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c#winformsvisual-studio-2010dwmaero-glass
Sean
Sean

Reputation: 8731

How do I mimic the windows 7 UI?

I want to try and get the same look as Windows 7, with the aero glass dropping down just a little bit so that there can be a back button/address bar/ search box. Are there any tutorials on how to do this? I really need something simple, as I tried looking at a few other tutorials that try to explain how to use DWM with c# and I get totally lost.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 592

Answers (2)

ags131
ags131

Reputation: 23

Ive been using the glass_full class from the site below on WinForms and and it works great. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/146813-glass-form-dwmapidll-api/

I found a workaround for the black text issue with WinForms is to simply set backcolor and transparencyKey to a unused color. (To prevent clickthrough, make sure the red and blue values are different, I use 221,222,223 as my color values so it gracefully fallsback to grey without Aero)

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 3374

Done as an answer :)

Absolutely use WPF, WinForms is a nightmare for this sort of thing. Combine it with http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack and you're on to a winner.

Upvotes: 3

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