transparent pages

Brummelchen · 9th April 2012, 13:27

is it possible to have transparent custom pages or a transparent section page?
(my research returns really poor results)

the aero plugin is nice but that can not be all!?

happy easter

Afrow UK · 9th April 2012, 13:39

It is possible but it depends what controls you want to use on your page. All standard Windows controls that use GDI will not draw correctly over Aero glass (as can be seen in the second picture on this page: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...to-Legacy-Wind). All controls must be custom drawn using double buffering to fix this problem (via a plug-in) which is a lot of work.

Edit: The Aero plug-in does this for the Next/Back/Cancel buttons (double buffering) if you wish to look at the code. The code doesn't work perfectly though - you still get the text appearing white sometimes when Windows draws the button text before the double buffering takes place.

Stu

Brummelchen · 9th April 2012, 16:53

i had a look into aero.cpp - can you extend dialog 105 -> control 1018 and 1044 for it?
or is it not usefull?

1044 is the main background, 1018 is white (default) here - also in section page.
if i set 1044 to 0,0,0,0 its not visible but any control or text on 1018 seems shiny.

compiling myself seems not possible with gcc.

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Brummelchen Major Dude Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 681	transparent pages is it possible to have transparent custom pages or a transparent section page? (my research returns really poor results) the aero plugin is nice but that can not be all!? happy easter

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9th April 2012, 13:39	#2
Afrow UK Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Surrey, England Posts: 8,434	It is possible but it depends what controls you want to use on your page. All standard Windows controls that use GDI will not draw correctly over Aero glass (as can be seen in the second picture on this page: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...to-Legacy-Wind). All controls must be custom drawn using double buffering to fix this problem (via a plug-in) which is a lot of work. Edit: The Aero plug-in does this for the Next/Back/Cancel buttons (double buffering) if you wish to look at the code. The code doesn't work perfectly though - you still get the text appearing white sometimes when Windows draws the button text before the double buffering takes place. Stu

9th April 2012, 16:53	#3
Brummelchen Major Dude Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 681	i had a look into aero.cpp - can you extend dialog 105 -> control 1018 and 1044 for it? or is it not usefull? 1044 is the main background, 1018 is white (default) here - also in section page. if i set 1044 to 0,0,0,0 its not visible but any control or text on 1018 seems shiny. compiling myself seems not possible with gcc.