I'm trying to bring a transparent user control (being used as a drawing layer) to the front, over a page that will be playing video.Me.BringToFront() didn't seem to work, and when I tried Me.SetTopLevel(true) in the load, this gave me an InvalidOperationException. Here's what I have so far, sorry for the commented lines.. lots of trial and error (I'm very new, just an intern at the moment)[code]
View 3 RepliesI am working with graphic methods. I am trying to create a piano using brushes, pens, and rectangles. I have 14 white keys and started making the black keys. For some reason I cant get the black keys to overlap the white ones. Is there a command to send the black rectangles to the front?
View 6 RepliesI'm pretty much out of ideas here... for everything else, setting the background color to Color.Transparent or setting the TransparencyKey works fine...
I have an mp4 Video which I need to play as a "background" of my form. To do this, I'm currently using the WMP control. My problem: I can't add any controls on top of it, since they always render a background. Which looks ** on the video...
I have code for make the usercontrol transparent:
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As CreateParams
Get
Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams
cp.ExStyle = cp.ExStyle Or &H20
'WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
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These code shows the usercontrol transparent. But when the control moves I see that these control needs time to be transparent or drawing an image. Why so many time(maybe 2 seconds)? And why I can't use directions keys on keydown event? (The arrow keys are ignored).
I'm making a software where I need to have a transparent background in my form and then 50% transparent control. I don't know how to make the control 50% transparent without getting the back color from the form as back color.
View 3 RepliesMe again. I also have a png image and a web cam video in my form. I have transparent parts on the png image that show through to the form background colour.
How do I set it so it shows the video in the background, when I put the png image over the top of the video?
At the moment its still shows straight through to the back of the form?
I'm kinda new to this. Done it a bit a while back, completed a simple conversation program, and started a text game..but decided to take it back up and make a new interaction fiction game with videos.. the thing I'm having a problem with right now is the windows media player control. I make my first intro movie play by placing it's location in the URL property...I'm wondering how you would code it to play the second intro video I have once that one comes to an end.. I may just put the two videos together to make this easier.
View 10 RepliesHere's my situation: I have a control with motion graphics (for the sake of simplicity, a 'video player' control) in my project. Think of a PictureBox with constantly-changing images. In front of this will sit a second control (such as a second PictureBox of the same dimensions). The topmost PictureBox will be drawn to in its Paint event.
I need to draw very few elements, and the bottom control is updated much more frequently than I need for this drawing. So these elements are drawn to the topmost control. Think of a news broadcast, where they have live video in the background, with a news channel logo, news ticker, and sometimes gradient visible in front.
I'm trying to create that 'foreground' control, and the closest I believe I have gotten so far is the following:
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D
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The 'Opacity' property in the code above is a sort of "scaling factor." The image drawn to the top control may, in different parts of the image, have any alpha value from full transparent to a full 255. This 'Opacity' property is applied to the entire image being drawn, scaling the alpha values of each pixel.
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I have created a program that forms in a panel will be shown (control add). But how can I run-time form an over all other forms when I bring the number of the control panel in the know?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to make a label control transparent over a Panel control.However by setting the background colour of the label to Transparent, it actually sees right through to the form itself, not the panel as intended.
As an example we use a panel with a background as white, we make the label transparent, however it gets the form�s colour as blue.However, we are using a custom panel control and need the label to be transparent over the panel and not see the forms background.
I'm trying to make a label control transparent over a Panel control. However by setting the background colour of the label to Transparent, it actually sees right through to the form itself, not the panel as intended.
As an example we use a panel with a background as white, we make the label transparent, however it gets the forms colour as blue. However, we are using a custom panel control and need the label to be transparent over the panel and not see the forms background. Is this possible?
I'm trying to make a label control transparent over a Panel control. However by setting the background colour of the label to Transparent, it actually sees right through to the form itself, not the panel as intended.
As an example we use a panel with a background as white, we make the label transparent, however it gets the forms colour as blue. However, we are using a custom panel control and need the label to be transparent over the panel and not see the forms background.
I have successfully ported a VB6 application to VB.NET (VS2008, .NET 2.0). Much optimization and rewriting has been done, but there is one possible BUG i cannot overcome. I have a standard HSCROLLBAR control used for accepting a numeric input. The control needs to be disabled during complex computational routines to prevent additional user input. I am setting the enabled property to false and reenabling the control at the end of the calculation cycle. The control is enabled and disabled a few times, because some code has been placed in the onpaint event of a drawing area, and separating the calculation part from the drawing part will be a huge task.
Large changes are handled correctly. Small changes aren't. The problem is that the control freezes in a unknown state after clicking on the arrows. A second click makes the control (and its parent control box) jump up and over everything else in their container.The scrollbar remains functional only via the contextual menu. This happens both in debug and release builds. There are no overrides. Coding/Test platform XP SP3 (more than 1 machine).
There is no code whatsoever that handles neither the parent control nor the scrollbar repositioning and resizing. The only code takes the value of the scrollbar and passes to the calculation section. If I omit disabling and reenabling the control, everything works fine.i tried rebuilding the control from scratch. forcing enabling the control after it has gone haywire does not make changes, disabling the groupbox instead of the single control doesn't make any difference, debugging step by step confirms that things go wrong when drawing the controls within the private system form classes.
Is it possible to customize the tab control such as insert an image in front of the text or increase the size of the tabs?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a web style button with user control. I need to make User Control's background transparent. How to do this without making controls invisible. Also I'll need transparent Label and PictureBox.
Trying to make something like this:
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, true);
this.BackColor = Color.Transparent;
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I have been looking in a lot web site and forums trying to find the way to make my picturebox background transparent or catch whatever I drew on top of a transparent panel, let's explain it.
Case 1-) I trying to make an app, where the user can load onto the winform a word document(I have part this ready), then I put on top of the control where the doc. is loaded a transparent panel(this part is ready too) and the user can sing (on top the panel) then I need to get the user's draw(sing) and print it in the document.
Every time that I try to do it always I get everything that is within the panel area, then I just want the user's sing.
case 2-) I tried to use a picturebox then it works perfect, I can get just the user's sing and print it back in the document, but the problem is, I can't put a picturebox on top of the control where the doc. is loaded because then I can't see the doc.
If anybody wants to see the code to make the panel transparent, or catch whatever you draw on top the pictureBox.
I am creating a medical record system using MS Access 2007. the finish product will be used for a small healthcare which has only one available pc for now i ve done all required tables and some queries. What I really want to do is to design the forms where user can access information using VB 2010. I ve read tutorials online about how to connect dataabase to vb and successfully did that.
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I did some research on how to make transparent User Control, The suggested code was like this:
Private Sub New()
' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.
Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, True)
Me.BackColor = Color.Transparent
UpdateStyles()
End Sub
When I build the project, there is no errors. But, When I try to load my user control using the "Choose ToolBox Items" dialog, it gives me the following error message:
"There is no components in [dll path] that can be placed on the toolbox."
Im working on in VB.net. Basically I�m trying to create a nice looking control that draws several PNG images (stars in this example) that light up as you hover the cursor over them. This side of things is working perfectly (see picture 1).
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The problem is trying to make it work using a transparent background for the control. I can make the control transparent by setting the controls back color and using Me.Setstyle to enable transparency support, but every time the image refreshes to show any lit stars it repaints over the stars again � making the shaded areas darker each time. This results in a horrible mess (see picture 2).
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Next I tried to clear the background each time a repaint occurs so that the stars are drawn on a blank canvas each time to stop this problem. The only way I know how to do this is to use graphics.clear(Color.Transparent) before my code to paint the star images. But this does not work as the control shows a black background instead of a transparent one (see picture 3)!
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away the background to leave me with a transparent canvas to paint images onto? And is anyone smart enough to come up with a solution to this irritating issue?
I am looking for a VB control that operates as a more or less transparent or semi-transparent ruler or bar that can be scrolled up and down the form over an invoice or letter, so that the user can see what is under the ruler/bar and thus stop scrolling when he reaches a certain point.
To give a bit more detail of what I am looking for - such a bar is used when someone is setting the focus on a line of a long list of items so that they know where they are all the time. Most people would use a ruler on a paper list to keep track of how far they have progressed down the list. It would be nice though to have the "ruler" or bar as semi-transparent so that the user can see under where he is at on the list or form.
i know that VB.net and above don't use true transparency(and maybe true opacy) except forms, but even them have 1 visual bug. because if the we put the backcolor igual to transparent key, the picturebox is transparent... but give us a form hole.i found several codes that do transparency, but i see 1 problem on them, because the control needs time to be transparent.[code]some codes(that i founded on internet) are diferent but give us the same result.can anyone explain to me why the control needs so many time to show transparent?(i have tested using the keyboard to move the control, and i see the control is like visible and then hide and then visible. and if i continue click on key, the control isn't showed until i release the key)
View 7 RepliesIs there a way I can hook into MSN and write to my contacts, without having the conversation window in the front? a API or something?
View 2 RepliesI'm back, and now with a great problem...I need to put a TrackBar in my application, in a Panel with an ImageBackGround... but the TrackBar doesn't work with Transparent Background...Now I want to build my own TrackBar Control, but support the Transparent Background...I read in some page that I need to use CustomDraw... to customize te aparience of my TrackBar... but I can't undertand how..
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to create a simple transparent PANEL control. I want to create a custom control based on the existing Panel Control with a property added called "transparent" which can be set to true or false. If it's set to true it's transparent(not invisible). So if I place it over some controls in a form say a button or text box... they are visible but disabled.
View 2 RepliesI have transparent form with a panel on it also set with a transparent background so you can see rite through it
what im trying to do is when you put the mouse over the panel it displays a picture and when the mouse leaves the picture goes away..the problem is that it doesnt detect the mouse when its over the panel. if i make the form background non-transparent it detects it just fine but i need it to work when both the form and panel are transparent
I am working on my game maker and I need to make it so that a picturebox with a transparent image will show the control behind it, like if the control has a image or just a color.
View 12 RepliesI am trying to use a background image for one of my programs and I get this error when I try to make the BackColor Transparent. It allows me to use the Background image I want but I get this error when I try to change the BackColor to Transparent. A Box pops up that says "Property value is not valid.", then when I click Details, it says "Control does not support transparent background colors."
View 9 RepliesI am attempting to write a simple 11ball style game. It requires images of poolballs overlapping each other. Since the balls will need some internal intelligence I was hoping to create them as usercontrols.I am having trouble gettiing the control's background to be transparent.Setting the background color to (Web) transparent only makes the background clone the form background color.
View 1 RepliesHow do I control the video quality on flash using with the trackbar?
View 12 RepliesI'm trying to run a video in a windows media control, like I had before, but for some reason it's not working. I'm not sure why either. As far as I can see I'm doing everything the same as I had for the first video..
first this code runs..
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