Borderless Form & Aero

[hypez]

Hello,

Searched for hours for an answer to this to no avail. So thought i'd give this forum a shot.

My
FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None

I'm using this code to then create an aero blur. I have managed to create, at the top of my borderless form, my own title bar with AERO blurring. To do this, i've put a background to my form, a .PNG, which has a strip at the top cut out (transparent png)

  
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form6
    <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
    Private Structure DWM_BLURBEHIND


        Public dwFlags As Integer
        Public fEnable As Boolean
        Public hRgnBlur As IntPtr
        Public fTransitionOnMaximized As Boolean
    End Structure
    Private Const DWM_BB_ENABLE As Integer = &H1
    Private Const DWM_BB_BLURREGION As Integer = &H2
    Private Const DWM_BB_TRANSITIONONMAXIMIZED As Integer = &H4
    <DllImport("dwmapi.dll", PreserveSig:=False)> _
    Private Shared Sub DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByRef pBlurBehind As DWM_BLURBEHIND)
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)


        MyBase.OnLoad(e)
        'TextBox1.UseCompatibleTextRendering = True


        ''#Set the form's border style to None  
        Me.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None
        ''#Whatever region that you fill with black will become the glassy region   
        ''# (in this example, the entire form becomes transparent)  
        Me.BackColor = Color.Black
        ''#Create and populate the blur-behind structure   
        Dim bb As DWM_BLURBEHIND
        bb.dwFlags = DWM_BB_ENABLE
        bb.fEnable = True
        bb.hRgnBlur = Nothing
        ''#Enable the blur-behind effect    
        DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(Me.Handle, bb)
    End Sub

    
End Class

Sorry if it's not in order, just pasted it ruffly.

It works. but my textboxs are all messed up as their background is now transparent.


Is there actually any way to do this? Possibly just have DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow create the blur on a certain part of the form and not make the WHOLE form transparent??

Thanks
Hypez.