Transparent images in ImageLists for ListViews

Question

Here is a picture of my program:

As you can see, the icons a

Answer 1

I found a bit of a hack around this problem. If you set the background image to a blank white bitmap using ListView_SetBkImage it will force the icons to draw transparently. Unfortunately, doing this causes NM_CUSTOMDRAW to ignore the background color set with CDRF_NEWFONT. To get around it, call FillRect to fill background of the item in CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT and return CDRF_DODEFAULT or CDRF_NEWFONT if you are changing the foreground color as well.