>--- Des Courtney (dcourtn at email dot masconit dot com) on 6.12.01 5:23 AM
>wrote:
>>Subject: Re: blackening the screen
>>From: "Thomas Reed" <thomasareed at earthlink dot net>
>>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:12:07 -0600
>>
>>>does anybody know how to blacken out the screen and keep only the running
>>>program's window visible?
>>
>>Just put up a full-screen window behind all your other windows and paint
>>it black.
>
>Ok, I've seen this suggestion time and time again, but I've never gotten
> this work in a practical fashion. If the user clicks on the full-screen
> window, it comes forward, covering all the other windows. This has made
> it difficult to port some Windows apps that use an MDI backdrop for
> branding/logo presentation. Is there some way of forcing a window to
> stay in a background layer without making all other windows floating?
> (Floating windows don't get EnableMenuItems and menu handlers since
> they're never considered to be the "frontmost" window.) In C/Pascal
> developed programs, I've seen this done.
>
>Des
I agree with you, but the way I would prefer (sorry if I repeat myself)
would be a call to the toolbox in order to blacken the screen; but how to
do it?
carlo
osb dot bdesh at katamail dot com
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