Hi Jimmy,

This might give you some idea:

 the following Define can only be applied to a XbpIWindow
#define XBPSYSCLR_TRANSPARENT              (-255)

after searching i found in some VB/ C# Forum
#define CLR_NONE  0xFFFFFFFF


-Joe


AUGE_OHR wrote:
> hi,
>
> i try to use XBPSYSCLR_TRANSPARENT with Listview from MsComCtl.OCX.
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> Listview does have Methode :ForeColor and :BackColor.
> Both work fine with GRA_CLR_* > 0, but fail with XBPSYSCLR_TRANSPARENT
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> after searching i found in some VB/ C# Forum
> #define CLR_NONE  0xFFFFFFFF
>
> which seem to work using
> SendMessageA(hList,LVM_SETTEXTBKCOLOR , 0, CLR_NONE )
> and
> SendMessageA(hList,LVM_SETBKCOLOR     , 0, CLR_NONE )
>
>
> so why does XBPSYSCLR_TRANSPARENT fail, but CLR_NONE work ?
>
> greetings by OHR
> Jimmy
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