I am using DrawThemeTextEx to draw text with glow behind on a form that uses the Aero Glass effects of Vista and Win7, and it works perfectly (as per the first picture below).
However, if I add some color to the glass using LinearGradientBrush, the text is surrounded by a transparent rectangle (as in the second picture).
Is there a way around this?
Works fine with standard blur:
Obviously not right when adding color to the glass:
I can supply the source code for anyone who can take a look.
Cheers
Rowan