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Hi There,

Love FlashPlayerControl. Brilliant work. I am trying to paint my flash file to an arbitary DC (transparency, the whole bit). I'm having trouble acheiving this however.

I have 1.1 source, and can see in CFlashWindow that you are capturing the WM_PAINT message (specifically, to draw the demo text). And you are assigning it to do DefWindowProc. I was wondering if you could give me any hints on where or how i might have the flash control paint to a specific DC. I know you can acieve this using other interfaces like IViewObjectEx and others. Any ideas?

I also noticed 1.2 has the ability to export frames to bitmaps, is a similar method used for this?

The ultimate goal of this is to be able to acheive transparent windows to the deaktop... a mighty useful feature.

Regards,

Theo

I basically answered my own question

This does lead to one more question, i am having trouble applying WS_EX_LAYERED to the flash control. I am able to do this to the container window with some tweaking, but this does not solve my problem. I notice the actual flash window is created during the INPLACEACTIVATE process. I dont seem to be able to manipulate the creation process, and i get an error if i try SetWindowLong on the EX styles after the window has been created.

Any tips anyone has to apply this EX style would be most appreciated.

Regards,

T.