Draw Text with Transparency / Opacity

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Hey Friends

Any idea of how i can draw a text using CDC with Transparency / Opacity ?

Something like Watermarking[^] in MFC ?

On Windows there is option of making Windows Alpha Blend / Transparent using something like

typedef DWORD (WINAPI *PSLWA)(HWND, DWORD, BYTE, DWORD);

static PSLWA pSetLayeredWindowAttributes = NULL;
static BOOL initialized = FALSE;


BOOL MakeWindowTransparent(HWND hWnd, unsigned char factor)
{
   /* First, see if we can get the API call we need. If we've tried
    * once, we don't need to try again. */
   if (!initialized)
   {
      HMODULE hDLL = LoadLibrary ("user32");

      pSetLayeredWindowAttributes = 
         (PSLWA) GetProcAddress(hDLL, "SetLayeredWindowAttributes");

      initialized = TRUE;
   }

   /* ... elided ... */
}

Is there any related way for Text ?


Regards