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Transparent Color: Visual Studio Windows form

Hi

I am building a Windows form that has a diagram that needs to change to whatever
color the user picks.

The diagram was taken from a screen shot and placed in Microsoft Paint, where I tried
to do a Windows form grey outline and then use transparent colour in the middle.

The idea was to change the background color of the picture box so that it would come through
the transparent part of the diagram, hence appearing to change color.

The problem is the MS Paint doesn't appear to have transparent color, only white.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

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Carl Tawn

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Murray Brown

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Thanks very much. Would you be able to tell me the best folder area to store the gif files for your visual studio project. Thanks

Carl Tawn

I usually create an images folder at the root of the project and then subdirs for further categorization.

Murray Brown

ASKER

So for example I could just create a folder in the following location using Windows Explorer

C:\Documents and Settings\Murray\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\vsCoseq\Images

Thanks

Carl Tawn

Yup, if you want to. Its easier if its under your project somewhere because then you can use relative paths in your pages when including images. Plus, when it comes to deploying your app, you know where everything is.

Murray Brown

ASKER

Thanks very much Carl