Visual Styles Reference

Begins a buffered animation operation. The animation consists of a cross-fade between the contents of two buffers over a specified period of time.

Begins a buffered paint operation.

Notifies the system to send feedback about a target window affected by panning gestures.

Clears a specified rectangle in the buffer to ARGB = {0,0,0,0}.

Initialize buffered painting for the current thread.

Paints the next frame of a buffered paint animation.

Sets the alpha to a specified value in a given rectangle. The alpha controls the amount of transparency applied when blending with the buffer onto the destination target device context (DC).

Stops all buffered animations for the given window.

Closes down buffered painting for the current thread. Called once for each call to BufferedPaintInit after calls to BeginBufferedPaint are no longer needed.

Closes the theme data handle.

Draws the border and fill defined by the visual style for the specified control part.

Draws the background image defined by the visual style for the specified control part.

Draws one or more edges defined by the visual style of a rectangle.

Draws an image from an image list with the icon effect defined by the visual style.

Draws the part of a parent control that is covered by a partially-transparent or alpha-blended child control.

Used by partially-transparent or alpha-blended child controls to draw the part of their parent in front of which they appear. Sends a WM_ERASEBKGND message followed by a WM_PRINTCLIENT.

Draws text using the color and font defined by the visual style.

Draws text using the color and font defined by the visual style. Extends DrawThemeText by allowing additional text format options.

Enables or disables the visual style of a dialog window's background.

Enables or disables visual styles for the current user in the current and later sessions.

Renders the first frame of a buffered animation operation and starts the animation timer.

Completes a buffered paint operation and frees the associated buffered paint handle.

Terminates any existing animation that was in process or set up by BeginPanningFeedback and UpdatePanningFeedback.

Retrieves a pointer to the buffer bitmap if the buffer is a device-independent bitmap (DIB).

Gets the paint DC. This is the same value retrieved by BeginBufferedPaint.

Retrieves the target DC.

Retrieves the target rectangle specified by BeginBufferedPaint.

Retrieves the name of the current visual style, and optionally retrieves the color scheme name and size name.

Retrieves the property flags that control how visual styles are applied in the current application.

Retrieves the size of the content area for the background defined by the visual style.

Calculates the size and location of the background, defined by the visual style, given the content area.

Computes the region for a regular or partially transparent background that is bounded by a specified rectangle.

Retrieves the bitmap associated with a particular theme, part, state, and property.

Retrieves the value of a BOOL property from the SysMetrics section of theme data.

Retrieves the value of a color property.

Retrieves the value for a theme property from the documentation section of the specified theme file.

Retrieves the value of an enumerated type property.

Retrieves the value of a filename property.

Retrieves the value of a font property.

Retrieves the value of an int property.

Retrieves a list of int data from a visual style.

Retrieves the value of a MARGINS property.

Retrieves the value of a metric property.

Calculates the original size of the part defined by a visual style.

Retrieves the value of a position property.

Retrieves the location of the theme property definition for a property.

Retrieves the value of a RECT property.

Retrieves a data stream corresponding to a specified theme, starting from a specified part, state, and property.

Retrieves the value of a string property.

Retrieves the Boolean value of a system metric.

Retrieves the value of a system color.

Retrieves a system color brush.

Retrieves the LOGFONT of a system font.

Retrieves the value of a system int.

Retrieves the value of a system size metric from theme data.

Retrieves the value of a system string.

Calculates the size and location of the specified text when rendered in the visual style font.

Retrieves information about the font specified by a visual style for a particular part.

Gets the duration for the specified transition.

Retrieves a theme handle to a window that has visual styles applied.

Retrieves a hit test code for a point in the background specified by a visual style.

Reports whether the current application's user interface displays using visual styles.

Determines whether Desktop Window Manager (DWM) composition effects are available to the theme.

Tests if a visual style for the current application is active.

Retrieves whether the background specified by the visual style has transparent pieces or alpha-blended pieces.

Reports whether a specified dialog window supports background texturing.

Retrieves whether a visual style has defined parameters for the specified part and state.

Opens the theme data for a window and its associated class.

Opens the theme data associated with a window for specified theme classes.

Sets the flags that determine how visual styles are implemented in the calling application.

Causes a window to use a different set of visual style information than its class normally uses.

Sets attributes to control how visual styles are applied to a specified window.

Sets non-client attributes to control how visual styles are applied to a specified window.

Updates clients about state of a window resulting from a panning gesture. This function can only be called after a BeginPanningFeedback call.

Defines animation parameters for the BP_PAINTPARAMS structure used by BeginBufferedPaint.

Defines paint operation parameters for BeginBufferedPaint.

Defines the options for the DrawThemeBackgroundEx function.

Defines the options for the DrawThemeTextEx function.

Contains an array or list of int data items from a visual style.

Returned by the GetThemeMargins function to define the margins of windows that have visual styles applied.

Defines options that are used to set window visual style attributes.

Returned by GetThemePropertyOrigin to specify where a property was found.

Identifies the size of the visual style part to retrieve.

Not currently supported.

Specifies the type of visual style attribute to set on a window.

Describes the classes, parts, and states supported by the Aero theme, which defines the visual styles that Windows Vista uses by default

Discusses the format of Theme (.theme) files used in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Lists the values that are used with the dwTextFlags parameter of the DrawThemeText and GetThemeTextExtent functions.

Lists the option values that are used with the dwOptions parameter of the HitTestThemeBackground function.

Lists the hit test code values that are returned in the pwHitTestCode parameter of the HitTestThemeBackground function.

Describes the parts and states that you use to change the appearance of controls when visual styles are enabled.

Contains information about defined values that are used to retrieve properties of visual styles.