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Transparent form

Hi to you all,

Does anybody know how I can make a form completly transparent. Without transparancy of the other objects in that form.
So that the buttons seems to be placed by theire own on the screen.

Thanks

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Ber

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Ber

P.S. The ShowInTaskbar property should be set to False and the BorderStyle to 0-None

Cheers...
Ber...

Theo Kouwenhoven

ASKER

Hi Ber,

Nice trick, but not only the window is invisible but also all label-objects?

Why

Richie_Simonetti

Cause labels are drawing objects not "real" objects and they are drawn in the same layer as form does.

Ber

This is not really a solution but it might help

Add a text box to the the form
set its properties to the following

Text1.Appearance = 0
Text1.BorderStyle = 0
Text1.BackColor = &H8000000F
Text1.Locked = True

this will look like a label and the user will not be able to type in it...

Cheers...
Ber...

Richie_Simonetti

Ber, it would be possible to hide caret with API stuff also.

Ber

Good point richie

To hide the caret use the following API

place the following in a module
Declare Function HideCaret Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hWnd as Long) As Long

Then set the Gotfocus event in the text Box as follows

Private Sub Text1_GotFocus()
HideCaret (Text1.hWnd)
End Sub

glass_cookie

Hi!

Here's a file for you ver the net:

Download...
http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/transimg.zip
Description: Make a "transparent" form (9K)

There' are controls on it to amke it look as if theys veen placed on a form. Is that what you're looking for?

That's it!

glass scookie : )

Richie_Simonetti

Hi murphey2 any progress/comment?