how to add glass effect to a win forms in vb.net or c# I looked a lot of examples like using e.graphics to make a square with the win form dimension and others are done really good without any e.graphics trick. But my problem is that I didn't look any example that uses windows controls like buttons, labels, dropdowns, etc on a glass effect win form.
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I have enabled the glass effect to Windows Forms in Visual Basic 2010. When I drop controls, they are not displaying well as usual. Whats is wrong with this?Image:
Texts are displaying only front of Black color.
I would like to know if it possible to create an effect of magnifying glass for the picturebox, so I could see the other controls behind the picturebox which make them looks like a glass?
View 7 Repliesis 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.
View 4 RepliesI am currently painting a light blue, partly transparent overlay over owner-drawn objects to indicate certain state. It's OK but I thought that it would be even nicer if I could at some sort of glass effect to further establish the idea that the particular object has "something" overlaid over the top of it.
I thought that some glass streaks, for example, in addition to the blue transparency would lend a nice effect.I've Googled around for GDI+ (and others) algorithms to do simple things painting like this but have come up empty. I prefer .NET but can figure out the painting from pseudo-code on up.
Sorry, shoul've also specified that I need to target WinXP and using .NET version 2.0 - So unable to use WPF or Vista/Win7 goodies.
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
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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).
how to extend glass to program that not using glass like Zune software V 1.
View 2 RepliesI was recently asked a multiple choice question: According to the sample code, which one of the following statements has NO effect and should be moved to another line to accomplish its purpose?
dim tb as New TextBox
g_row as Integer = 0
tb.Text = CType(g_row, String)
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are there any tutorials, or, is there simple code to be used to control Aeroglass in VB.NET? I would like to know how to play with various effects and, if possible, how to do the Aeroglass effects done in Paint.NET 3.5. (The inside of the topbar is not straight.
View 1 RepliesI decided to have a play around with the Windows API Code Pack and so far it has had some very interesting things. Something which I like in particular is AeroGlass. I have created a project to mess around with it to see how it works etc. and I am having some difficulties with the tranparency. If I put a textbox on the form for example, it displays fine. The text however is barely readable unless the form is over a dark background. The solution seemed obvious. Change the transparency key. However, there wasn't one set. Adding one stops the glass effect from working.
View 2 RepliesI have a base form and I inherit other forms from it. However, if i go back and change say the size of the base form, I don't see those changes take effect in my inherited forms. Does anyone know why that is? Is there a solution to this issue?So as far as design is goes, what exactly gets inherited by other forms?
View 9 RepliesI am trying to produce the effect of a projector screen (side on) sliding downwards and want to achieve this by the screen (narrow rectangle) changing its height, waiting, changing its height again so it looks like its sliding.I have formed this code for the button but for the life of my cannot work out why it won't work. I am using Visual Studio 2008.
Dim Sleep As Integer = 500
Threading.Thread.Sleep(Sleep)
RectangleShape1.Height = 60
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Is there any way to create a function of magnifying glass when cursor hover on the image (Picturebox)?I have a picturebox in a panel that I declared. When user hover the cursor on the image it call the function of magnifying glass.
View 14 RepliesHow do I get controls to work right when they are on glass?
I am trying to do like IE and extend to a textbox for address bar but the text becomes transparent, how do I do it?
Is using any control on Aero glass possible? If not, is using buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons and some other common controls possible?
View 3 RepliesCan I make a tabcontrol with Aero Glass or another effect?
View 8 RepliesHow do you make a glass form in VB.NET? Like the vista/win7 effect, but extended into the form. I saw a tutorial for C#, but can't find one for VB.NET
View 6 RepliesI can't figure out how it is possible to change the color for aero glass (which is blue by default).I want to change it to yellow (or brown) if the battery level (only for laptops of course) is low, to red when its critical. I have read a lot and was able to read the color (registry and api) and I was able to get notified when the color changes (wndproc) but there is no api call to set the color. I am able to set the registry key. That works, but requires a reboot, which is (in my case) not a solution. I have tried to simulate the wndproc message as broadcast, no result...What does the control panel applet do? If I change the color there it will be instantly applied, even the setting is not saved to the registry (which will be the best solution for my case). Programming language is vb9, vista is required by the application itself, so no other checks are required.
View 8 RepliesI 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?
How can I create a form with no title bar, but still have a glass border just like the Volume, Power Options, or Network windows have when you click on their icons in the system tray.[code]...
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to have Aero Glass look in my forms in VB.NET 2010 app with DWM API, but as function call suggests, it extends look of Frame to the client area, and if form has no border, nothing will happen and form will become invisible. So, can I get Aero glass in a form without any border.... ??
View 1 RepliesI've got an app that I'm writing that will have TextBoxes and Buttons on a glass form, much like what you'd see in Windows Explorer. I'm wondering how can I get the Textboxes' text to render properly on the glass? The text looks all messed up. I've tried a number of different ideas, but to avail.
View 4 RepliesThis is my follow up question to my earlier topic about Memory management.Now I believe I have good code that gets me the results I want. The main application form has a Label field which tells the user to wait with message "Getting the data from the AD Database......". I am noticing that the "Wait" message is up for too long. However, once I get the data, it is processed fast and loaded into the DataGridView.
I would like the user to have a better feedback than the stardard "Wait" cursor. Is there a better way to show how much data (records) were fetched during the data aquisition phase and present it to the user? This would allow the user to guess how much longer he has to wait to complete the data fetching.
I am having a problem with the aero glass effect on the form. I have successfully spread the glass to the background of the form, but now the buttons ext ect. look like this (I have tried EVERYTHING on this page with no success):url...[code]
View 1 RepliesI 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
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I have a Vista Glass form using dwmapi.dll. I have a problem, which is whenever I put the form over a white color, the text becomes very difficult to read, as it is white as well. But if I put it over a black or darker color you can read it fine. I want the text color on my form to be able to change when the form is moved over a certain color. No, I'm not trying to make a virus / automater...
View 2 RepliesIf GlassRadioButton.Checked = True Then
well here's where im stuck, I need Glass to get added to a string or something, so it can be called in myAddNew
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"VALUES"Dim myValue As Integer ' Base value of frames Dim myValue1 As Integer ' Glass or plastic value Dim myValue2 As Integer ' Scratch Coating value Dim myValue3 As Integer ' UV value Dim totalCost As Integer ' Total value Dim deposit As Integer ' Deposit value, 20% of total myValue = 50 'Base value of frames, always 50 If GlassRadioButton.Checked
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My program can detect when Aero is present, but it has trouble when the user is in Aero Basic because it doesn't use the transparency or glass look. I am wondering if there is a call to the dwmapi that can tell me if the computer is using Aero Basic.
View 5 RepliesRendering Controls with Black Text on Glass in Visual Basic
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