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Tabs not shown in Aero Glass

Submitted by Kasya on December 13, 2008 to Annoyance

The Multiple Documents Visual Style isn't Aero Glass when the parent window is

Fix It!

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Not fixed

Discussion (5 comments)

bearluke wrote on December 14, 2008, 11:12am

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this is a flaw in mIRC still uses obsolete APIs

Kasya wrote on December 14, 2008, 7:20pm

its like that in Ultra Edit 32 (i have the latest version which supports Vista) and other multiple child window applications. I think Microsoft forgot about it.

bearluke wrote on December 15, 2008, 8:25pm

An MDI Child window is not a top level Window so Aero effect is not applied by default

domstapleton wrote on December 16, 2008, 10:07am

I don't they CAN use Aero for MDI child windows. They're not like parent windows. Maybe someone with the necessary knowledge can correct me...

LittleTijn wrote on January 11, 2009, 2:36pm

This behavior is because the client area of a window (the content of the window) is NOT rendered by DWM (Aero) but by the program itself in GDI or GDI+ in software. Although it is ugly, it is not that easy (or at all) to fix...

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