On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:04 AM, tbuchler wrote:
> Is there a simple way to detect that the user has selected Vista's
> Aero desktop scheme?
The question is two fold
1) are they actually running Vista ?
2) is Vista using Aero as the desktop window manager ?
In Vista a person can select to run a program in compatibility mode
and then the existng methods in WFS tell you that you are running on
NT, XP SP 2 or what ever compatibility mode the user selected. So to
correctly detect Vista you need to try and see if a function that
only exists in Vista is exposed. Aaron clued me in to this.
Something like
function IsReallyVista() as boolean
if System.IsFunctionAvailable( "GetProductInfo", "Kernel32" ) then
return true
else
return false
end if
end function
some caveats
It will report true for anything released *after* Vista as well
This API could be shimmed into older versions of Windows via
service packs and then you'd have to find a different function
As for whether Aero is enabled it seems like HRESULT
DwmIsCompositionEnabled( BOOL *pfEnabled );
will be the right item to check
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