Greets. You could try handling the WM_CTLCOLOR (or WM_CTLCOLORBTN and/or WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC) messages in the parent window and return a NULL brush. Am not sure that would work, haven't tried it but it's worth a shot.

AtomAnt - If God wanted man to code, man would have been born without the need to sleep.

A message map "just" maps incoming messages to methods, it shouldn't care if the given method is accessible from outside of the class or not, so basicly making it public is ok, just not too nice. As an alternative, you could call these methods thorough the message map by using SendMessage or PostMessage.

AtomAnt - If God wanted man to code, man would have been born without the need to sleep.

Look into "UpdateLayeredWindow" if you want to use per-pixel blending.

AtomAnt

Could it be possible that the WM_SETTEXT you get has been "POSTED" and the buffer lParam contains a pointer at has been destroyed by the time you get the hook-call?

AtomAnt