Transparent Frame

[HydraNL]

Hi,
I looked around, but I can't find a solution to make my Frames transparent anywhere. Could anyone help me out? Thanks in advanced.

 

[CassandraR]

Hi HydraNL

Please see thread thread222-84750 for a response to your answer.

Cassandra

 

[HydraNL]

Thank you CassandraR.

Strange I didn't see that topic yesterday. I searched the forums first. :S

Thank you again.

 

[HydraNL]

To bad.... It almost works.

Every TextBox gets a transparent border, but the frames do not. I changed the code a little:

In the Form_Load()
SetWindowLong Frame1.hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
SetWindowPos Frame1.hWnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, SWP_SHOWME

Can someone help me out?

 

[strongm]

Good luck! VB's frame control is notorious for completely failing to allow transparency (there's some heavy subclassing going on in the ThunderFrame class which means normal techniques such as trying to set WS_EX_TRANSPARENT or setting the background brush to NULL_BRUSH just don't work)

 

[HydraNL]

ai.... to bad. I found a freeware .OCX. I will try that one out.

 

[HydraNL]

This is an OCX that actually works. Perhaps someone can use it. It is freeware.

http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone15/cat227/2360.htm