AnimateWindow - background always black?

[Marion Denny]

Greetings,

I'm trying to use the AnimateWindow(...) API function (W2K) to load a
form designed in VB6. It works fine by caling it like:

Call AnimateWindow(Form1.HWND, 200, AW_BLEND Or AW_ACTIVATE)

... where Form1 is a valid form window and AW_BLEND and AW_ACTIVATE are
defined constants. The problem is, the background is always black. I
can reset it after the window is drawn by resetting the Form1.Background
property, but obviously this does not produce the desired effect of
fading into the completely drawn window. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in Advance!
-marion

[Thomas Kabir]

Hi,

You will need to subclass the WM_PRINTCLIENT message and redraw the
background color with FillRect.

Thomas