Need a phaser beam...hehe!

[docjohn52]

I need this for a class project... not for grade, I'm 52 y.o. and a pro vb6 programmer.

I'm rewriting the old startrek game, with the 10,10 grid screen, and you have the enterprise and you have to visit x amount of quadrants and sectors in x amount of time to kill all the klingons... (you must have seen a variant of this game, I saw one that printed "E" and "K's" on greenbar...

Have built a 10x10 grid of labels on the main form (labels support both icons and text), enterprise in one, klingon in another, how in god's name do i draw a line between the two...?!

I have tried transparent forms, (namespace) and the line is transparent too, including opaque stuff (and making the main form opaque, still see through it)...

Can't just draw a line, because it occurs under the labels, on the form...

Can't make the labels transparent because it shows the desktop not the base form...

My instructor suggested a button control, manipulating the position, and this makes a wonderful photon torpedo. (the last control drawn apparently takes "bring forward?"), but still need a phaser.


How do I do this?

John

 

[infinitelo]

Try looking up the Chalk Talk sample on msdn.
It might have what you need.
(i think you need a transparent image box on top to draw on)





if it is to be it's up to me

 

[docjohn52]

tried that, it shows right through to the desktop, and doesn't show the icons for the enterprise and kingon, etc...