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Old 11-04-2002, 01:38 PM   #1
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drawing over windows in vb6

Is there anyway, using vb6, to draw lines, dots, etc. over everything on the screen. Unable to be covered up by any other (normal) program.
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Old 11-04-2002, 03:05 PM   #2
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There are API calls to get a device context for the full screen (dunno how it works in VB, but standard WinAPI allows this). You could also use DirectX to accomplish that.

However, any application can overwrite their own window space, and the OS will repaint the remainder, so you'd need to constantly repaint your objects, most likely.
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