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Windows Aero is the graphical user interface and the default theme in most editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7

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Windows Vista and 7 motion effects are applied only once when my form is shown. Why?

I created an application with two forms. First one is the main form and second one is hidden. I placed a button on Form1 and I made it ShowModal the second form. On Win7 the form appears with an animation. Then I close the appeared form (Form2) and…
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GDI+: Why is FillRectangle transparent on glass, while FillEllipse is opaque?

i'm drawing a rectangle, and an ellipse, on glass. brush = new SolidBrush(0xFF000000); //solid (i.e. non-opaque) black graphics.FillRectangle(brush, x, y, 30, 30); graphics.FillEllipse(brush, x+33, y-15, 30, 30); drawing with ellipse:…
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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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Delphi Application Main Form temporarly flicking to the front

We have a Delphi 2007 application and have recently enabled MainFormOnTaskBar for better support of Windows Aero. However because the main form would not come to the top of all child forms when clicked we added the following code. procedure…
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Disable aero fade-in effect on dialog

I have a modal dialog I'm creating with MFC. When it appears, the Aero theme does it's fade-in transition for a new window appearing. In my particular case I'm switching immediately from one dialog to another and the fade effect is distracting. …
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I want to disable the shadow effect on a specific aero window

I want to disable the shadow effect on a specific aero window. All I have is the HWND of this window, is this possible?
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How to shift the start coordinates of the client area on the window?

I have refereed below article to draw a custom frame area with DWM. Custom Window Frame Using DWM After removing the standard frame, non client area is not exist in the frame. void CMainFrame::OnNcCalcSize(BOOL bCalcValidRects, NCCALCSIZE_PARAMS*…
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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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How to change Form Border to Windows Basic instead of Aero Style?

I want to know if it is possible, and if so how to change a forms border style to Windows Basic instead of the Aero theme? Obviously taking into consideration whether Aero is enabled or not in the first place, if it is not then there is no need to…
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How can I detect Aero glass effect is supported and turned on?

I have an WPF application which I wish it can enable blur when I set the background translucent. Currently I'm using Win32 API DwmIsCompositionEnabled to detect whether composition is enabled. This API works on OS which support Aero glass effect.…
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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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Visual Studio 2012 MFC wizard generated application glitches with aero

For some time I have been struggling with this glitch in MFC. It can be easily observed. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 create a new MFC application, in wizard settings set Multiple documents/Tabbed documents, Office 2007 Black style run the…
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How to correctly screencapture a specific window on Aero/DWM

Background info: I have this MFC application I coded and been using for a long time that pretty much automatically saves screenshots to the hard disk when the user hits the Print Screen/Alt+Print Screen key. I have been putting off using anything…
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How to programmatically disable window animation under Vista Aero?

My application does automated screenshots of several dynamically created forms. This works perfectly under Windows XP, but doesn't work well under Vista Aero. Most of the forms appear semitransparent in the screenshots. The problem lies in the…
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Performance of an WPF application worse, when Aero is disabled?

I am working on a WPF application. During tests I noticed, that the application runs way smoother, if I switch to a Windows Aero Theme instead of a Basic Theme. Why does this happen - and how can I make sure that the applications always runs as…
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