AcrylicEverywhere

Upstream implementation of the DWMBlurGlass custom blur method.

In theory, the custom blur method is supported as low as Windows 10 1607, but it requires a lot of work, and the current code for the project supports as low as Windows 10 2004.

Remarks

The name is a bit inaccurate, it should be called TranslucentEverywhere. At first I was only going to implement Acrylic backdrop effect, but based on Maplespe's request, I added more backdrop effects, such as Aero, Mica, Blur, GlassReflection, etc.

This project is not directly usable for production purposes, but you can easily develop it.

To-Do

1. Fix glass reflection abnormal offset
2. Optimize aero effect recipe to make it more accurate
3. Optimize animated real-time blur backdrop in Windows 11 (not quite important)
4. Optimize program compatibility

Dependencies and References

Microsoft Research Detours Package

Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows.

VC-LTL - An elegant way to compile lighter binaries.

VC-LTL is an open source CRT library based on the MS VCRT that reduce program binary size and say goodbye to Microsoft runtime DLLs, such as msvcr120.dll, api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll and other dependencies.

Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL)

The Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL) is a header-only C++ library created to make life easier for developers on Windows through readable type-safe C++ interfaces for common Windows coding patterns.

Interop Compositor

Saved me some decompiling and reverse engineering time thanks to ADeltaX's blog!

Win32Acrylic

Win2D sucks!