A simple transparent CStatic-derived class

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Description

Sometimes, transparent static controls are very useful. For example, you have a dialog with a bitmap in it and want to add some text in the picture. If you create a static control, your text will appear on an opaque background, even if you've selected the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT style (this style is *very* buggy).

How to implement

To use the class in your application you need to do the following:

1. Insert the .h and .cpp files into your project.
2. Add a static control into your dialog resource.
3. Add a member variable for that static control.
4. Modify the variable declaration.
   Change this:

   CStatic m_Static

   To this:

   CTransparentStatic m_Static

5. Don't forget the #include at the top of the include file:

   #include "TransparentStatic.h"

That's it. You should now have a transparent background.

Features

The following Static Styles are implemented:

• SS_LEFT
• SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP
• SS_RIGHT
• SS_CENTER
• SS_CENTERIMAGE (center text vertically)
• SS_NOPREFIX
• SS_WORDELLIPSIS
• SS_ENDELLIPSIS
• SS_PATHELLIPSIS

The various borders (SS_SUNKEN, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, ...) are also supported.