I've recently gotten over the hurdle of a Borderless form that doesn't show in the Taskbar to not be hidden when the user clicks the Show Desktop button in windows by using the SetParent API to make the windows all children of the desktop, but now I can't change the Opacity of the form, it throws an exception:
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When I set the opacity of a form to 50%, the opacity of a label on that form is also set to 50%, but I do not want so, is there anyway to make a 100%-opacity-label with 50%-opacity-LabelBackground on a 50%-opacity-form?
View 6 RepliesI have a form with a PNG image as its background image. How can I make the form's opacity match the opacity at different parts of the image? (for example, I have a drop shadow that fades from black to transparent. How do I acheive this effect on a form?)
View 9 RepliesHow can I set the Opasity of a form (not form1) down to 50% but leaving the Buttons and TextBoxes at 100% Opacity?
View 9 RepliesFrom the visual code requests as you can guess i think a good GUI is very important in an App. What i want is to lower the opacity of my textbox so u can see the SWF in the background, is this possible?
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How to increase a forms opacity without increasing the opacity of the controls in the form?
View 1 RepliesI have been trying to open MS word within a form container. Tried the following code that I got from the vbforums, but ms word opens as a separate window than the actual form.
Public Shared Function SetParent(ByVal hWndChild As IntPtr, ByVal hWndNewParent As IntPtr) As Integer
End Function
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Ok so I've been struggling for a few hours now,
Private tHandle As HandleRef
Private tPlacement As xWinPlacement
Private Sub Mainfrm_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
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I have a 2 files here. One is my main form, and the other is a dialog I made. Now I'm trying to get enter code here the dialog to gradually obtain its transparency from a timer which I have on the dialong form:
If Me.Opacity = "100" Then
Timer1.Stop()
Timer1.Enabled = False
Else
Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity + 1
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Is it possible to have a forms opacity at lets say 10% and have a picturebox on the form transparent but have its contents at 100% opacity? Because when i set the forms opacity to 10% it sets all its controls to 10% opacity.
View 2 RepliesHow can I show a form as a child of a window that isn't in my program?I have a window handle to what should be the parent, but I don't see any managed method for SetParent() on a form. Is there one? It also seems that the form.Show() method only accepts managed objects implementing IWin32Window.f there isn't a managed method, what is the preferred method for declaring the API for maximum compatibility with future systems? Like this?:
<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Private Shared Function SetParent(hWndChild As IntPtr, hWndNewParent As IntPtr) As IntPtr
End Function
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I have consumed a word doc in my app with the SetParent and SetWindowLong APIs. When I close the app I want to leave the word doc open. I have used the SetParent and used IntPtr.Zero(2nd parameter) which kinda works - it just does not have a document border. Would I use the SetWindowLong function - if so what would the parameters be? I have looked at the SetWindowLong function, just not sure about the second and last parameters. What would be the proper way to do this?
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Is there a way to change the opacity of the main form without changing the opacity of the controls within it? I'd like the background to be semi-transparent, without affecting the buttons, etc
View 4 Replieswould like to know how to program if i wanto change the programs opacity!I also got a drop down menu but idk how im gonna do..I was try like
If combobox1.text = "50%" then
Me.opacity = 50%
Else
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I can't find a way to change the opacity of a mdi form within it's parent. I can change the parent form's opacity under properties, but can't change the embedded mdi form's opacity under it's properties. Opacity = 0.5 doesn't change the opacity of the mdi... works fine for the parent form. I was hoping that the embedded mdi forms functions would still be independent of the parent in order for me to change it's opacity.
View 2 RepliesI have my form set up to be able to be kept on top if the user so chooses. When it is set to be kept on top, I want the opacity to be reduced when the form loses focus. When I set opacity on init, it works fine. When I use this code, it doesn't work:
Private Sub Form1_LostFocus(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LostFocus
Me.Opacity = 0.2
End Sub
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Maybe I misunderstand how LostFocus and GotFocus work, but according to MSDN this appeared to be what I wanted.
I want to change my controls opacity .I know how can i change the form opacity but I want to change the controls opacity without change the the form opacity , such as : "I want to set my form opacity = %100 and the button opacity = %50 " or "I want to set my form opacity = %50 and the button opacity = %100 " I'm using visual studio 2005 .net .I want to do that in basic language
View 3 RepliesI need to be able to change my form's opacity without changing the opacity of the components.
I really only need to do this on one form in my entire app, so this is getting a little frustrating
I've been researching for about half an hour now, trying to figure out if it's possible, but I'm coming up short.
I've seen some WPF examples and if it really comes to that, I'm more than willing to change the app from a WinForms app to a WPF app. I've made a WPF app before, so I'm familiar with it. But, I don't want to have to remake my entire project for this one form.
On that note, does anyone know if I can make a WPF form how I need it and just import it into a WinForm app? It doesn't seem possible, but it's better to ask than not. I'll look into this more.
setting the form opacity programatically in the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events.The problem isn't with the actual events, the problem is that the events occur in places where I don't want it to happen.So in my project, I have a form with 3 user controls in it. The user controls are docked in the form so no actual space from the form is available to the user.
I have the methods:
Form1_MouseEnter(~) Handles Form1.MouseEnter, UserControl1.MouseEnter, UserControl2.MouseEnter, UserControl3.MouseEnter
Form1_MouseLeave(~) Handles Form1.MouseLeave, UserControl1.MouseLeave, UserControl2.MouseLeave, UserControl3.MouseLeave
when you enter the form, the form opacity is set to 1. And when left, the form opacity is set to 0.7 .However, what happens right now is obviously that when the user changes the mouse position from one user control to another, the form opacity flickers (turns to 0.7 and back to 1 really fast).
I have a MDI form containing 2 other forms that I first created via GUI and than manually added to the MDI form.Form1 = MDI formForm2 = Form containing a WMP and buttonForm3 = Form containing a butoon. This form's opacity is set to 50%, to make it semi invisible.My MDI Form looks like this
Public Class Form1
Dim f As New Form2
Dim g As New Form3
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So what I am trying to do is make it so i can set my forms opacity by the the textboxso if i type ' setop .5 ' then it will set the opacity to 50% depending on what integer I type after the setop.
View 7 RepliesIs it possible to set the opacity of controls separate from the opacity of the main form window? What I want is to be able to set the form window and labels as "see through" (but not invisible) while keeping the data fields fully visible or mostly visible.
For example, form background and labels at 50% opacity and comboboxes and listboxes at 90% opacity.
I searched around google for a couple of hours to see if I could find anything on what I wanted to do.
Needless to say, I didn't find much. Basically, what I want to do is, when my main form loads, I want to load another form that sticks to the desktop but is transparent (Opacity) except for the text I want in it.
The only thing I could find is how to reduce the opacity of the form. I don't want the form to have a border or be able to be moved around by the user. I still want the user to be able to put icons over it, but not mess with it. I also don't want it to show up on the task bar. Kind of like a background in it's own right.
I'm not even sure if a form is what I need to do this. I imagine that it can be done.
*Edit: I found an example of what I want, but I'm going to fill my form with different info [URl]..
Is there anyway of reducing the opacity of a form to 80% but at the same time have my buttons and text boxes to remain unhindered at 100%? When I reduce the opacity of the from the opacity of the text boxes reduce as well. How could I stop this from happening
View 5 RepliesI have a VB.NET form with a red background and white text. I want to change the opacity of the background (not the text) to 50%; how would I go about accomplishing that?
View 1 RepliesHow do I change the panels opacity?
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When I click the button nothing happens. What am I doing wrong here ?
I have a Panel and a button control on windows form. Button is placed behind the Panel. I want to change the opacity of Panel, so that the button control can also be visible. But there is no property of panel control to change the opacity. Is there any way to make the Panel Opaque in this way?
View 1 RepliesI am new at asking questions on this fourm (and at programing V.B.) so if I make any mistakesMy question is when displying images on a form is it possible to make them so they start off with 10% opacity and gradualy become solid using a timer?
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