title: Windows API: write to screen as on screen display
body: <p>I am writing a (very) small application which just performs some minor things at start and should write a message on the screen similar as for an on-screen-display: Big letters, without any window, above everything, visible for some moment and then fade away.</p>
  
  <p>If possible I do not want to create a window for it.</p>
  
  <p>What is the right way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>(I hope there are no special toolkits like DirectX, direct graphics access etc. required)</p>