Re: [bugs #10818] win32 backend doesn't properly display transparency...

[Jeff Teunissen]

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> This is a well know limitation of the windows backend and all attempts
> to fix this with GDI functions have failed so far. My opinion is that we
> will need to switch to GDI++, for which C-wrappers exist, to resolve
> this. But there are currently no free header files for GDI++ available
> and I wont be using the ones from MS.

Keep in mind that GDI's colors are backwards -- BGR, not RGB -- and when you
use transparency, they're BGRA. You need to swap red and blue.

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