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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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How do I change the glow color of text drawn using DrawThemeTextEx?

DrawThemeTextEx is the API to draw Windows Vista and 7's Aero text, that is, text with a glowing halo. To change the text colour used when drawing with DrawThemeTextEx, you set the crText field of the DTTOPTS structure and specify DTT_TEXTCOLOR in…
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WPF Glass window fallback?

Creating Glass window is as easy as calling DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea in WPF, but that is only half of the trick. If you disable aero, and get the XP-like skin thats where the pain begins: In XP (or disabled aero) you must call…
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Ray Trace Refraction looks "fake"

So in my ray tracer that I'm building I've gotten refraction to work for spheres along with caustic effects, however the glass spheres don't look particularly good. I believe the refracted math is correct because the light appears to be bending in…
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Enable Vista glass effect on a borderless WPF window

I wrote an attached property that I can set on a window to extend the glass frame into the client area (using the DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea API). It works fine in most cases. Now I want my window to be borderless, so I set the following…
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.NET: How to get ActiveCaptionText color when window is maximized?

How do you get the ActiveCaptionText color when a window is maximized? The color is correct when the window is restored: But is the wrong color when the window is maximized: How do you get the active ActionCaptionText? Note: Same question for…
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Is it possible to change the glass color only for my own forms?

I would like to create my application forms in the color independent from the user's color settings of the Aero. Is it possible to colorize my forms with the selected color without affecting the user's settings ? This I want to do only for the…
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DrawThemeTextEx and clipped glow

Using this complete example I could draw text on Aero Glass. The rendering is perfectly fine, but there is a visual problem: the glow is clipped on the text-alignment side. FYI, text format is defined like this: Dim uFormat As Integer =…
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Delphi: 32-bit image does not display correctly on Glass Form

I have a PNG (32-bit) image in a TImage. A form has a Glass Frame. Picture's background is black, not transparent. How to fix it? Delphi 2010. Thanks.
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Desktop Icon manipulation - how to get a handle to SysListView32 when themes with picture rotation are enabled

I'm trying to move icons around the desktop, everything works well until a theme that has picture rotation is picked. With a basic Windows 7 theme, the SysListView32 is child of SHELLDLL_DefView which is in turn child of Progman. But when a picture…
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DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea without TransparencyKey?

When using DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea function I need to choose Form.TransparencyKey, a color that a glass will be drawn on instead. The problem is that i writing image-edit tool, and when TransparencyKey color appear inside the edited image, the…
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TextBox text becoming transparent when using Aero Blur in WinForms

Recently I discovered how to get Aero Blur to work in borderless Forms across Windows Vista, 7 and 10. I am achieving this using the following function: private void UpdateAeroBlur() { if (!SupportsAeroBlur) //do not do anything if XP or older …
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Glass/ refraction image effect HTML/CSS

I am fairly new to all this, so, please bear with me. I am struggling to achieve an image effect, similar to refraction, caused by rounded glass. I understand that the easiest method would be to use and to learn JS, which would ultimately solve…
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Non-resizeable, bordered WPF Windows with WindowStyle=None

Basically, I need a window to look like the following image: http://screenshots.thex9.net/2010-05-31_2132.png (Is NOT resizeable, yet retains the glass border) I've managed to get it working with Windows Forms, but I need to be using WPF. To get it…
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QT/QML How to create a frameless window with aero (blurred) background

Following code create a window in QML with Aero background (transparent and blurred). import QtQuick 2.4 import QtQuick.Window 2.2 import QtWinExtras 1.0 as Win Window{ width: 500 height: 300 visible: true x: 500 y: 100 …
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My APP want get the message from SMS Inbox, how to do that

My APP (In IOS platform) want get the message from SMS Inbox, how to do that? I also know that Google Glass APP can do that in iphone. How to get the message from SMS inbox in swift? thanks very much.
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