Detect Aero Glass using Delphi

posted 4 Aug 2011 12:34 by Delphi Basics
To detect if Aero Glass is enabled we must use the DwmIsCompositionEnabled function. 


Author: Rodrigo Ruz

program DetectAeroDelphi;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
//Author Rodrigo Ruz 2009-10-26
uses
  Windows,
  SysUtils;

function  ISAeroEnabled: Boolean;
type
  _DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc = function(IsEnabled: PBoolean): HRESULT; stdcall;
var
  Flag                       : Boolean;
  DllHandle                  : THandle;
  OsVersion                  : TOSVersionInfo;
  DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc: _DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc;
begin
  Result:=False;
  ZeroMemory(@OsVersion, SizeOf(OsVersion));
  OsVersion.dwOSVersionInfoSize := SizeOf(TOSVERSIONINFO);

  if ((GetVersionEx(OsVersion)) and (OsVersion.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) and (OsVersion.dwMajorVersion >= 6)) then //is Vista or Win7?
  begin
    DllHandle := LoadLibrary('dwmapi.dll');
    if DllHandle <> 0 then
    begin
      @DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc := GetProcAddress(DllHandle, 'DwmIsCompositionEnabled');
      if (@DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc <> nil) then
      begin
        DwmIsCompositionEnabledFunc(@Flag);
        Result:=Flag;
      end;
    end;
      FreeLibrary(DllHandle);
  end;
end;

begin
  try
    if ISAeroEnabled then
    Writeln('Aero Glass enabled')
    else
    Writeln('Aero Glass disabled');
    Readln;
  except
    on E:Exception do
      Writeln(E.Classname, ': ', E.Message);
  end;
end.
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