Transparent Controls.

[PaiD]

I am working on getting a Listview's background to become transparant. When I try the whole control is tranparant and I was hoping where was another way to do this or if I am doing it wrong. I use the same thing on my Rich Text Box and it works flawless and I only see the text that was displayed on it. How ever the listview just disapears.

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Public Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long

Public Const GWL_EXSTYLE = (-20)
Public Const WS_EX_TRANSPARENT = &H20


SetWindowLong frmMain.rtbMain.hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
' That works
'SetWindowLong frmMain.lvUsers.HWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
' That works all to well and I dont see the text :p


Any ideas?

[MyndFyre]

Custom draw the text on the list view?

[PaiD]

MyndFyre: Which API's could I use to do this?

[Blaze]

I'd think either DrawText, DrawTextEx, or TextOut