Codeslinger

So Codejock has done what I thought someone should do, make a generic, all Windows versions version of the Task Dialog. It's not perfect (points off for putting your copy of the structure definitions in effectively the global namespace), but it's pretty good.

So I'm calling UpdateLayeredWindow to do transparency effects, and it's failing with no error code set. Turns out it seems to be an issue with running the app through Terminal Services. Would have been nice for Microsoft to actually produce a useful error code, like, say, I dunno, "this API is broken with Terminal Services cause our coders didn't finish it" or something. Kinda like the multi-threaded apartment version of the IShell interface in Windows XP (oops, we ran out of time, sorry). Seriously, people... documentation, it's what makes a platform usable for developers.