I am writing a product that needs to draw text over a tiled bitmap
background. Using WinDrawChars always appears to paint the characters as
well as a solid background color, obscuring the bitmap background. I
would like to draw only the characters themselves.
It appeared from the documentation that the way to go would be to use
WinPaintChars with a masking methodology, paint the characters once with
WinSetDrawMode( winErase ), and then drawing them again with
WinSetDrawMode( winOverlay ), with appropriate background and foreground
colors set. That, of course didn't work.
There must be a simple way to set a transparent background for drawing
text, I just haven't found it, and I'm sure I'm not the first person to
want to do this. Any help out there?
- John
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