TranslucentFlyouts V2

An application that makes most of the win32 popup menus translucent/transparent on Windows 10/11, providing more options to tweak it to meet your need.

Compared to V1, TranslucentFlyouts V2 has better compatibility and the ability to customize.
TranslucentFlyouts V1 has been moved to TranslucentFlyoutsV1.
TranslucentFlyouts uses LGNU V3 license started from V2.

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Catalog

• Gallery
• How to use
• Config
• Limitations & Compatibility
• Dependencies & References

Gallery

Acrylic

Windows 10

Windows 11

Mica/MicaAlt (Windows 11 Only)

Custom Rendering Sample

How to use

Install

1. Download the compiled program archive from the Release page.
2. Unzip it to a location such as "C:\Program Files".
3. Run "install.cmd" as administrator.
4. Logoff to take effect.

Downloading symbol files from Microsoft server is required at the first time or after a windows update, otherwise some functionalities will be unavailable!
cmd: Rundll32 "your path/TFMain64.dll",Main /install"

Uninstall

1. Run "uninstall.cmd" as administrator.
2. Delete the remaining files.

cmd: Rundll32 "your path/TFMain64.dll",Main /uninstall"

Limitations and Compatibility

Here are some situations that TranslucentFlyouts will always be automatically disabled.

1. Windows 2000 Style popup menu

Outdated.

2. Ownerdrawn popup menu

As you can see, it is a QT popup menu.
It really looks like the default menu, isn't it?
But it's rendering procedure is completely different from the defualt one, making TranslucentFlyout hard to modify its visual content.

3. StartAllBack

You can use TranslucentFlyouts with StartAllback but you really need to pay attention to the followings...
StartAllBack has built-in support for translucent popup menu, its rendering procedure priority is higher than TranslucentFlyouts, so TranslucentFlyouts will actually do nothing for Windows Explorer. (maybe it's time to let StartAllBack know they should add an option to disable it entirely! )

It wil also cause following possible issues when using together with TranslucentFlyouts

1. Hovered menu item with flaws

As you can see there is a white border around the menu item, it will always exist until you disable or uninstall StartAllBack...
To solve this, you should set the dword value "EnableCustomRendering" to non-zero for TranslucentFlyouts.
Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\TranslucentFlyouts\Menu\EnableCustomRendering

2. Abnormal DropDown flyout

It become opaque... To solve this, you should set the dword value "Disabled" to non-zero for TranslucentFlyouts.
Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\TranslucentFlyouts\DropDown\Disabled

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.