I have a form with some picture boxes as buttons. I'm setting the picture
property to a gif file for "normal", and to a different gif for the
"pressed" state. This works fine. I get into trouble with the fact that the
gif files have a transperent region in the middle (the button icon) that
lets the back color of the picture box show through. This lets me change the
button highlight to any user-specified color when I mouseover the picbox
(which is done very inefficiently I might add, but that's another story).
Everything works, except that I get occasional flicker that shows through
the image as the backcolor is changing. Is there a way to change the picture
box backcolor without any flicker? I've tried setting it to invisible and
then back, played with z-order, LockWindowUpdat e API, etc., all to no avail.
Some type of memory painting/swapping maybe?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Any good advice for an efficient
"mouseover" event for controls would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much in advance 1 4745
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news:ip******** ******@fe25.use netserver.com: I have a form with some picture boxes as buttons. I'm setting the picture property to a gif file for "normal", and to a different gif for the "pressed" state. This works fine. I get into trouble with the fact that the gif files have a transperent region in the middle (the button icon) that lets the back color of the picture box show through. This lets me change the button highlight to any user-specified color when I mouseover the picbox (which is done very inefficiently I might add, but that's another story).
Everything works, except that I get occasional flicker that shows through the image as the backcolor is changing. Is there a way to change the picture box backcolor without any flicker? I've tried setting it to invisible and then back, played with z-order, LockWindowUpdat e API, etc., all to no avail. Some type of memory painting/swapping maybe?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Any good advice for an efficient "mouseover" event for controls would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much in advance
have you tried setting the autoredraw setting of the picture box to True?
this will eliminate flicker
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