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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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Aero Glass works fine on Windows 7, but doesn't work on Vista

To use Aero Glass in my C# application I use if {DWM.DwmIsCompositionEnabled()) { Color c = Color.FromArgb(255, 221, 220, 220); Transparency Key = c; panel1.BackColor = c; panel2.BackColor = c; MARGINS mr = new MARGINS(); …
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Google Glass Character limit in a static card

I trying to explore Google Glass. I have a question what the character limit for the card view and what will happen if the text is more than character limit. kindly advice me if any one has the actual Glass and explored this View. Thank &…
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How to create a full glass, round frame form in c#?

Here's how I want the form to look like: Here's what I've tried so far: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct MARGINS { public int Left; public int Right; public int Top; public int Bottom; …
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Aero Glass Theme (Windows Forms)

A litle while ago I was on Codeproject and came across a cool little tesxteditor and the whole form was made out of aero-glass, and the whole textbox was too. But I can't find it anymore. Does anybody know where it's gone? Or how I can make my…
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Aeroglass and Visual Basic.Net

are there any tutorials, or, is there simple code to be used to control Aeroglass in VB.NET? I would like to know how to play with various effects and, if possible, how to do the Aeroglass effects done in Paint.NET 3.5. (The inside of the topbar is…
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Labels & SpeedButtons not showing in Glass Frame - Delphi XE4

Look at the picture below. when I add a label and a Speed Button and run the program, none of them will show but the label that has a glow ( GlowSize=1 ) When I run the program: You see? Even the second label is not showing correctly and it's very…
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Why does "ExcludeControlFromAero" doesn't work?

I'm using the Microsoft Windows API Code Pack to display a form as "GlassForm". In that GlassForm I need to exclude my combobox from Aero, because the font of it is also getting transparent, but this.ExcludeControlFromAeroGlass(comboBox); doesn't…
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DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow makes the entire client area transparent

Aero glass causes alot of people problems trying to draw on it. Anything with an alpha value of 255 seems to be treated as transparent with DWM using an additive blur to draw it. I want a part of client area to use Aero glass with the rest of it…
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How to detect aero basic theme

I can have Windows 7 theme (transparency in title bar) and Windows 7 basic theme (no transparency). How can I differentiate between them? Is there any API which can tell me if glass effect has been enabled. I am currently using…
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Adding glass effect to listbox item

I have a stackpanel with a background image. Inside the stackpanel there is a ListBox and its background is set to transparent, what I need is to blur (glass effect) the background image only the part that comes under the listbox item. I tried to…
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WPF child window Aero glass displays incorrectly

I have a WPF window that enables glass on itself during its SourceInitialized event. This works perfectly. I'll use the simplest example possible (just one window object) to demonstrate where the issue is. public partial class MainWindow : Window { …
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How can I create a 2D shattering glass effect?

I'm working on creating a game in Adobe Flash CS6, and the game starts off with an animation where the main character is running and breaks a glass vase. I don't want a completely accurate shattering glass effect where the vase might fall on the…
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Drag'n Drop Problems with extended glass border

I'm playing around with the glass border in WPF and I've found a problem. When I extend the glass border of a window, the drag and drop functions won't work anymore... for example dragging a GridSplitter around ends with an exception. The XAML of my…
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how create a rectangle glass like windows media center xaml

I want to create a rectangle glass and a menu exact like that is in windows media center i want do it with xaml not blend... please help i want create a menu like this for my app. want do this too
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C# making aero glass form a MDI one causes weird background color

I have a fullscreen form with aero glass enabled which is working fine until I set "IsMdiContainer" to "true". The form still has the aero effect but everything behind it is shown with an insane brightness. Here's a picture for clarification, lower…
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