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LVM_GETBKCOLOR returns -1

Postby sittingduck » Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:18:45 GMT 

Hello,

     I have noticed that XP's desktop window (actually SysListView32)
receives LVM_GETBKCOLOR and returns -1 for me. Does this mean its
background is completely transparent or just the icon text background
is transparent?

     I am trying to figure out if Progman or SysListView32 are the
ones painting the desktop wallpaper. I can't seem to figure out which
one it is. Do they both do it? My current understanding is that
SysListView32 gets LVM_GETBKCOLOR, returns -1, and Progman draws the
actual wallpaper. If this is the case, and I cannot subclass Progman
(I've read this in multiple places), then how am I supposed to safely
override the wallpaper-drawing code?

     I've tried causing LVM_GETBKCOLOR to return 1 (the color black)
and indeed the desktop wallpaper became solid black but the problem
then is when I drag a window back a forth across the desktop very
quickly I see Progman's wallpaper "leaking through" before the
SysListView32 background draws. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks,
Gili
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Re: LVM_GETBKCOLOR returns -1

Postby Timo Kunze » Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:00:09 GMT 

The SysListView32 class supports background images, so it's probably the 
listview that is drawing the wallpaper.
Also MSDN says the following for LVM_SETBKCOLOR:
Background color to set or the CLR_NONE value for no background color. 
List-view controls with background colors redraw themselves 
significantly faster than those without background colors.

HTH
Timo
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Re: LVM_GETBKCOLOR returns -1

Postby sittingduck » Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:42:09 GMT 



Thanks Timo,

   FYI: What I actually saw is that unless LVM_GETBKCOLOR returned a
solid color (i.e. anything but -1) then the image specified by
LVM_GETBKIMAGE would keep on getting clobbered by the Program Manager
background. When LVM_GETBKCOLOR returned 1 (black), the image
specified by LVM_GETBKIMAGE would draw just fine.

Gili
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