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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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Background blur with CSS

I want an Vista/7-aero-glass-style effect on a popup on my site, and it needs to be dynamic. I'm fine with this not being a cross-browser effect as long as the site still works on all modern browsers. My first attempt was to use something…
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How do you set the glass blend colour on Windows 10?

Using the undocumented SetWindowCompositionAttribute API on Windows 10, it's possible to enable glass for a window. The glass is white or clear, as seen in this screenshot: However, the Windows 10 Start menu and the notification center, which both…
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Aero: How to draw solid (opaque) colors on glass?

Using GDI+ to draw various colors: brush = new SolidBrush(color); graphics.FillRectangle(brush, x, y, width, height); You'll notice that no opaque color shows properly on glass: How do i draw solid colors on glass? You'll also notice that a fully…
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Qt: Erase background (Windows Aero Glass)

Update see Using Blur Behind on Windows for an example of using Qt and DWM.alt text http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/blurbehind2.png Original question: I want to create a Windows Aero Glass window with Qt, now it looks…
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Delphi cutting glass

I'm using Delphi XE2, and I like glass effects, and I want to "cut" glass as in Windows 7 tablet tools. If you also know how cut a button I'll be happy if you tell me how. Thanks
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Documentation and API Samples for drawing on Windows Aero Glass (DWM, GDI, GDI+) for all Win32 programmers

I am looking for good resources for learning to use the Win32/GDI APIs or whatever supercedes it to draw and paint directly using the Win32 API to a glass form. While I am using Delphi, I tagged this as Delphi or Visual C++. Any code samples and…
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Google Chrome style tabs on glass in Delphi

I am trying to implement Google Chrome style tabs, in Windows 7, in a Delphi application. The elements of this are: tabs may extend into the non-client area as they do in google chrome itself. draws properly on Vista and Windows 7 when glass is…
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global disable magnifying glass on iOS 9 in meteor cordova app

I have tested several workarounds to disable the annoying magnifying glass with css, but on my iOS9 meteor cordova build it appears for a moment and fades out after some ms. it was working on iOS 8 but not on iOS 9 now with this css code: body,…
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How to draw a custom caption bar like the yahoo messenger 11

As you can see, Y! messenger 11 have used some techniques to draw a beautiful caption bar. Its window's like normal windows in the Win 7 but have a special caption. Is this a glass frame? How can i create one like this??
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How do I create a window with different Aero glass frame?

I think there is a customized window style in Windows 7. like this : And as you can see it's different from normal style : How can i create a window with the style that you can see in the first picture ?
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Blurring the background of a semi-transparent form (like Aero glass)

I have a borderless, non-resizable WPF form (WindowStyle=None, AllowsTransparency=True, ResizeMode=NoResize) with a semi-transparent background. Here's a picture of how the form, a semi-transparent red rectangle, looks right now, running on top of…
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Aero: How to draw ClearType text on glass?

Using GDI+ to draw text on glass: graphics.DrawString(s, Length(s), font, MakePointF(x, y), brush); You'll notice that the ClearType enabled text draws very poorly on glass: But with glass disabled the text, of course, draw fine: By way of…
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Delphi: Aero-Glass Tabs

I would want to have tabs like here (all are glass): A program is written in Delphi or C++ Builder. I can't find a class of the tabs in Winspector Spy & Window Detective. I know a very good component - rkAeroTabs, but unfortunately it doesn't show…
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How to use WindowChrome without Windows Aero glass effects in wpf, black border

I'm trying to customize a window border by using the WindowChrome class. Without Windows Aero glass effects. As expected I end up with a black boarder. But i also end up without caption buttons From Microsoft i learn that i can use the standard…
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Delphi buttons show white border on Aero glass

I have been trying to find a good-looking design using Aero in Delphi 2010. One of the obvious uses one sees, is where the glass frame is extended to include the OK/Cancel buttons at the bottom of the screen. I notice though that this doesn't look…
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