WPF Firefox 4 Top Bar?

Question

How would one create the top bar such as in Firefox 4's Orange bar?

I don't want to do my own window class as I still want to be hardware accelerated rather than sofware rendered.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

You'll need to do your own Window drawing, with custom chrome, in order to achieve this type of effect. Here is some sample code showing the technique.

I don't want to do my own window class as I still want to be hardware accelerated rather than sofware rendered.

With WPF, provided you're on a proper rendering tier, the window will still stay hardware accelerated, as WPF uses hardware acceleration for its rendering anyways.