+    // Get all the rectangles from the region, convert the individual
+    // rectangles to "the other" coordinate system and reassemble a
+    // region from the rectangles, to be feed into m_updateRegion.
+    //
+    // FIXME: This is a bad hack since OS/2 API specifies that rectangles
+    //         passed into GpiSetRegion must not have Bottom > Top,
+    //          however, at first sight, it _seems_ to work nonetheless.
+    //
+    RGNRECT                     vRgnData;
+    PRECTL                      pUpdateRects = NULL;
+    vRgnData.ulDirection = RECTDIR_LFRT_TOPBOT;
+    if (::GpiQueryRegionRects( hPS          // Pres space
+                              ,hRgn         // Handle of region to query
+                              ,NULL         // Return all RECTs
+                              ,&vRgnData    // Will contain number or RECTs in region
+                              ,NULL         // NULL to return number of RECTs
+                             ))
+    {
+        pUpdateRects = new RECTL[vRgnData.crcReturned];
+        vRgnData.crc = vRgnData.crcReturned;
+        vRgnData.ircStart = 1;
+        if (::GpiQueryRegionRects( hPS      // Pres space of source
+                                  ,hRgn     // Handle of source region
+                                  ,NULL     // Return all RECTs
+                                  ,&vRgnData // Operations set to return rects
+                                  ,pUpdateRects // Will contain the actual RECTS
+                                 ))
+        {
+            int                     height;
+            RECT                    vRect;
+            ::WinQueryWindowRect(GetHwnd(), &vRect);
+            height = vRect.yTop;
+
+            for(size_t i = 0; i < vRgnData.crc; i++)
+            {
+                int                 rectHeight;
+                rectHeight = pUpdateRects[i].yTop - pUpdateRects[i].yBottom;
+                pUpdateRects[i].yTop = height - pUpdateRects[i].yTop;
+                pUpdateRects[i].yBottom = pUpdateRects[i].yTop + rectHeight;
+            }
+            ::GpiSetRegion(hPS, hRgn, vRgnData.crc, pUpdateRects);
+            delete [] pUpdateRects;
+        }
+    }
+