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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:13:26+00:00

I am interested in how Chrome was able to write such a good looking

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I am interested in how Chrome was able to write such a good looking GUI? What libraries and methods did they use?

I am particularly amazed that it acts 100% like a regular GUI – you can drag it by the blue strip and the regular buttons [_, o, x] are made differently. Also tab dragging is so seamless. In fact you can drag a tab outside of existing GUI and it will create a new window fluidly.

Does anyone know more details about this?

I am asking because I also want to write great looking GUI for my applications. And this is a good start to understand the process.

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    Likely purely Windows API.

    There is are functions in Win32 to override almost any aspect of Window behavior / and or look. For example, you can intercept the WM_NC_PAINT message to paint the “non-client area” (title bar and max/min buttons). You can do this on any app, in fact.

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