Hey there experts,

I have a unique situation with my Adobe AIR application, that I would be 
extremely grateful if anyone could help me understand.

Attached is an image of my situation. So, what I have is, in Windows 7, an AIR 
app launched with System Chrome = 'none', and Transparent = 'true', so that it 
only displays an icon in the center with a close button, without the typical 
window look. Now, what's interesting is that when I use some of the older 
colorpicker tools, the icon or the button (or anything within my Air window for 
that matter), are simply not detected. Every other window gets detected. When I 
move the mouse cursor over the icon, the colorpicker shows me the background 
and not the icon.

Now, it isn't that I need the colorpicker tool to detect my window. I'm 
actually happy this is happening. I'm am desperately trying to know the reason 
behind this so that I can use this same principle in my AIR application to 
capture the entire desktop screen excluding my AIR window in the foreground.

Can someone help me understand how the AIR app manages to stay invisible to the 
older colorpicker tools? Some of the newer ones seem to detect the app. So, I'm 
thinking this is something to do with the way post-Windows-Vista-OS'es have 
(Aero?), or something different with the GDI.

Can someone help me understand this, please?


If it helps, here are the older colorpicker tools I use:
http://www.iconico.com/download.aspx?app=ColorPic (Version 4.0, NOT Version 4.1)
https://archive.org/details/tucows_302256_ColorPicker


Thank you very very much!

David





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