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transparent windows

    11-Jul-94 14:44:24
Sb: transparent windows
Fm: Steve McAdams 72274,3160
To: all
It appears that when a transparent window is updated, Windows doesn't bother to have whatever windows are under it updated too. The only solution I've found to this is to capture whatever is under the transparent window as a bitmap and restore it before repainting the transparent window. That isn't adequate because the window under the transparent one could have changed. How do people work around this Windows design deficiency? Thanks. -steve