Determine if Aero is using

Question

I'm intend to use Aero glass in my program. It require use Black background to use this. If user is using Basic style, it will be very bad :( (although there's no error). How can I know if user is using Aero?

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What is big but light?

Answer 1

I don't think that I have encountered such a code. Sorry love

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Waleed El-Badry Teaching Assistant Faculty of Engineering Misr University for Science & Technology

Answer 2

I really don't know how to get even current Theme name!

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What is big but light?

Answer 3

This article here is in c# but uses a form of validation to check if Aero is enabled.
Try converting it using a free online c# to vb tool on the internet, like this one ...
http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/AeroGlassForms.aspx

Answer 4

You could use the Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled() function to determine if Aero is using.

Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled()

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969518(VS.85).aspx

Obtains a value that indicates whether Desktop Window Manager (DWM) composition is enabled. Applications can listen for composition state changes by handling the WM_DWMCOMPOSITIONCHANGED notification.

you could try this code and the sample DJ PIP post could works fine on my computer .

 If Not Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled() Then 
        MessageBox.Show("This demo requires Vista, with Aero enabled.") 
         
    End If 

Best wishes
Xingwei Hu

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Answer 5

Thanks Xingwei for this precious answer. It is one of the recurring questions for Vista developers.

Please accept my respect and regards.

Cheers

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Waleed El-Badry ,Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Engineering , Misr University for Science & Technology

Answer 6

You could use the Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled() function to determine if Aero is using.

Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled()

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969518(VS.85).aspx

Obtains a value that indicates whether Desktop Window Manager (DWM) composition is enabled. Applications can listen for composition state changes by handling the WM_DWMCOMPOSITIONCHANGED notification.

you could try this code and the sample DJ PIP post could works fine on my computer .

 If Not Win32.DwmIsCompositionEnabled() Then     MessageBox.Show("This demo requires Vista, with Aero enabled.")       End If 

Best wishes
Xingwei Hu

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I'm still studying it, I've learned a lot, Wonderful answer.