Enable Windows 10 Aero Glass a.k.a Blur Behind in our Delphi project
When Windows 8 arrived, it removed the Aero Glass feature from the operating system, some of us missed that feature and there are also some projects like http://www.glass8.eu/ which allows us to have Aero Glass back.
But now in Windows 10, this feature is back or kinda, because it remains as undocumented and only shown in the new Start Menu and some Immersive Applications like popups (Volume, Notification Center and other few ones).
However, we still need the old Aero Glass API before applying the Blur Behind “patch” in order to make it work again in our application.
In Delphi XE+ we just need to enable it using the Form’s GlassFrame property, but if you are using older Delphi versions, you needed to call the DWM API by yourself, something like the following:
But now in Windows 10, this feature is back or kinda, because it remains as undocumented and only shown in the new Start Menu and some Immersive Applications like popups (Volume, Notification Center and other few ones).
However, we still need the old Aero Glass API before applying the Blur Behind “patch” in order to make it work again in our application.
In Delphi XE+ we just need to enable it using the Form’s GlassFrame property, but if you are using older Delphi versions, you needed to call the DWM API by yourself, something like the following:
