bigmuscle

hello! bigmuscle. I have already donated for you, and got the license, the next step is put the key into c:\aeroglass?, I put it in it but doesn't work! I restart the computer, but the problem still there, is there anything with my steps? thank you! debug.log should display reason why license was not loaded. If debug.log is not present in your aeroglass folder then you either don't have privileges to this folder or DLL is loaded from different folder.

If you already installed it then 1) you either enabled secure boot which blocks DLL loading or 2) you used some 3rd party tweaker which messed up your settings and deleted the DLL from loading list.

install it

slimrock: it means that your DWMGlass.dll has not been loaded properly (not due to some incompatibility but DLL is not loaded at all) surcix: no known problems. I have tried Window FX, version which was available in August, and it was working correctly.

By reading this topic before asking...

As many times said, you cannot achieve glow effect on ribbon-like windows just by editing theme resource (atlas), because these windows render the title on their own using DrawThemeText API function. This function respects the settings which is applied directly in your Windows theme.

Moshi: Nothing to do about it. Aero Glass is extension for DWM to draw glass effect everywhere requested. If some application disables glass somewhere, it won't be rendered there. Arr0w: sorry, I can't.

Arr0w: it is bug in your theme.

I have no problem to reset your old key and give you a new one for free, but at first I want to be sure that there is not some bug which could appear for other users too.

New partitions should not be the problem if the partition where you have installed your operating system is still on the same disk. What AG version do you use? Send me your debug.log (together with your machine code) and your paypal e-mail via PM, I will try to check what is wrong.

License does not depend on any software installation - it just depends on your HDD/SSD and CPU model.

It is the AppInit_DLLs limitation that the path name cannot contain spaces (because space is used as a delimiter to separate DLLs to be loaded). For this reason, my installer always use short 8.3 name of the folder.

copy dbghelp.dll and symsrv.dll to aero glass folder

Can anybody confirm taskbar problem? It does not seem like the bug in Aero Glass (if Windows on secondary display are blurred correctly) but rather that some 3rd party application simply disables the blur.

Reason is simple - you have imported custom swatches to the registry but don't have Aero Glass installed (custom swatches points to loaded DWMGlass.dll file). Because Aero Glass for Win8.1 does not contain the swatches, you should manually revert changes which you did.

Alpha 1 does not need them, but Alpha 2 needs them and that's why I wrote it in the instruction ... and any other alpha, beta, release candidate, non-finished version will need them too.

As stated, this version is for preview/testing which has been released as it is with many additional debug checks, logging etc. It has no sense to hide debug output in debug version...

yes, you are right - corners are really part of theme and not the part of reflection

NoelC: alpha version is supposed to be unstable. The current goal is to get feature-state similar to Win8 version, then I will refactor the code and move to the beta state where the stability and performance will be improved. Now I just need to know what features are still missing and if glass is correctly rendered on all places where it should be. to others: please, next time you want to test alpha version of some software then read properly the instructions:

Currently, it is as much intensive as possible - same as if you set 100% intensity in Win7.

I see a good reason not to allow full range 0 - 255. If user selects "Enable transparency" and e.g. red color, the slider should provide only such settings that will maintain transparency and red tint (i.e. very low alpha would make the color invisible and very high alpha would make transparency invisible).

The slider has been generating alpha value from 26 to 217 since Win7 and it has not been changed at all. Explorer process generates ColorBalance, AfterGlowBalance and BlurBalance from this alpha value and the computation depends whether transparency is enabled or not. Win8 generates values for full opacity only. My Aero Glass for Win8 changes the algorithm so it generates for transparency only. However, for several reasons, I do not want to modify this algorithm in Win8.1 (so it generates values for opacity only) and I use alpha value directly. I compared to Win7 and the slider does not set full transparency/opacity either - and I think it should be that way (if someone wants full transparency I don't see the reason to install AeroGlass). The only problem I see that we must respect the theme settings - ColorBalance and BlurBalance for inactive windows is 20% (or whatever the theme set) of active values. If you set ColorBalanceInactive or BlurBalanceInactive then it won't respect the theme settings but will take your values directly.

bzoley: problem is not HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key but HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT... Windows8RTMUser: http://glass8.berlios.de/guide.html

Hancoque: ah, my mistake - I forgot that dbghelp.dll and symsrv.dll needs to be present in the folder. The range of intensity slider is controlled by control panel itself and not by DWM. I don't plan to modify the control panel in Win8.1.

I'm simply saying that Aero Glass for Win8.1 is not dependent on shell32/themecpl so if you are getting error about these libraries you have not installed Aero Glass for Win8.1 but something different.