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
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