Transparent frame a-glass for MDI WinChild ( antonio ? )

[Rick Lipkin]

Antonio

Hope things are going well with your Korean venture !! .. I posted this subject a few days and no real answers. To recap .. I have a MDI application and winchilds .. with aero glass .. the MDI frame ( title and sides ) are transparent .. I would like to know if it is possible for the winchildren to have that same behavior ?? ..

What I get is a solid title frame and sides .. which is kinda 'ugly' .. however, if this is a OS constraint .. I can live with it. I would use Dialogs\nowait .. but one bad side-effect is when the MDI is minimized .. the dialog does not follow the MDI and remains on the screen .. so I had to go back to my MDI\Winchild code.

Just curious if you had a work around ?

Rick Lipkin

[Antonio Linares]

Rick,

It seems as a Windows API limitation:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=538245

[Rick Lipkin]

Antonio

I was afraid of that ... the transparent frame looks so much more elegant than the solid winchild frame .. I am fishing with Bill this weekend .. I will ask him to see if he still has any influence with Mr. Balmer

Rick

[Antonio Linares]

Rick,

Please send best regards to Bill and tell him that they have done a great job with Windows 7

[Rick Lipkin]

Antonio

I truly like Windows 7 myself and I will share this e-mail from our MS rep about the July availability of W7 .. I don't even see our Agency doing a Vista migration .. XP to W7

Rick

>>> Lewis Perry <Lewis.Perry@microsoft.com> 6/5/2009 11:57 AM >>>
Richard,

By now you have probably heard about our announcement earlier this week. No, I'm not talking about Project Natal<http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/> (though it looks pretty cool), but the Windows 7 availability. By mid July we expect to send Windows 7 RTM to manufacturing (we also said that Windows Server 2008 R2 should be around that time too) with general availability October 22nd. Windows Server 2008 R2 is aligned with the RTM and GA dates of Windows 7. VL customers will be able to download the code shortly after RTM

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/feat ... eimer.mspx

http://windowsteamblog.com/

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Thanks!
Lewis Perry

[Antonio Linares]

Rick,

> XP to W7

Yes