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From: bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: "grabbing" root window
Message-ID: <106580069@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 3 Nov 89 18:01:55 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Hi, how can I "grab", get acess to the root window?
> i.e. the background screen, which I assume is a window of some kind.

You can call CreateDC for the device DISPLAY.  This gets a DC for the entire
screen device.

The "root window" as such doesn't exist in MSWindows as it does in X.

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems