Is this by design? Is there a simple way to get the glass look for these windows?
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How would you use Aero glass in UI design

I have a number of utilities that were written in the days of yore and look very dated. So I recently set out to make them use Windows themes and wanted to incorporate some Aero glass effects. Thing is, I'm not quite sure what the appropriate use…
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Problems with Aero Glass in Delphi 7 applications

I'm trying to remake some of my older projects to support Aero Glass. Although it's kinda easy to enable glass frame, I've encountered some major problems. I used this code: var xVer: TOSVersionInfo; hDWM: THandle; DwmIsCompositionEnabled:…
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My OpenGL game switches Aero DWM Glass off

I wrote a free game a few years ago: http://www.walkover.org. For the lobby and menus, it uses normal dialogs like win32. When the actual game starts it uses OpenGL. Now, on Windows 7, when the actual game starts, it switches windows aero glass off…
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Windows Aero areas in own C# Applications

I'm wondering about that many new applications, I think most built in WPF, has this really cool Windows Aero Glass interfaces. For example Seesmic or the upcoming Firefox 3.7 (source: crenk.com) Searching in the internet most time it looks like…
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Google Glass XE21 Bluetooth LE Disconnects automatically

I am trying to write an application for google glass to read the RSSI value of a stickNFind Beacon on regular intervals (800 milli seconds) for which I need to connect to gatt server. When I try to connect to the gatt server in BluetothLE mode, it…
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Google glass video stream

I'm trying to create an app for Glass to stream video using GDK. I found nice example with libstreaming (https://github.com/fyhertz/libstreaming) there: Google Glass stream video to server The solution there creates stream server on the phone. VLC…
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Google Glass and data from sensors

Based on what I've read, Google Glass supports most/all sensors, and existing Android APIs are available to access sensors on a mobile device. However, the GDK (gdk.jar) contains only gesture and voice-related class files, which means that custom…
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