OLE clipping

[Ulrich Czekalla]

Hi Mike,

It could be a z-order issue. If you want, I'll have a look if you send
me a sample app or point me to a download link.

/Ulrich

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:04, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been staring at traces all day trying to figure this one out, and
> haven't got very far, so I'm wondering if you guys have any advice. I
> have an application which embeds an IE web browser control into a
> window, and then proceeds to draw over it, which should be clipped. The
> reason it draws over it, is because this is a Java Swing app and there
> are wierd interactions between "lightweight" and "heavyweight"
> components (whether they have Win32 windows or not).
> 
> In fact, I'm doubly confused, because during execution I can see calls
> to PatBlt, BitBlt and StretchBlt, but if I disable that code by putting
> a return true; at the top of X11DRV_InternalStretchBlt, which they all
> call, nothing changes! The app looks exactly the same, minus the
> WebBrowser control. So clearly Java does not use the *Blt family of
> functions, but I can't see any other calls that leap out at me as to
> what it might use.
> 
> So anyway, I've got a few questions:
> 
> 1) What else could Java be using to draw, if not the blitter functions?
> 2) Is there some crucial part of GDI clipping that isn't implemented
> which might be causing this problem?
> 3) Is it normal that the parent window of an ActiveX embedder can draw
> over its children in this way? I'd have thought the GDI would have
> clipped it.
> 
> I think I'm going to experiment with a standard Win32/Delphi app and
> drawing over an ActiveX control, to see what happens.
> 
> thanks -mike