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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Questions about taskbar background transparency

charles.milette

Post subject: Re: Questions about taskbar background transparency

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:37 pm

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I found an even better way! #include <windows.h> #include "stdafx.h" TCHAR szClassName[] = TEXT("Blur"); LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch (msg) { case WM_NCHITTEST: wParam = DefWindowProc(hWnd, msg, wParam, lParam); if (wParam =...

Forum: Chitchat Topic: Questions about taskbar background transparency

charles.milette

Post subject: Re: Questions about taskbar background transparency

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:10 pm

Replies: 7
Views: 3134

When Classic Shell does it, or when you do it? When I do it. https://i.imgur.com/GAw5Vyp.gif For reference, here's my (quickly written) code: using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; public class TransparentTaskbar { static class Interop { [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError ...

Forum: Chitchat Topic: Questions about taskbar background transparency

charles.milette

Post subject: Re: Questions about taskbar background transparency

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:35 am

Replies: 7
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Ivo wrote:

On Windows 10 this is done by using the undocumented function SetWindowCompositionAttribute. You can control the glass color and opacity of any window.

As soon as the Windows 10 start menu is opened, the effect reverts back to normal. Do you know the way to prevent that?

Forum: Chitchat Topic: Questions about taskbar background transparency

charles.milette

Post subject: Re: Questions about taskbar background transparency

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 8:15 am

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Thanks! Will check that out.

Forum: Chitchat Topic: Questions about taskbar background transparency

charles.milette

Post subject: Questions about taskbar background transparency

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:35 am

Replies: 7
Views: 3134

As mentionned in this article , it is possible to make the taskbar's background fully transparent with Classic Shell. However, I feel that installing Classic Shell for this only feature overkill. I'd like to know how Classic Shell does this, so I can write a tiny program dedicated to do that (and ma...

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