Re: Transparent child window

Have you tried to drag the parent window around? What happes to the child window if you
drag the parent window? My expectation is that the popup window will not move with the
parent, but I haven't tried this.
joe

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:48:45 -0400, Edward Diener <eddielee_no_spam_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Kellie Fitton wrote:
On Jul 21, 12:37 pm, Edward Diener
<eddielee_no_spam_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a child window with a light-colored background color brush, which
I want to be transparent so that the underlying parent window shows
through the background. A layered window does not work with a child
window. Is there any way I can do this with a child window ?



Hi,

Have you tried the following Windows style to create
a transparent window:

CreateWindowEx() WS_EX_TRANSPARENT

Or,

SetWindowRgn()


I was able to switch my window type from WS_CHILD to WS_POPUP and use
the WS_EX_LAYERED extended style as well as the
SetLayeredWindowAttributes to achieve my goals. Thanks for your help !
.

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