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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing to Root window
Keywords: windows
Message-ID: <73102@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 91 21:29:24 GMT
References: <216@toshais.UUCP> <uPoJ41w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Reply-To: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <uPoJ41w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> mikec@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mike Coward) writes:
>swonk@toshais.UUCP (Glenn L. Swonk) writes:
>The easiest way to get a device context to the screen
>is to call GetDC with a parameter of 0.  ie:
>ScreenDC = GetDC(0);


Or ScreenDC = GetDC(GetDesktopWindow());

That way you aren't depending on NULL behavior.  This function is
new for 3.0.

Ken Sykes
Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.