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This section describes the following API elements used with Visual Styles.
| Topic | Contents |
|---|---|
| BeginBufferedAnimation | Begins a buffered animation operation. The animation consists of a cross-fade between the contents of two buffers over a specified period of time. |
| BeginBufferedPaint | Begins a buffered paint operation. |
| BeginPanningFeedback | Notifies the system to send feedback about a target window affected by panning gestures. |
| BufferedPaintClear | Clears a specified rectangle in the buffer to ARGB = {0,0,0,0}. |
| BufferedPaintInit | Initialize buffered painting for the current thread. |
| BufferedPaintRenderAnimation | Paints the next frame of a buffered paint animation. |
| BufferedPaintSetAlpha | 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). |
| BufferedPaintStopAllAnimations | Stops all buffered animations for the given window. |
| BufferedPaintUnInit | Closes down buffered painting for the current thread. Called once for each call to BufferedPaintInit after calls to BeginBufferedPaint are no longer needed. |
| CloseThemeData | Closes the theme data handle. |
| DrawThemeBackground | Draws the border and fill defined by the visual style for the specified control part. |
| DrawThemeBackgroundEx | Draws the background image defined by the visual style for the specified control part. |
| DrawThemeEdge | Draws one or more edges defined by the visual style of a rectangle. |
| DrawThemeIcon | Draws an image from an image list with the icon effect defined by the visual style. |
| DrawThemeParentBackground | Draws the part of a parent control that is covered by a partially-transparent or alpha-blended child control. |
| DrawThemeParentBackgroundEx | 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. |
| DrawThemeText | Draws text using the color and font defined by the visual style. |
| DrawThemeTextEx | Draws text using the color and font defined by the visual style. Extends DrawThemeText by allowing additional text format options. |
| EnableThemeDialogTexture | Enables or disables the visual style of a dialog window's background. |
| EnableTheming | Enables or disables visual styles for the current user in the current and later sessions. |
| EndBufferedAnimation | Renders the first frame of a buffered animation operation and starts the animation timer. |
| EndBufferedPaint | Completes a buffered paint operation and frees the associated buffered paint handle. |
| EndPanningFeedback | Terminates any existing animation that was in process or set up by BeginPanningFeedback and UpdatePanningFeedback. |
| GetBufferedPaintBits | Retrieves a pointer to the buffer bitmap if the buffer is a device-independent bitmap (DIB). |
| GetBufferedPaintDC | Gets the paint DC. This is the same value retrieved by BeginBufferedPaint. |
| GetBufferedPaintTargetDC | Retrieves the target DC. |
| GetBufferedPaintTargetRect | Retrieves the target rectangle specified by BeginBufferedPaint. |
| GetCurrentThemeName | Retrieves the name of the current visual style, and optionally retrieves the color scheme name and size name. |
| GetThemeAppProperties | Retrieves the property flags that control how visual styles are applied in the current application. |
| GetThemeBackgroundContentRect | Retrieves the size of the content area for the background defined by the visual style. |
| GetThemeBackgroundExtent | Calculates the size and location of the background, defined by the visual style, given the content area. |
| GetThemeBackgroundRegion | Computes the region for a regular or partially transparent background that is bounded by a specified rectangle. |
| GetThemeBitmap | Retrieves the bitmap associated with a particular theme, part, state, and property. |
| GetThemeBool | Retrieves the value of a BOOL property from the SysMetrics section of theme data. |
| GetThemeColor | Retrieves the value of a color property. |
| GetThemeDocumentationProperty | Retrieves the value for a theme property from the documentation section of the specified theme file. |
| GetThemeEnumValue | Retrieves the value of an enumerated type property. |
| GetThemeFilename | Retrieves the value of a filename property. |
| GetThemeFont | Retrieves the value of a font property. |
| GetThemeInt | Retrieves the value of an int property. |
| GetThemeIntList | Retrieves a list of int data from a visual style. |
| GetThemeMargins | Retrieves the value of a MARGINS property. |
| GetThemeMetric | Retrieves the value of a metric property. |
| GetThemePartSize | Calculates the original size of the part defined by a visual style. |
| GetThemePosition | Retrieves the value of a position property. |
| GetThemePropertyOrigin | Retrieves the location of the theme property definition for a property. |
| GetThemeRect | Retrieves the value of a RECT property. |
| GetThemeStream | Retrieves a data stream corresponding to a specified theme, starting from a specified part, state, and property. |
| GetThemeString | Retrieves the value of a string property. |
| GetThemeSysBool | Retrieves the Boolean value of a system metric. |
| GetThemeSysColor | Retrieves the value of a system color. |
| GetThemeSysColorBrush | Retrieves a system color brush. |
| GetThemeSysFont | Retrieves the LOGFONT of a system font. |
| GetThemeSysInt | Retrieves the value of a system int. |
| GetThemeSysSize | Retrieves the value of a system size metric from theme data. |
| GetThemeSysString | Retrieves the value of a system string. |
| GetThemeTextExtent | Calculates the size and location of the specified text when rendered in the visual style font. |
| GetThemeTextMetrics | Retrieves information about the font specified by a visual style for a particular part. |
| GetThemeTransitionDuration | Gets the duration for the specified transition. |
| GetWindowTheme | Retrieves a theme handle to a window that has visual styles applied. |
| HitTestThemeBackground | Retrieves a hit test code for a point in the background specified by a visual style. |
| IsAppThemed | Reports whether the current application's user interface displays using visual styles. |
| IsCompositionActive | Determines whether Desktop Window Manager (DWM) composition effects are available to the theme. |
| IsThemeActive | Tests if a visual style for the current application is active. |
| IsThemeBackgroundPartiallyTransparent | Retrieves whether the background specified by the visual style has transparent pieces or alpha-blended pieces. |
| IsThemeDialogTextureEnabled | Reports whether a specified dialog window supports background texturing. |
| IsThemePartDefined | Retrieves whether a visual style has defined parameters for the specified part and state. |
| OpenThemeData | Opens the theme data for a window and its associated class. |
| OpenThemeDataEx | Opens the theme data associated with a window for specified theme classes. |
| SetThemeAppProperties | Sets the flags that determine how visual styles are implemented in the calling application. |
| SetWindowTheme | Causes a window to use a different set of visual style information than its class normally uses. |
| SetWindowThemeAttribute | Sets attributes to control how visual styles are applied to a specified window. |
| SetWindowThemeNonClientAttributes | Sets non-client attributes to control how visual styles are applied to a specified window. |
| UpdatePanningFeedback | Updates clients about state of a window resulting from a panning gesture. This function can only be called after a BeginPanningFeedback call. |
| Topic | Contents |
|---|---|
| BP_ANIMATIONPARAMS | Defines animation parameters for the BP_PAINTPARAMS structure used by BeginBufferedPaint. |
| BP_PAINTPARAMS | Defines paint operation parameters for BeginBufferedPaint. |
| DTBGOPTS | Defines the options for the DrawThemeBackgroundEx function. |
| DTTOPTS | Defines the options for the DrawThemeTextEx function. |
| INTLIST | Contains an array or list of int data items from a visual style. |
| MARGINS | Returned by the GetThemeMargins function to define the margins of windows that have visual styles applied. |
| WTA_OPTIONS | Defines options that are used to set window visual style attributes. |
| Topic | Contents |
|---|---|
| PROPERTYORIGIN | Returned by GetThemePropertyOrigin to specify where a property was found. |
| THEMESIZE | Identifies the size of the visual style part to retrieve. |
| TM_PROPS | Not currently supported. |
| WINDOWTHEMEATTRIBUTETYPE | Specifies the type of visual style attribute to set on a window. |
| Topic | Contents |
|---|---|
| Aero Style Classes, Parts, and States | Describes the classes, parts, and states supported by the Aero theme, which defines the visual styles that Windows Vista uses by default |
| Theme File Format | Discusses the format of Theme (.theme) files. |
| Format Values | Lists the values that are used with the dwTextFlags parameter of the DrawThemeText and GetThemeTextExtent functions. |
| Hit Test Options | Lists the option values that are used with the dwOptions parameter of the HitTestThemeBackground function. |
| Hit Test Return Values | Lists the hit test code values that are returned in the pwHitTestCode parameter of the HitTestThemeBackground function. |
| Parts and States | Describes the parts and states that you use to change the appearance of controls when visual styles are enabled. |
| Property Identifiers | Contains information about defined values that are used to retrieve properties of visual styles. |