win32 sdk: how to make the caption/border of a child window transparent

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Published on 2010-05-29T05:17:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 5:52 UTC
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I'm creating a child window within the main window. I assigned these styles to the child window:

WS_CHILDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL | WS_SIZEBOX | WS_CAPTION

The child window I get has a caption and a resizable border. However there's no close button in the caption, and the caption/border of the child window is not transparent (I'm using the aero theme in windows 7).

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How to add close button to the caption? How can I make the caption/border transparent?

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