Stopping windows from drawing a window...

I cannot figure out how to stop windows from drawing a window, I think its a "USERDRAW" flag but I am not sure, I dont wan the window not to be there, I just want to draw it myself, any ideas?

SPH

Make sure your wnd has a NULL brush when you create it. Give it the WS_POPUP style (|WS_SYSMENU if you want to get it to minimize to the taskbar).

Then just draw it (blt) yourself either diy, in WM_PAINT or WM_ERASEBKGND.

If you give your wnd the WS_SYSMENU style you might want to handle the WM_NCHITTEST to emulate/simulate default sys menu cmds.

Thats what I did, and it works okay, but I wanted to know if there was a was to keep the window the way it is, but make windows just not draw it?

SPH

P.S. I used the "do it you'reself way", didn't use windowz messaging stuff... I wrote math to simulated buttons and sliderz and the system menu itself.

>>didn't use windowz messaging stuf<<

which is possibly the beginning & end of your problem.

At the very least, handle the WM_ERASEBKGND; all you need do in it is:

return TRUE;

This should stop windows from drawing the background.

Don't call ShowWindow()?