My OpenGL game switches Aero DWM Glass off.

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Hi !

I wrote a free game a few years ago: http://www.walkover.org. For the lobby and menus, it uses normal dialogs like win32. When the actual game starts it uses OpenGL.

Now, on Windows 7, when the actual game starts, it switches windows aero glass off and switches it back on when the game is over.

Is there something I can do to prevent this from happening? Some special flags that keep the glass on if it is on? (For newer, I have been using DirectX and this doesn#t happen there.) Maybe some (new) flag I have to specify somewhere?

Thx Marc

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