How do I make a window transparent for mouse clicks?

[Chris9820]

Hi, I would like to develop a kind of news displaying app with a transparent window. Unfortunately my machine does not support alpha-blending overlays. Therefore, I want to have an inactive always-on-top window that doesn't capture mouse events. Instead, all events shall be passed to the underlying windows, just as if my window would not exist. Is that possible? :confused: Thanks, Chris

[Michael Dunn]

Handle WM_NCHITTEST and return HTTRANSPARENT --Mike-- Latest blog entry: *drool* (Alyson) [May 10] Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me

[Chris9820]

I have tried this. It doesn't work, because the currently active application still becomes inactive when I click into my window. :( Any other suggestion? Chris