Transparent Button?

[woohoo]

Hi, im trying to make my button edges blend into the background. Right now when i use

CreateWindowExA(WS_EX_TRANSPARENT,"BUTTON", "Msg", WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD, 156, 1, 86, 22, hWnd, NULL, NULL, NULL);

it does this

http://i55.tinypic.com/21kb1g2.png

Is there another way to make the background of the button to be the background color of the window.

[Computergeek01]

Do you mean you want to get rid of that black border that defines the area of the button?

[woohoo]

Yes, sorry for explaining it incorrectly.

[fanprogrammer]

I've encountered this problem too...

Try to handle WM_CTLCOLORBTN message

switch (message)
{
    case WM_CTLCOLORBTN:
            HBRUSH hBrushBtn;
            hBrushBtn = (HBRUSH) GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH);
            SetBkMode((HDC) wParam, TRANSPARENT);
    return ((LRESULT) hBrushBtn);
}

return 0;

I suppose you know how to handle the messages :)

And create your button with CreateWindow() function. If you use CreateWindowEx() or other,
DON'T ADD WS_EX_TRANSPARENT FLAG !

[woohoo]

O.o I took out "WS_EX_TRANSPARENT" and the same thing happened. : (

[fanprogrammer]

Then I don't know what happened when you've removed it :D
It didn't work for me when I added WS_EX_TRANSPARENT flag so if it works for you with that flag do it your way :) Windows is a really messed up thing...

And what Windows do you have ? 7 or XP ?