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Kai Tao
494c14fb88 Always on top: window context menu to always on top (#45773)
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## Summary of the Pull Request

Add an option to enable inject a window context menu to always on top
this window.

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- [ ] Closes: #45638 #15387
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Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
2026-02-27 16:45:35 +08:00
Kai Tao
6d4f56cd83 Always on top: Add transparent support for on topped window (#44815)
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Transparency support (best-effort)
> Not every window can be made transparent. Transparency is applied on a
best-effort basis and depends on how the target app/window is built and
rendered.

## When it may not work
* Windows with special rendering pipelines (e.g., certain
hardware-accelerated / compositor-managed surfaces).
* Some tool/popup/owned windows where the foreground window isn’t the
actual surface being drawn.

## How it works (high-level)
* Resolve the best target window (preferring the top-level/root window
over transient children).
* Apply Windows’ standard layered-window alpha mechanism (per-window
opacity) to adjust transparency.
* When unpinned, Restore the original opacity/state when possible.

If transparency doesn’t change, it means the window doesn’t support this
mechanism in its current configuration.
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- [X] Closes: 
#43278 
#42929
#28773

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c97a87f2-3126-4e19-990f-8c684dbeb631

<img width="1119" height="426" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/547671ee-81d3-4c94-8199-bf0c4b1b7760"
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-01-29 13:48:27 +08:00
Seraphima Zykova
b3532b8c91 [Always on top] Transparent border (#28127) 2023-08-25 10:31:51 +02:00
Seraphima Zykova
d201ae4335 [AlwaysOnTop] Round corners on Windows 11 (#19109)
* check window corners

* draw rounded rectangle

* draw rounded corners

* switch between rounded and not rounded rects

* added enabled corners setting

* update corner
2022-07-01 16:56:45 +01:00
Seraphima Zykova
ddcb065b22 [AlwaysOnTop] Inaccurate border position fix (#16206) 2022-02-10 20:24:29 +03:00
Davide Giacometti
2182aabe35 always on top accent color borders (#15709) 2022-01-24 09:02:09 -08:00
Seraphima Zykova
fa81968dbb [AlwaysOnTop] Proof of concept (#14360)
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
2021-12-29 17:33:20 +00:00