[inighthawki]

vjott, on 23 February 2013 - 07:33 PM, said:

Removing the rounded borders is one of the best improvements in Windows 8, in my opinion. They never worked out well for me: looked hideous and aliased.

+1, rounded corners is the one part of the Vista/7 theme that I've always hated. I am glad they changed it, but as with everything, I think it should be configurable by the user. It's a lot of work though, because the theme's window corners would have to match the radius chosen at runtime. Not impossible to do, but probably not worth the work.

[MagicAndre1981]

vjott, on 23 February 2013 - 07:33 PM, said:

Removing the rounded borders is one of the best improvements in Windows 8, in my opinion.

yes, that's why I use the Win8 RP theme in Windows 7:

http://mare-m.devian...ows-7-312530311

[Jcee]

@ text glow not causing the crash; well if thats the case not sure what is, but when i install 1 version of that custom theme the crash isnt there, and another ver it is; i figured that text glow was a setting that enabled code; not just a transparent/opaque image that was loaded between the titlebar and the titlebar text; so i guess its something else then

[bigmuscle]

AERO GLASS for Win8 PREVIEW 4

So, another build is here.

What's new:
* begun work on Direct3D mode, it works, it should be much faster than Direct2D mode but it has a lot of glitches at this time. This mode use native DWM objects and shaders!!! (but Direct2D is still as default until it is complete)
* disabled alpha-blending of layered windows with alpha value of 254 - this should make rendering faster and avoid small transparency on all windows. This option has not been tested much so you can disable it using the registry settings.
* removed option to force bounding rectangle redraw
* fixed PDB file loading to generate useful crash reports
* added hot key Ctrl+Alt+F12 to quickly disable DWM hooking (e.g. in the case of black screen etc.)
* added new registry settings:

In Direct3D mode, you can use classic colorization settings under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM:
ColorizationBlurBalance, ColorizationAfterglow, ColorizationColor, ColorizationColorBalance

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM (no user-specific settings now!)
BypassLayeredWindowsRendering (DWORD) = when set to 0, the layered windows with 254 alpha are rendered in normal way.

UseDirect2DRendering (DWORD) = 0 = use Direct3D mode, 1 = use Direct2D mode

ColorizationXXXInactive (DWORD) = sets colorization settings for inactive windows (Direct3D mode only). In Direct2D you can use only ColorizationColorInactive (format is 0xAARRGGBB - alpha is ignored) to set the the color of inactive border.

Note: settings BlurDeviation has no effect in Direct3D mode.

http://leteckaposta.cz/332845979

[vjott]

Just tried the latest release. The screen blinks to black, briefly and then I see my desktop. Nothing happens, everything is still opaque. Here is my debug log:

Attached File(s)

•  debug.log.txt (8.64K)
  Number of downloads: 4

[ORelio]

Same result as vjott, screen goes black and CMD appears as usual, but the windows are still opaque
Nice work, though. Debug log file is attached below :

Attached File(s)

•  debug.log.txt (18.53K)
  Number of downloads: 1

[wango911]

I have the same issue, no transparency. Here's my debug.log.

Attached File(s)

•  debug.log.txt (8.97K)
  Number of downloads: 1

This post has been edited by wango911: 24 February 2013 - 04:32 PM

[kyolic]

Same here. Screen goes black for a second but no transparency after. All is same -just opaque.

Preview 3 works perfect though.

Attached File(s)

•  debug.log.txt (11.5K)
  Number of downloads: 1

This post has been edited by kyolic: 24 February 2013 - 04:43 PM

[AlexKven]

I am having the same problem as everyone else. Here is my debug file.

Attached File(s)

•  debug.txt (45.83K)
  Number of downloads: 1

[WindowsOS]

I have the same troubles with everyone else. Even selecting Direct2D mode does not activate transparency. Screenshot and debug log included.

Attached File(s)

•  Aero Glass Snip7.png (7.51K)
  Number of downloads: 42
•  debug.txt (243.2K)
  Number of downloads: 3

This post has been edited by WindowsOS: 24 February 2013 - 06:10 PM

[Tusticles]

No Aero applied with 0.4 and the lag is still there.

Attached File(s)

•  debug.rar (2.51K)
  Number of downloads: 0

[MagicAndre1981]

for me it works under VMware and it seams to be a bit faster, but there is still a delay before the Window gets the blur effect.

[Windows8RTMUser]

I cant download need mirror link

This post has been edited by Windows8RTMUser: 24 February 2013 - 11:53 PM

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Windows8RTMUser, on 24 February 2013 - 11:33 PM, said:

I cant download need mirror link

Apparently you cannot read the forum rules either:

http://www.msfn.org/...ated-must-read/

Especially this one:

11. Do not use CAPITALIZATIONS in the topic title or when participating in threads because they will not attract attention - instead it will annoy many of MSFN's members. Using unnecessary font formatting (i.e., bold font, increased font sizes, colored fonts, etc.) on the full body of posts is also discouraged.

[Windows8RTMUser]

Kelsenellenelvian, on 25 February 2013 - 12:04 AM, said:

Windows8RTMUser, on 24 February 2013 - 11:33 PM, said:

I cant download need mirror link

Apparently you cannot read the forum rules either:

http://www.msfn.org/...ated-must-read/

Especially this one:

11. Do not use CAPITALIZATIONS in the topic title or when participating in threads because they will not attract attention - instead it will annoy many of MSFN's members. Using unnecessary font formatting (i.e., bold font, increased font sizes, colored fonts, etc.) on the full body of posts is also discouraged.

sorry

[VolitationThorax]

Can you please use a proper file sharing site. There are so many and yet you use something so awful. Skydrive? Dropbox? Box? Google Drive? Mega? Mediafire?

Mirror: https://www.box.com/DWMHook04

This post has been edited by VolitationThorax: 25 February 2013 - 02:56 AM

[Windows8RTMUser]

it does not work anymore 0.4 but 0.3 does what happened

[bigmuscle]

MagicAndre1981, on 24 February 2013 - 10:58 PM, said:

for me it works under VMware and it seams to be a bit faster, but there is still a delay before the Window gets the blur effect.

yeah, this is done by the time which sets windows as layered. It runs with interval 500 ms thus new windows won't have transparency effect until the update routine is executed. This could be easily fixed by installing global windows hook which sets the window as layered during its creation. Problem is that this would require to have another service running (just because dwm.exe process does not run under logged user credentials).

For anyone, who has problem with 0.4, could you try set BypassLayeredWindowsRendering to zero whether it helps?

[adacom]

done that and slill it does not work - cmd window opens but gets no furher than

close this window to exit aero glass effect

i do not see the line

aero glass successfully loaded!

i note the flash screen refers to version 3 and the DWMLoader.exe file is the same size as in version 3 - that may all be correct - just mentioning it - no more

[S3RiOUS]

I get black screen and i am not allowed to attach any files yet but this is what my debug say:

[0x178C] Installing DWM hook...
[0x178C] DWM: 0xF0, error = 0
[0x178C] Module: C:\DWM\DWMHook.dll
[0x178C] RemoteDLLName: 0xDBC00000
[0x178C] WriteProcessMemory: 1, error 0
[0x178C] LoadLibrary: 0x652328AC
[0x178C] CreateRemoteThread: 0xF4 error 0

This post has been edited by S3RiOUS: 25 February 2013 - 06:47 AM