[Dev-C++] Transparent Windows

[Alvin C G. <vin...@ed...>]

I'm having trouble creating transparent windows...

I create the window with WS_EX_TRANSPARENT style and CreateWindowEx returns a valid handle. Now, that the window is created, while the application is running, the desktop doesn't update(it doest draw itself). The code might rather be long and slightly unreadable but I'll send it to anyone's request. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Basically, What I wanted to do was to hide a window from the sight of the user as well as from the taskbar. I don't want the user know it is running. And would still receive window messages, waiting until I Log off the computer or Shutdown the computer (in this case, it would recieve a WM_QUIT Message, and the program should exit). If I tried to loop the program (not using any window), the system would consider it not responding. Also the program would'nt know when to stop. Does anyone know any alternative to do this.

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