windows 8 and aero about bbclean-xzero450

[diab0l]

will look into dwm and create some test applications.
maybe we can make applications play nice with the decorations.
we could also check whether glass is enabled, but on win8 this would have the same effect as just disabling the plugin. might be better than having it flicker like crazy 💃 (holy shit, there are emoticons)

[diab0l]

In hopes somebody looks into this now that there's a bounty, here's some more info on the subject:
This issue is about bbLeanSkin, located in the source tree of this project under BlackBoxZero/plugins/BBLeanSkin.

bbLeanSkin uses window subclassing to draw the non-client area (window title, decorations).
Unskinned window's non-client areas have the windows classic look, skinned windows' non-client areas look and behave like they would in the *nix blackbox window manager (and are very customizable).

Since window subclassing doesn't work across threads (even less processes), bbLeanSkin injects an engine dll into other processes via global hooks.
The engine dll then goes on to install the subclasses for windows which are not excluded.

On a 64bit system, there's also a 32bit process which installs hooks for 32bit processes, but that's just a detail.

Recent versions of windows (starting with Vista) have introduced the DWM which also draws the non-client area of windows and interferes with bbLeanSkin.

In Vista and 7, the workaround was to either disable Aero or bbLeanSkin, but in Win8 you can't disable Aero anymore, so to be compatible we have to make bbLeanSkin DWM-aware.

In essence, we need a replacement which implements DWM custom frames, probably using the same subclass/hook mechanism.

The catch in all this is that of course, the custom frame should be drawn with the currently applicable blackbox style (which is the reason to have it in the first place :)