I am asking how to make a glass effect for winform in windows 8.
I just saw some methods which call the DWM to make this before windows 8. But it seems DWM was no longer valid in windows 8. So is there any other methods to make glass effect winform in windows 8?
Thanks!
Windows 8 does not provide support for the glass effect of Vista/7. If you want to make your windows display with glass effect, you need to code it yourself, or use one of the 3rd party solutions that do so.
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Hi I got a lil problem with a mobile handheld computer (Motorola MC9200) running Windows CE 7.0.
Within the browser (Internet Explorer + software like Naurtech CETerm) there is some font-smoothing or cleartype. Problem about that is that , and font with a css style of font-weight 900 for example look exactly the same as normal font. So you can't tell the difference.
Another problem would be the panning. I'm running a fullscreen web application and the user shouldn't be able to pan the whole screen 1 cm out. Funny thing is while the user is panning the whole picture the font-smoothing/cleartype is disabled and you can tell the difference between font-weights.
Anyone no a solution to that? I already searched the registry for cleartype and font but didn't find anything helpful. I don't have other WinCE 7.0 devices so I don't know if that problem is WinCE 7.0 related or related to the device.
I don't have a device at hand, but WEC 7.0 offers the SystemParametersInfo function that sounds a bit like what you're after.
Call it with uiAction set to SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING to disable ClearType on a system-wide basis:
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, FALSE, NULL, SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
Earlier versions of Windows CE had a registry setting to allow OEM's to disable ClearType, but I've been unable to locate this setting in WEC 7.0, so my guess is it's no longer supported and ClearType is always enabled by default.
I am developing a custom shell for a windows 8 tablet. I would like to intercept the tablets windows button press event. I am not sure how to do so. I am currently working in c#, but would be willing to consider any possible solutions. I have tried autohotkey, but the tablet button must not be the same as the keyboard windows key. Any suggestions?
I vaguely remember reading that Windows 8 requires running with admin rights. Could you try that?
I've used the following code on Windows Phone 7 and 8 to disable user idle detection when my App is displaying data to the user and they are unlikely to interact with the screen e.g. A recipe App where the screen needs to stay on:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.shell.phoneapplicationservice.useridledetectionmode(v=vs.92).aspx
Does anyone know if there is an analogue of this available for Windows 8 applications? My tablet app has the same requirement to disable the screen turning off. I haven't managed to find anything :-(
Many thanks,
Jon
You should use the DisplayRequest class, specifically DisplayRequest.RequestActive for this purpose. You must also remember to call DisplayRequest.RequestRelease once you are done to allow the display to sleep, for example, if you are not viewing a recipe, or you are in a menu screen, etc.
I am using GetRandomRgn() API to get the visible region of the window.
This API works fine in Windows Xp and Windows 7 but same API is not giving the same
result in Windows 8.
Is there is any other function available in windows 8 to give me the same result?
Please do reply.
Best Regards,
Sharad
Enable Desktop Composition on Windows 7 and you'll see that Windows 7 and Windows 8 behave the same. The behavior of GetRandomRgn is affected by desktop composition. When composition is enabled, all windows are logically treated as fully visible (since they render to an offscreen buffer). The available of features like Flip3D shows that the logically visible portion of a region is not the same as its physically visible region.
It's a bit annoying having to deploy to a device everytime to test multitouch functionality so I was just wondering if it's possible to fake the second finger. Obviously plugging in two mouse's doesn't help...
There's no out of the box support for this at the moment, but there are some options you can look into for this.
Jonas Follesø's World of Software - Simulating multitouch on the Windows Phone 7 Emulator
Windows MultiPoint Mouse Software Development Kit
Multi-Touch Vista
In addition to the links from Mick N, you may also want to have a look at the MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7. As this includes support for simulating multiple touches with the emulator and a single mouse while testing.