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August 29, 2008  
Subject: DWM features in Vista
Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.aero
Date: 6/16/2006 8:21:52 PM
From: Chris244@aol.com (Chris Hill)

I'm looking for more information about the DWM and associated
technologies. I looked in dwmapi.h and the SDK documentation for
those APIs, but I guess I was expecting more functionality than I am
seeing there. It seems like the features exposed are specifically
related to Microsoft needs (like glass) and Alt+Tab, but that there
isn't much beyond that in terms of generically producing information
for or consuming information from the DWM.

For example:
Can windowed Direct 3D and/or OpenGL rendering be composited with the
desktop using the alpha channel generated using those APIs?

Could I implement my own variant of Flip 3D or is that using private
APIs?

It may be that there just isn't any more functionality that is
publically exposed currently, but I wanted to verify that and make
sure I'm not looking in the wrong place.

Thanks,

Chris

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