[cairo] problem with BitBlt

[Mukul Sharma]

Hi,

An easy way to make the initial screen transparent could be to paint it all
in any color with transparency set to 100%.
I had faced a similar problem earlier in my project. What I did was, painted
a rectangle of white color with the required dimensions and painted the rest
of the drawings over it.

You can do the same with transparency set to 100% (as in setting 'a' part in
rgba to 1).
I hope it helps.

Thanks
Mukul

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Michael Gurnett <gurnett at glocalnet.net>wrote:

>  I have the following bit of code
>
> bckgrnd = new Graphics::TBitmap;
>    bckgrnd->Width = ClientWidth;
>    bckgrnd->Height = ClientHeight;
>  HDC hdc;
>  hdc=bckgrnd->Canvas->Handle;
>   cairo_pattern_t *pat;
>  cairo_surface_t *surface;
>
>  surface = cairo_win32_surface_create (hdc);
>  background = cairo_create (surface);
>
> ....
>
>
> The idea is the to draw on the background surface and BitBlt it on my paint
> routine. However, with the code above it appears that the initial drawing
> space is filled white (guessing rgba are all 1). Is there a way to get the
> initial drawing region to be transparant.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
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Thanks and Regards,

Mukul Sharma
Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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