[2008] Reproduce Vista Aero Text Glow Effect
Jul 7, 2008
Have you ever seen the whitish glow around the titlebar text in Vista? You know, the feathering around the text that makes it stand out from the Aero glass? Well if you haven't, look at the picture in the attachment. Does anyone have an idea as to how I may reproduce it, specifically draw it around some text on the Aero glass? I already know that the Aero glass can be implemented using some APIs in dwmapi.dll. Are APIs for the glow also in that dll? I'm unable to find any info on how to do this in the official documentation.
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May 14, 2008
[2008] Reproduce Vista Aero text glow effect
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Sep 1, 2009
how can i add an aero form shadow/glow effect to my controls?(i mean the shadow/glow around an aero form)
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Aug 2, 2010
How can i add an aero form shadow/glow effect to my controls?
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Dec 22, 2009
I am not an advanced VB programmer as I create applications for fun at home, so am hoping someone can help me with this. I would like to add a mouse over glow type effect to a control (doing this on a picturebox at the moment). I did this very simplistically by creating a user control and having a picturebox within a picturebox, one of which is not visible. On the mouse over, I just make it visible and it does look cool as it has rounded edges and all that. But I assume this is not a good technique and really limits you. I would like to do it so I can define the color, glow size, etc... kind of like the glow effect in Flex.
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May 12, 2012
How to make a picture glow & blur even if the picture contains transparent color?
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Jul 20, 2011
how to get working aero in Visual Basic 2008.I am making this media player and got everything I need for that. But what I really wanted is aero since Windows Vista got a nice interface and a few lucky people got it.But the tutorials I got worked great on Windows 7! However, I couldn't get aero because of a transparency key. (I swear I use a color picker to see if background color and transparency key are the same color.)I can't get it to work any piece of code I give.But the good part is that aero WILL work on any 7 or Vista without any form change, but the text is white with blue specks and that is not what I want.
EDIT:i found how to do it now! you need to use the property UseCompatibleTextRendring and put it to True. Now the problem is how do i do the same for the rest? (microsoft was to lazy to edit the controls)
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Mar 31, 2012
is there a way to have that aero glass effect using XP Pro when creating forms and please give me walk thru on this. I want to have that look on all my forms.
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Nov 21, 2010
How would I implement the Aero effect in my applications?
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Apr 13, 2011
visual basic 2010 code or tutorial video on how to add the aero effect to my form for Windows Xp environment? What is the code of adding an aero effect to VB form in Visual basic 2010 for Windows XP environment?
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Dec 9, 2011
I had set my form initially load in aero glass effect.Then i want let the user can choose solid colour or aero glass effect.Wat should i put in my coding to let the form can become solid colour?
<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
Public Structure MARGINS
Public cxLeftWidth As Integer
Public cxRightWidth As Integer
[code]....
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Sep 2, 2011
I'm having trouble getting an naero glass code which works properly. I hav ecome across many in which anything black becomes aero aswell. Is it possible to have the black text unaffected by the aero like, change it so that another colour becomes aero instead?Also this is just an extra but can you change the colour of the aero you have? Like default is blue change you change it to like yellow, or black or another colour?
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Mar 8, 2008
How can I enable the cool vista aero effects within my vb.net application? I wish to make portions of the form, or prehaps even the whole form, have the transparent glass effect.
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Nov 7, 2010
I found this question on StackOverflow. Basically, the user wanted to draw custom buttons on the titlebar. I tried the code and realised it works in vista/7 only when Aero is disabled. My question is, is there any way to draw custom buttons on the titlebar while aero is enabled? Any way of reading information from the current theme so I can style my buttons to match the already existing ones.
Here is a screenshot from my computer demonstrating the above concept. I got the additional titlebar buttons after installing DisplayFusion. And I know DisplayFusion is a .NET program because it opens in .NET Reflector. The down side is that the program is obfuscated. Not like I wanted to decompile the program or anything; I just want to add a button to my titlebar to do something else (like minimise to the system tray for instance).
Below is the screenshot, proving the program is a .NET app.
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Aug 2, 2010
Can a form be Created that has Aero Glass when in Vista/Win7 and when running in XP or 98 use a regular border? If so can I have a link to the infromation or a code sample?
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Jan 10, 2011
How I can make Mouseover Vista Effect(icons) for picturebox?
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Mar 8, 2009
I have created a software project for my college using vb.net 2008
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May 30, 2009
i compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
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Jan 16, 2009
I am porting a college project made in VB6 to VB.NET, which I am quite new to. I'm finding data bindings a little more frustrating than the ADO controls VB6 had. Here is an example of RecordCount being used in the old code, from the login screen:
Private Sub cmdLogon_Click()
If txtID.Text = "" And txtPassword.Text = "" Then
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Jun 16, 2010
My problem is when I develop my own applications in Visual Basic 2008/2010 with the Aero interface, I cannot see the text both on the form and in components. After researching on the internet, I have come to a dead end. Is there a way of fixing
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May 28, 2009
Problem 1: I am running into a problem with my program that when UAC is active on Vistaaccess to C: and Program Files is not allowed. My program writes text files as a user types. Is there a safe place to write files to that may be some sort of standard instead of throwing files all over the place? Like maybe somewhere in the user's default folder's or something?
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Jun 21, 2009
Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
' Create a GraphicsPath.
Dim graphics_path As New Drawing2D.GraphicsPath
' Add some text to the path.
[code].....
Is what I tried after researching how to get clean text on an aero window, but it is still not nice looking.
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May 16, 2010
I using the VistaControls control library (here) and I have a WebBrowser control that will have black in it on the form. When I set the background color to black in the HTML, the glass renders fine. So I added some text that is red, but it shows up as a transparent red. How do I get the text to be opaque?
Also, if I want to have black text in the HTML, how do I get that to show correctly?
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Nov 21, 2011
I had following coding to make form have aero glass effect. but the text is become transparent too when i run it. how to make the text become no transparent? Thnx
<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
Public Structure MARGINS
Public cxLeftWidth As Integer
[Code]....
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Dec 10, 2011
after many weeks of annoying compatibility with windows xp, I realized that I should change the .netbar buttons to standard windows buttons. When I did this, and put the button on the transparency area and then debugged the application. I found out that the transparency add-in made the text inside the button transparent: How can I make the text show just the color, not transparent?
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May 13, 2009
I've successfully used DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea from dwmapi.dll. It adds glass to about 40 pixels down from the top, and 40 pixels up from the bottom. I can put a button on the glass and either set it's background color to transparent or it's UseCompatibleTextRendering = True so that is displays correctly on the glass (the middle part of the form is a regular form, I can put controls there fine). Now, here's my problem... I want to put a search text box at the top right hand section of the form on the glass (similiar to IE and other wizard like glass forms that have search boxes integrated). Also, this is a WinForm.
The problem:The glass effect causes any text in the text box to be transparent, I need to know how to get around it so the text box is always opaque.
What I've tried:
1.) Manually drawing the transparent color over the form in the Paint event, skipping the section where the text box is located (doesn't work).
2.) Change the color of the text in the text box so it's not black (since black triggers the glass effect). I couldn't get the glass to work at all with any color other than black (even when I set the form's transparcy key to another color).
3.) I've read and followed every FAQ / instruction list I could get my hands on to no avail (most were from 2006 before Vista in production).
4.) I've looked with UI Spy at the text box in the IE glass section, and that text box has a background color of transparent (which I tried and the .Net textbox/richtextbox don't allow you to set a background color of transparent)
I've read that you can create a custom control and custom draw it to be opaque, but I'm not sure where to start with that (I can make custom controls, but as per drawing them myself I need a little direction).
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Mar 27, 2011
I need to repeat the following in vb.net/asp.net.
<ul id="prod_nav" class="clearfix">
<li class="top"><a href="05-Pink-02-Category-List.html" class="top_link"><span class="down">Body and Trim</span></a>
<ul class="sub">
[code].....
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Sep 16, 2009
I can not find an example of how to reproduce graphically the level of a Auido wav
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May 27, 2009
I'm trying to find a way to reproduce the FolderBrowserDialog control functionality but not in a dialog. I'm been looking around for a good part of today for solutions but with very little progress. I found a few writeups on listing folders and their contents in a treeView but nothing about listing everything including "My Computer", "Desktop", etc. This seems like something that would've been built right in to Visual Studio. I'm working with VS 2005.
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Apr 13, 2011
In my application I have 4 panels. Each of which have a "mini-app" such as a calculator, sticky notes, etc.My GUI could use improvement so I had an idea of making the Border of a panel glow where if your mouse enters or focuses on the panel or its children the border glows.I have not yet worked with glowing type elements and am not sure how I would do this. I just want the border to glow like the Start button at the bottom left corner of your screen in Windows 7. The start button glows on mouseover and focus. To my knowledge I believe they just use two images, but how did they use the animation for "glow effect"? [code]
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