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Where are you trying to get this?...on your form?...or on the desktop too?
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Where are you trying to get this?...on your form?...or on the desktop too?

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On my picturebox - winforms, sorry I missed that. VB 2008.
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On my picturebox - winforms, sorry I missed that. VB 2008.

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Yes that's it. I had to adjust the startPT and endPT with PointToScreen coordinates, but it works great. I want a crisp edge for it so I'll work on the paint event for it to draw a border - see if that will work. You have always have a great mind for things like this - no pun intended LOL. <br />
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Yes that's it. I had to adjust the startPT and endPT with PointToScreen coordinates, but it works great. I want a crisp edge for it so I'll work on the paint event for it to draw a border - see if that will work. You have always have a great mind for things like this - no pun intended LOL.
   



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Yeah...you should be able to pop something pretty easily into the paint event to get a border. &nbsp;=)
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Yeah...you should be able to pop something pretty easily into the paint event to get a border.  =)

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This made a very crisp border! <br />
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ControlPaint.DrawReversibl<wbr />eFrame(sf.<wbr />Bounds, Drawing.Color.Black, FrameStyle.Thick)<br />
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Painting one was not as crisp due to the opacity.<br />

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This made a very crisp border!

ControlPaint.DrawReversibleFrame(sf.Bounds, Drawing.Color.Black, FrameStyle.Thick)

Painting one was not as crisp due to the opacity.


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Hi am looking to try to get a similar look to the windows mousedown rectangle you see in Vista on the desktop. Semi-translucent light blue rectangle. I have tried this in the mousemove event - (r) being the updated points:<br />
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Dim color As Color = Color.FromArgb(30, 0, 200, 255)<br />
ControlPaint.FillReversibl<wbr />eRectangle<wbr />(r, color)<br />
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Other ideas? I am an advanced-beginner in GUI+ , thanks for the help...
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Hi am looking to try to get a similar look to the windows mousedown rectangle you see in Vista on the desktop. Semi-translucent light blue rectangle. I have tried this in the mousemove event - (r) being the updated points:

Dim color As Color = Color.FromArgb(30, 0, 200, 255)
ControlPaint.FillReversibleRectangle(r, color)

Other ideas? I am an advanced-beginner in GUI+ , thanks for the help...

ControlPaint.FillReversibleRectangle

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