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    Posted: 27 January 2012 at 4:24pm
Yeah Im afraid I gave up and just reverted to a non-skinned aero frame.
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Hi

I too have the same problem. When applying the CJ skin, it overrides Windows aero's drop shadow.

And I really can't see how this can be done using the skin itself since I can't see a way with Skin Builder to draw a frame larger than 5 pixels in width.
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Can you post a picture of the glow? Maybe it can be done with skins.
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thx for the reply - sorry - meant iTunes the app - not the skin.  Looks like Apple maually draws the glow using separate top level windows for each edge, which I was kinda hoping to avoid.
 
 
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If itunes skin has it then it must be the skin itself. Or do you mean the build in themes?
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Desperately trying to get the Windows 7 style frame window glow (drop shadow on all sides) to work with a skinned CJ main frame window.  All of the CJ skinned window examples I've seen show them without a glow.
Just using CS_DROPSHADOW is insufficient.
 
iTunes and Zune are examples of what im trying to achieve.
 
Have tried using a dwm approach such as this:
 
 
 HRESULT hr;
 int val = 2;
 hr = DwmSetWindowAttribute(this->m_hWnd, 2, &val, 4);
 if (!SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
  OUTPUT("Failed DWM SetAttribute\n");
 }
 MARGINS margins;
 margins.cxLeftWidth = -1;  // 8
 margins.cxRightWidth = -1;  // 8
 margins.cyBottomHeight = -1; // 20
 margins.cyTopHeight = -1;       // 27
 hr = DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea(this->m_hWnd, &margins);
 if (!SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
  OUTPUT("Failed DWM ExtendFame\n");
 }
 
 
But this does not work.  
 
Does anyone have a skinned app out there with the standard aero/win7/vista border glow?
 
thx!
 
 
 
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