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Nikola Sivkov
Nikola Sivkov

Reputation: 2852

How to imitate Opera 10.50's custom UI?

For the past two days i have been looking around the net to find how Opera made their pre-alpha build with that UI. I mean its like built with windows shell here are some screenshots

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any tutorials , books or videos would be helpful

P.S. I also saw the win 7 SDK but its all C++ samples and i learn C#

Upvotes: 2

Views: 467

Answers (4)

Yevhen
Yevhen

Reputation: 1965

for c# there is http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3574

especcially look at GlassForm class it certainly allows that icons on the transparent filed in the status bar.

Upvotes: 2

TalkingCode
TalkingCode

Reputation: 13557

Maybe this will be helpful too:

Aero Glass inside a WPF Window

Upvotes: 1

abmv
abmv

Reputation: 7098

You need to custom build something like that using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a sample of what you can build is http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar-wpf/

Upvotes: 0

JustAPleb
JustAPleb

Reputation: 309

Have you checked this tutorial out?

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/FancyNetForms.aspx

It looks quite good...

Upvotes: 0

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