translucenttb.cpp

#include <windows.h>




void SetWindowBlur(HWND hWnd)
{
	const HINSTANCE hModule = LoadLibrary(TEXT("user32.dll"));
	if (hModule)
	{
		struct ACCENTPOLICY
		{
			int nAccentState;
			int nFlags;
			int nColor;
			int nAnimationId;
		};
		struct WINCOMPATTRDATA
		{
			int nAttribute;
			PVOID pData;
			ULONG ulDataSize;
		};
		typedef BOOL(WINAPI*pSetWindowCompositionAttribute)(HWND, WINCOMPATTRDATA*);
		const pSetWindowCompositionAttribute SetWindowCompositionAttribute = (pSetWindowCompositionAttribute)GetProcAddress(hModule, "SetWindowCompositionAttribute");
		if (SetWindowCompositionAttribute)
		{
			ACCENTPOLICY policy = { 3, 0, 0, 0 }; // ACCENT_ENABLE_BLURBEHIND=3...
			WINCOMPATTRDATA data = { 19, &policy, sizeof(ACCENTPOLICY) }; // WCA_ACCENT_POLICY=19
			SetWindowCompositionAttribute(hWnd, &data);
		}
		FreeLibrary(hModule);
	}
}


int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPreInst, LPSTR pCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{

	HWND taskbar = FindWindow(L"Shell_TrayWnd", NULL);
	
	
	while (true) { 
		SetWindowBlur(taskbar); Sleep((DWORD)10);
	}

}

Waiting for the v2 :D

So just exactly how would i instal this code? Does it come in a executable version?

A lot has happened since this was published. Please see https://github.com/TranslucentTB/TranslucentTB/ for more.