aero-glass

Using the undocumented SetWindowCompositionAttribute API on Windows 10, it's possible to enable glass for a window. The glass is white or clear, as seen in this screenshot: However, the Windows 10 Start menu and the notification center, which both also uses glass, both blend with the accent colour, like so: How does it do it? Investigations The accent colour in the following examples is a light purple - here's a screenshot from the Settings app: The AccentPolicy structure defined in this example code has accent state, flags and gradient color fields: AccentPolicy = packed record AccentState:

Using GDI+ to draw various colors: brush = new SolidBrush(color); graphics.FillRectangle(brush, x, y, width, height); You'll notice that no opaque color shows properly on glass: How do i draw solid colors on glass? You'll also notice that a fully opaque color is handled differently depending on what color it is: opaque black: fully transparent opaque color: partially transparent opaque white: fully opaque Can anyone point me to the documentation on the desktop compositor that explains how different colors are handled? Update 3 You'll also notice that FillRectangle behaves differently than

I am looking for good resources for learning to use the Win32/GDI APIs or whatever supercedes it to draw and paint directly using the Win32 API to a glass form. While I am using Delphi, I tagged this as Delphi or Visual C++. Any code samples and articles that you can find would be appreciated. MSDN articles do not seem to be written about this. As a goal, let's imagine you want to either: (a) Reproduce what Google Chrome does (tabs as part of the glass frame) (b) Reproduce what MS Office 2010 does (save button on the glass frame, referred to in MFC for VS 2010, as "Quick Access Toolbar" (see