How to make GUI like solidege transparent controls

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   Hi

I was wondering if anyone knows about how to make GUI like SolidEdge . It has transparent controls on Render screen I am sure it's MFC controls.

Any idea how to make MFC controls transparent on render screen ? I also add screenshot with showing red rectangle of similar controls.

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devil20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 29 June 2006 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote devil20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to make GUI like solidege transparent controls Posted: 09 October 2013 at 1:24am
	Hi I was wondering if anyone knows about how to make GUI like SolidEdge . It has transparent controls on Render screen I am sure it's MFC controls. Any idea how to make MFC controls transparent on render screen ? I also add screenshot with showing red rectangle of similar controls.

devil20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 29 June 2006 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote devil20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 October 2013 at 12:51am
	It seems it uses XTPDockingPaneMiniWnd for pane and SysTreeView32 control. I tried several ways but i dont find how to make pan transparent, is it possible to use make alpha blend for pane i.e. SetLayeredWindowAttributes can be used ?