Fix non-legacy backdrop when switching themes and applying Mica or other effect

[Muniwedesu]

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What is the current behavior?

Issue Number: #927

What is the new behavior?

• backdrop is applied correctly

Other information

checked on windows 11 22631 build and on windows 10 19045 build (only default light/dark themes with simple demo app)

[nabeelio]

I'm trying this out based on your last comment (nice timing!), but it's setting the entire window to transparent, instead of applying the Mica background to the navigation control

[Muniwedesu]

@nabeelio afaik mica bg is drawn under the window (as this is set through winapi) and then it will be visible on different controls (including window) only when they either don't have background or the background is transparent, so window bg removal is intended. Though, if it isn't displayed at all, you seem to have some other stuff happening (is your window becoming literally transparent or it just has black/white bg?). Firstly, you should probably check if your OS build supports this effect. It also seems to do nothing if you have backdrop effect set to "Auto", so make sure you set proper backdrop when applying theme.

[nabeelio]

@Muniwedesu thanks - that's interesting. I'm on Windows 11. And yes, setting this, it applies the transparency to everything. I'm converting this over from ModernWPF (removed everything). My window backdrop type is set to Mica. I'm assuming it might be an app.manifest file problem

[Muniwedesu]

@nabeelio maybe something else is changing background settings through winapi after you swap themes - wpfui sets your window background to black/white when you apply any theme, so the window should never become transparent.

[nabeelio]

Yeah, maybe. It's very strange. I'll continue debugging, but good to know your fix works as intended! Thank you

[Muniwedesu]

Check if you have these attributes set in your window tag or if something is doing the same somewhere in your code, wpf apps normally cannot be fully transparent (you should remove them)