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NoelC: does console display "Update theme settings: 0x0" ?

because you don't have correct symbols for dwm.exe.

AERO GLASS for Win8.1 Beta 3 We're still closer and closer to RC and final, so here is another beta to test. Changes: * applied affine transformation to glass safety zone and blur effect rendering * registry settings is loaded even when AppInit_DLLs loading is not used * CustomThemeResource settings is read from registry again (but custom atlas is not applied to already visible windows - they need to be refreshed manually) * fixed blur on regions consisting of more than 4 rectangles And yes, you still need to manually download symbols for udwm.dll, dwmcore.dll and dwm.exe else it won't work. http://glass8.berlios.de

It is the same problem as with multiple displays, currently I don't apply any transformation to the image (except of translation) and that's why it can cause problems.

As I remember correctly, you cannot remove background color on frame titles. They are rendered very simply using GDI: CreateBitmap -> FillRect -> DrawText. But I'm not sure whether brush color used for FillRect can be different from frame color, I didn't study it so much.

Watermark is going to replace the message box to be less noisy.

I found that this bug can appear if you use RoundRectRadius settings to have rounded corners on windows.

Could you provide your paypal address?

It is easy to fix but I was lazy to do matrix multiplication to compute the transformation

Tomorrow, when I return home, I will build private test build which will provide more verbose log to find out the problem. It is surely a bug which is not intended. However, It's not needed to be fixed because it will be rewritten later to load resource from theme.

paul70: yes, I'm aware that rotated screen can be problem. DWM normally uses transformation matrix which is applied to each rendered region. I currently apply only translation part of the matrix, so any rotation, scaling etc. can end up in incorrect rendering. I guess it is the same reason why different order of multiple displays is the problem too.

Do you use default system theme or some custom?

hfb: don't you have BlurDeviation set to zero? There is no other way to achieve transparency without blur.

AERO GLASS for Win8.1 Beta 2 After some time, I'm presenting you next beta version of Aero Glass for Win8.1 intended for hunting glitches. There is not much changes but they are big: - previous beta 1 disabled occlusion to correctly render blur regions. It caused that it rendered even non-visible (covered) window regions resulting in lower performance and higher power consumption - this part has been completely reimplemented (because needed code from Win8 is not already present) and now it works as intended - invisible regions are not rendered at all - glass safety zone fixes - fixes for multiple monitors/devices/render targets Current roadmap: - fix bugs/glitches created during occlusion reimplementation - reimplement missing features from Win8 version (e.g. loading custom atlas file from registry settings etc.) - read glow and reflection image from atlas resource (and merge this into Win8 version) - build 32-bit version - create launcher not to be dependent on AppInit_DLLs - fix last visible bugs, optimize performance and implement proper error handling - release final version Enjoy! But remember that this is still only beta build not intended for daily usage! http://glass8.berlios.de/win81.html

Please, could you stop using quotations on the recent posts? It makes this topic hardly readable...

This has nothing to do with license. If these DLLs are present in AG folder then DWM process can accidentally load these libraries instead of those in System32 directory.

It is very wrong idea to copy any system libraries (except of symsrv.dll and dbghelp.dll) into Aero Glass folder because it can load wrong DLL version later which results in bad behaviour from crashes to whole OS failure.

DoubleSAnimations: it depends how you install AeroGlass into your system. If you use AppInitDlls way, then yes, it must be disabled.

If I manage to do it, reflection image will be part of the atlas file, so you will be able to change either by theme modification or by using custom atlas file. But it's the future task, now I need to finalize glass rendering with the occlusion enabled.

There is only one machine code in the popup + it is written into the debug.log file.

This is caused by some 3rd party application which disables transparency on taskbar. Nothing to do in my utility.

thx, it should work now

It does not depend - i just need to compare one small thing with 64-bit build.

so could you send me c:\windows\system32\udwm.dll ? via PM, thanks.

does anybody here have 32-bit version of Win8.1 ?