Thread: Painting on the entire display...

Hi all--

The basic quesiton I have is that I want to paint in fullscreen mode using GDI+.

I can obtain a handle to the entire display using:

Code:

HDC hdc = CreateDC(L"DISPLAY",NULL,NULL,NULL);

I can even paint on it by getting a graphics object

Code:

Graphics* g = new Graphics(hdc);

and using g->DrawString(...) etc.

If i use the graphics clear() function I can wipe the whole screen to a solid color...but here's the problem:
each time I move the mouse over an area not in my client area, it repaints Windows/Other Programs/ the start menu/ etc underneath.

How can I trap the WM_PAINT message that's going beyond my window alone? Is there such a way?
or alternatively is there a way to make my client area equal to the entire screen?

Thanks for the help!

Just create a fullscreen window.