aero

Now Im customizing title bar of my application. My aim is to add one extra button on title bar. Im my previous question people have adviced me the way I can customize non client area. Thats works perfectly except one small thing - glowing ! I can draw glowing in nonclient area but I cannot make it spreads out of the window . I also cant find any resource about this subj. I looked into this sample and made my own test app for investigating non client drawing facilities. Screen shot of my app's window: So you can see that system button glows out of the windows when my is clipped by borderframe.

Is it possible to disable the automatic window-docking feature of Windows 7 in a WPF application? I recently needed to do this to a custom, resizable ResizeMode = CanResizeWithGrip WPF window with no window decorations (no title bar and buttons). I used DragMove() to move the window, and when It is maximized by AeroSnap, the window becomes unmovable and hence locked in place. I tried Barn Monkey's solution , which partially worked, but it would still show the AeroSnap graphic and resize the app to fullscreen size. I modified it below and now it works as expect: still resizable, but no AeroSnap

I am making a application with a borderless window on Windows. However, since the window is borderless, I have no areo shadow, snap, minimization animation, or shake. I have looked around and found no site that explains how to implement this. However, I know it is possible because Office 2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Steam all have these features and are borderless. I am specifically using QT and C++ but if you have solved this for another windowing library I would like to hear your solutions as well. either. And by areo shadow I don't mean drop shadow on two sides, I mean the glowing shadow

How do you use DwmGetColorizationColor ? The documentation says it returns two values: a 32-bit 0xAARRGGBB containing the color used for glass composition a boolean parameter that is true "if the color is an opaque blend" ( whatever that means ) Here's a color that i like, a nice puke green: You can notice the color is greeny, and the translucent title bar (against a white background) shows the snot color very clearly: i try to get the color from Windows: DwmGetColorizationColor(dwCcolorization, bIsOpaqueBlend); And i get dwColorization: 0x0D0A0F04 bIsOpaqueBlend: false According to the