![]() Windows Vista introduces yet another twist on the road away from non-rectangular windows by allowing developers to apply translucency to portions of a window. Windows 2000 introduced layered windows by means of the WS_EX_LAYERED extended window style and developers were finally able to control not only the shape but also the level of transparency within the window region. ![]() ![]() Although Windows 95 (and Window NT 3.51) introduced Windows developers to non-rectangular windows, through the ability to set the window region for a given window using the SetWindowRgn function, this did not provide transparency since the window was still completely opaque and merely afforded the developer some control over the window’s shape.
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