Re: transparent window after bringWindowToTop is grey
"fiversen" <fiversen@wedding.in-berlin.de> wrote in message
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Hallo,
I have a problem with a transparent window.
My message windows are simple CWnd-Windows, whitch are hide.
Only,
if I want to see the window,
I bring them into front with
'bringWindowToTop()'.
Problem:
I want to give the window a transparent border
( later I want to display a transparent bitmap ).
So I have a
- CtrlColor-Func
it returns NULLBRUSH
- OnEraseBkgnd-Func
first I paint the full area with NULLBRUSH
FillRect(..)
then I reduce the Rect
r.left += 20
r.right -= 20
and fill the small area with a color.
- No OnPaint-Func
But the window is grey.
I have already solutions with transparent Buttons and MarqueeText.
But I hope, only to display a window with transparent background is a
little bit easier.
If this is not a child window, then for transparency, I would make it a
WS_EX_LAYERED_WINDOW. Only with layered windows and Windows regions can you
truly achieve transparency.
Painting with a null brush has no effect at all. As for why the window is
gray, are you by chance calling the inherited OnEraseBkgnd()?
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