Author: quppa
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WM_DWMCOLORIZATIONCOLORCHANGED doesn’t give the Aero Glass base colour
From MSDN: WM_DWMCOLORIZATIONCOLORCHANGED Message Sent to all top-level windows when the colorization color has changed. Parameters wParam: Specifies the new colorization color. The color format is 0xAARRGGBB. lParam: Specifies whether the new color is blended with opacity. We receive this message when the Aero Glass colour changes. Unfortunately, the value contained in wParam is not…
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Office 15: per application border colours?
Winreview.ru’s latest Office 15 screenshots reveal application-specific border colours and drop-shadows. Word gets a dark blue border and shadow, Excel gets a green border and shadow, etc.: Microsoft in fact applied for a patent for per-window glass colourisation in late 2005 (‘Glass appearance window frame colorization’; discovered by Long Zheng in 2007). While there isn’t…
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Early Windows 8 UI Changes
Some early screenshots of Windows 8 have leaked recently, providing some clues as to what changes we might see in the user interface. User Account Pictures in the Taskbar Two screenshots show a 32×32 px (actually 28×32 px in the second screenshot) user account picture in the taskbar, located between the clock and ‘show desktop’…
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SetDPI Utility
View source on GitHub. Updated 2013-01-06. Ken Silverman’s PNG compression tool PNGOUT (complemented nicely by the free .NET frontend PNGGauntlet) can be remarkably effective at trimming the size of PNGs without altering the image described within. However, in its quest to remove anything non-essential, PNGOUT by default strips out the image’s DPI (in fact PPI)…
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Default Password for ‘myLGNet’ Wireless Networks
If ever you stumble across a wireless network with the name ‘myLGNet’ and have need to access it, the default password is ‘123456789a’. Of course, if the network uses only WEP for protection, it shouldn’t be hard to gain access even without that knowledge.
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Adventures in Password Security: AirAsia
When I created a user account at AirAsia’s website a little while ago, I was surprised to be told to choose a password with a minimum length of 16 characters*. I suspect that the average user’s password doesn’t approach that length (perhaps it would be better if it did). In any case, I duly typed…
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Pixel Measurements in WPF
Part of the beauty of the Windows Presentation Foundation is that it is designed to be resolution independent – that is, a WPF application should scale perfectly no matter the system’s DPI setting (excluding any bitmap graphics, which mightn’t look as nice as the vector parts). Instead of measuring things in pixels, WPF uses Device…
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Small Icon Size & DPI in Windows
The GetSystemMetrics function in Windows retrieves system metrics and configuration settings. One such metric is the recommended size (width and height) of ‘small icons’: Small icons typically appear in window captions and in small icon view. Another place where small icons show up is the notification area. MSDN contains a guide to Creating DPI-Aware Applications.…
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Windows 7-style Notification Area Applications in WPF: Recap & Sample
View source on GitHub. Over the past month I’ve looked at how to implement a Windows 7-style notification area application in WPF. I covered 6 different topics: Part 1: Removing Border Resize Part 2: Notify Icon Position – Windows 7 Part 3: Taskbar Position Part 4: Multiple Monitors & Working Area Part 5: Fixing Aero…