Translucent effect of windows

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Translucent effect of windows

Overview

Enabling or disabling the transparent effect of windows

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Translucent effect of windows

Overview

Depending on the style of your applications, the border of your windows can be translucent: you will have the ability to see in transparency the windows found below or the background image of your Windows desktop.

In the popup menu of windows, "Disable the translucent effect for the window borders" allows the user disable the translucent effect on the windows.

Enabling or disabling the transparent effect of windows

Enabling the transparent effect on your windows

To enable the transparent effect on your windows:

Display the "Image" tab of the window description.
Specify the background image used by the window.
Clip the window ("Clip the window").
Select the Vista transparency and blur options. The margins that will be taken into account for the "blur" effect can be defined via the "Margins of client area" button.Select the Vista transparency and blur options. The margins that will be taken into account for the "blur" effect can be defined via the "Margins of blur area" button.

Note: In Vista, the "System transparency in Vista (Aero)" option allows the system to manage the transparency if the display mode used is the "Aero" mode. We recommend that you use this option if you are using the ActivVista and ActivVista Lite skin templates. This option is not recommended if you are using other skin templates.

Programming

To enable (or not) the translucent effect on the window borders, use DrawingStyle.

To disable the translucent effect of window borders, use WinDisableEffect.

Examples

The ActivVista and ActivVista Lite skin templates use the translucent effect of windows.