Hi
Can anybody help me with the following? It is driving me crazy!!!
I'm trying to produce a non-rectangular form as follows:
(1) Produce a bitmap e.g. gif, using paint shop pro 5.
(2) The Background color of the bitmap is set to white.
(3) Draw a design on the bitmap in a color other than white.
(4) Create a windows application.
(5) Set the forms background image to be the bitmap created earlier.
(6) Set the transparencyKey of the form to be white i.e. the same as the
background color of the bitmap.
(7) Set the FormBorderStyle to None
(8) Run the application.
I expected just the non-white images but instead I still see the white
background! D'OH!!!
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Here's a link to Microsoft describing the same thing.
Thanks in adavance
Geoff
Nov 21 '05
40  2015 
Geoff,
It has nothing to do with "thank you",
You did not tell why the approaches we offered you did not fit.
While Peter's last message was in my opinion directly a correct one, did you
directly go on with communicating with Herfried when he came in this thread
and left us alone and even not react on the sample from Peter. At the end
you got an answer from Herfried basicly the same as Peters.
When you had answered me directly on my question "if you had tried my
sample", than I had as well directly told to take the approach of MSDN
sample, combined with mine, and in that the part of Peter.
However next time I will leave you for Herfried to answer your questions,
than this will not happen again. Our answers seem not good enough for you.
In addition, that has nothing to do with thank you.
Cor
Cor
I've looked through the tree again and accept what you are saying. I didn't
reply to Peter or yourself and for that I can only apologise. No excuse!
But, as I have so obviously offended you I'll try not to write to this
newsgroup again.
Geoff
"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> wrote in message
news:eq******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Geoff,
It has nothing to do with "thank you",
You did not tell why the approaches we offered you did not fit.
While Peter's last message was in my opinion directly a correct one, did
you directly go on with communicating with Herfried when he came in this
thread and left us alone and even not react on the sample from Peter. At
the end you got an answer from Herfried basicly the same as Peters.
When you had answered me directly on my question "if you had tried my
sample", than I had as well directly told to take the approach of MSDN
sample, combined with mine, and in that the part of Peter.
However next time I will leave you for Herfried to answer your questions,
than this will not happen again. Our answers seem not good enough for you.
In addition, that has nothing to do with thank you.
Cor
Geoff,
I am glad that you understand what I was writting, so I forget it and answer
your following questions again normally, I only wanted to show you that this
is not nice for people who wants to help.
Cor
"Ravichandr an J.V." <jv************ @yahoo.com> schrieb: For WindowsXP and Windows 2000 Go to the Control Panel and change the
Settings(to less than 32). Only then it will work.I assume that you have
set the FormTransparenc y Key property.
There are thousands of users who don't run their machine with the required
color depth, so using 'TransparencyKe y' for arbitrary shaped forms is not a
good idea.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb: You got from me very early a sample, that combined with the sample on MSDN
and that combined with the code Peter was providing you is in my opinion
more than you got now at least from Herfried.
Your sample doesn't show how to create an arbitrary shaped form from a
bitmap/mask.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
"Geoff Jones" <no********@ema il.com> schrieb: But, as I have so obviously offended you I'll try not to write to this
newsgroup again.
You are welcome.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/> You got from me very early a sample, that combined with the sample on
MSDN
and that combined with the code Peter was providing you is in my opinion
more than you got now at least from Herfried.
Your sample doesn't show how to create an arbitrary shaped form from a
bitmap/mask.
Did I say that?
Cor
"Cor Ligthert" <no************ @planet.nl> schrieb: You got from me very early a sample, that combined with the sample on
MSDN
and that combined with the code Peter was providing you is in my opinion
more than you got now at least from Herfried.
Your sample doesn't show how to create an arbitrary shaped form from a
bitmap/mask.
Did I say that?
Well, that's what the OP was obviously looking for.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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