This screenshot was taken after an online game.
WTF?

Yes, I think all WA is is a default windows button thing with A WA skin on top.
Some of my screenies come out like that.

Open WA.exe with a resource editor (after unpacking it), and you'll understand.

Yes, I think all WA is is a default windows button thing with A WA skin on top.
Some of my screenies come out like that.

Yes indeed, the frontend works that way. They get away with it because ddraw draws on top of EVERYTHING. Unless it's Wine's ddraw (unless it has been patched for this--unfortunately the patch isn't good enough to get into wine).

Edit: I think they override the actual functionality of the controls to the point that they reimplement everything themselves with their crazy ddraw overlay system. They probably only did it so they could use some nice gui to place the controls.

Edit2: Diablo (the first one) does exactly the same thing.

Edit3: As far as I know, the Diablo people and the WA people came up with this idea independently. It wasn't a very good idea, which is why it hasn't caught on.

I wonder if this trick will work in Windows Vista.

it does, ish.

It loads up with slightly distored graphics and after about 20 secs in the menus the whole thing crashes. In that time you can use the menus fine however.