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Windows aero peek API

I am trying to use the API for aero peek. With a lot of digging and searching I stumbled upon this piece of code: [DllImport("dwmapi.dll", EntryPoint = "#113", SetLastError = true)] internal static extern uint DwmpActivateLivePreview(uint ,…
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Is it possible to use Aero Peek for MDI children within a winforms application?

I've seen from the Windows API Code Pack that it is possible to enable custom glass in a winforms application, but I've been unable to ascertain how to get child windows to show as separte thumbnails for aero peek (in much the same manner that IE…
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How do I programmatically invoke Aero Peek on a window?

Raymond Chen has confirmed that there is no publicly documented way to do this. Does anyone know an undocumented solution?
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Disable Aero Peek in WPF application

I want to disable Aero Peek in my WPF application (my application must be visible when user placed the mouse over the button "Show desktop"). I use this PInvoke signature: [Flags] public enum DwmWindowAttribute : uint { …
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Windows Aero Peek showing only title bar when minimized

Using Delphi 10 Seattle on Windows 10, as well as the Windows 10 Dark VCL Style. When the window is in its normal state, hovering over the taskbar icon shows the full window in the thumbnail. However, if I minimize my application, then hovering over…
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MessageBox not shown when opened processing WM_CLOSE from taskbar thumbnail close button

Trying to put up a "Do you want to save"-dialog when trying to close window with close-button in taskbar thumbnail in windows 7(with aero peek active). Using MessageBox() when processing WM_CLOSE does not work. MessageBox won't show until you move…
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How to detect which Window was selected when using Aero peek

I am not even sure how to ask this question... I have a WPF app with a main window in full screen. It launches new windows in full screen and makes them a child of the main window upon some user interactions. If the user's machine only has a single…
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Removing taskbar thumbnail close button

In Visual Studio it is possible to remove the "X" in the upper right corner of a window (form) by setting ControlBox to false. However, even with that set to false, there is still a X closing button that shows up in the upper right corner of the…
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Get thumbnail image of the main page of all the running process in window

In my app I want to enable the user to see a small thumbnail, of the main window, for all the running process (that has window). My app is a regular window desktop application (written in wpf) I don't want to bring the other processes to foreground…
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Windows 7 Aero Peek of Tabs in Java Desktop App

I would like to implement Aero Peek of tabs in my desktop application (as per the functionality provided by Internet Explorer and this Firefox extension). I'm coding in Java, but appreciate that I may need to use some native hooks to get this…
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