Glass CMD for Windows Vista/Seven

[MilesAhead]

Link Please

I modified the 2 apps that use this dialog to match. They are hotkey popup windows, not meant to be open all the time, so theme clash really isn't an issue.

There's a screen shot for each on the download page

[komalo]

as soon as you apply glass, the controls on it are like disabled. You can get around this by making a child window with disabled labels that are underlying the controls that shall be usable.

what you are talking about is a LayeredWindow with UpdateLayeredWindow applied on xp or vista

[DizzyDaft]

wow liking love the glass on cmd

but i have 1 question how can i remove the icon from task bar i wont it to run permanently hiden in the background

any ideas 'would be great'

thanx

and good work

[RomanK]

what you are talking about is a LayeredWindow with UpdateLayeredWindow applied on xp or vista

I'm not sure. I don't use anything with "Layered" when I use glass.

I make a normal GUI where I don't put any controls and the apply glass,

then I make a child UI with the controls which has $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_MDICHILD + $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW as styles and extended styles.

After that apply the VisibleControls-function to I that con be found somewhere in this forum (I forgot who made it and I'm too lazy to look right now)

But in order to be able to use the controls, they need to be on top of a disabled label, which looks very nice when they're framed:

[MilesAhead]

what you are talking about is a LayeredWindow with UpdateLayeredWindow applied on xp or vista

Hmmmmm what I've been trying to figure out is how to extend the glass from the frame into the client area using DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea() on a form that does not have a black background. I tried laying a Graphic on top of the form with the background color as it appears to the user, and letting the actual form be black. It looks near perfect, but even though I add controls on after the graphic, clicks don't work. Apparently because the Graphic is now the parent control instead of the form. I tried making a Group with no text. It didn't change color when I set the background color.

Seems like the fix should be inside whatever function calls DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea() so that only the extended area is painted black. How to do it and have everything work I have no idea.

If I was trying to do the same thing in Delphi I would probably just lay a Panel on the form to "fake" the background color while still letting the clicks propagate. I haven't found a Panel object yet for AutoIt.

Edited May 15, 2009 by MilesAhead

[ProgAndy]

You could try an other way: create black disabled labels the same size as the extended frame (or better use the color from DwmGetColorizationColor)

Can' t test since i have no vista and Win7 won't run in my VM

Edited May 15, 2009 by ProgAndy

[RomanK]

Another idea...

I don't know about the Colorization thing and nothing about PNG use in Au3.

But this should work:

Make a transparent window with that PNG and GDI+ stuff, then create a semi-transparent coloured label which has the colour from DwmGetColorizationColor.

Then apply DwmEnableBlurBehindwindow.

regards,

Roman

[MilesAhead]

Thanks for the suggestions. I try 'em out.

[MilesAhead]

You could try an other way: create black disabled labels the same size as the extended frame (or better use the color from DwmGetColorizationColor)

Can' t test since i have no vista and Win7 won't run in my VM

Thanks. That worked out well. Not much hassle to create 4 labels to make a border and set the background color to black.

[ken82m]

Funny I just downloaded this from Deviant lastnight lol

Well now I can thank you properly.

Nice work

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I heard a few different methods, but if someone could post some example code on getting that glass effect on a GUI I'd appreciate it

Thanks,

Kenny

Edited May 16, 2009 by ken82m

[MilesAhead]

I added a hack to the James Brooks _Vista_ApplyGlassArea() to mask off the border with black labels as ProgAndy suggested. I posted it on that thread since it's JB's function I hacked.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...mp;#entry683457

[komalo]

wow liking love the glass on cmd

but i have 1 question how can i remove the icon from task bar i wont it to run permanently hiden in the background

any ideas 'would be great'

thanx

and good work

thanks , it will be added later

[komalo]

Funny I just downloaded this from Deviant lastnight lol

Well now I can thank you properly.

Nice work

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I heard a few different methods, but if someone could post some example code on getting that glass effect on a GUI I'd appreciate it

Thanks,

Kenny

thanks

you can check this : Real Vista Aero Glass by JamesBrooks

[komalo]

Thanks. That worked out well. Not much hassle to create 4 labels to make a border and set the background color to black.

I added a hack to the James Brooks _Vista_ApplyGlassArea() to mask off the border with black labels as ProgAndy suggested. I posted it on that thread since it's JB's function I hacked. smile.gif

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...mp;#entry683457

nice work man

but why do you create 4 labels in order to enable aero glass on all non-client area , you can make one label with GUICtrlSetResizing , or you are trying to enable it on borders only ?

Edited May 17, 2009 by komalo

[MilesAhead]

nice work man

but why do you create 4 labels in order to enable aero glass on all non-client area , you can make one label with GUICtrlSetResizing , or you are trying to enable it on borders only ?

Yes. Basically It's just a routine to do extended glass border and have it come out right even if the background color isn't black. The routine sets the background color with whatever is passed in and uses the labels to mask the border with black. That way I can pass in any color for the form background and the glass border will still work.

Here's my color pick dlg set to sky blue using the same routine

[wraithdu]

Wouldn't it be easier to let the form background be black, then create one disabled label in your color of choice for your blue background?

EDIT - Actually, your method looks cleaner around the buttons because of the curved edges.

Edited May 17, 2009 by wraithdu

[curiousmaniac]

can you make explorer for windows seven transparent and but border, icon and text still solid? I really want to see it..

[MilesAhead]

Wouldn't it be easier to let the form background be black, then create one disabled label in your color of choice for your blue background?

EDIT - Actually, your method looks cleaner around the buttons because of the curved edges.

I didn't think of that. I tried Graphic and Tab. In Delphi I would have just used TPanel. Thing is though, for doing the border, the Vista glass setting routine would have to make assumptions about the inside of the rectangle instead of just worrying about the border Area array. This way works better for general purpose.

In fact I just added a wrinkle, instead of doing complicated stuff to let the user see the color, like your usual ColorPick Control, as soon as a color is selected, the dialog calls _Vista_ApplyGlassArea to preview the color in itself. Works really well. I just uploaded it if anyone is curious.

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

[komalo]

can you make explorer for windows seven transparent and but border, icon and text still solid? I really want to see it..

nope , i tried it but it didn't work

[James]

Looks like THIS by JamesBrooks

It is, just hooked.

I added a hack to the James Brooks _Vista_ApplyGlassArea() to mask off the border with black labels as ProgAndy suggested. I posted it on that thread since it's JB's function I hacked.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...mp;#entry683457

Thanks for the credit

thanks

you can check this : Real Vista Aero Glass by JamesBrooks

Already mentioned.