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[Hardeep]

Adding ListView to a themed Tab control, renders ineffective the BackgroundTrans option of a Text control added earlier to the Tab.

[Chris]

I doubt there is any workaround because the current behavior is caused by other workarounds to make tab controls cooperate with ListViews. The only way to solve this is probably to design and create a proper tab control that supports themes/backgrounds. I believe this would require a special window inside the tab control to be the parent of all the tab's controls (by contrast, the current behavior draws controls directly on top of a tab control).

There's a tentative plan to improve tab controls, but it probably won't get done for a long time. Before then, there's a good chance someone will use DllCall/OnMessage to create a better tab control.

[Hardeep]

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