VS 2010 Transparent Black Overlay?
Feb 3, 2012
When the dialog pops up, the screen dims down almost as if they overlapped the screen with a transparent black layer of some sort. This is easily accomplish able by creating a black form and having its opacity set to half and starting it maximized-which I'm already doing. The problem with this though is I need to do this within a form, so using a panel or anything is out of the questions since transparency really grabs the background image and not the actual controls underneath. Plus I feel if adding a form to another forms controls depletes it's ability to use it's opacity property.The form I need this in is my cash register. It is full screen but if my menu auto hides it still resizes. It has two parts, the order(panel to the left) and the payments(panel to the right). As you could imagine I want the payments portion blacked out until the order is capable of accepting payments(the payment due is greater than 0). Or I'm thinking it fallows the mouse, you mouse over the payments and the orders panel blacks out, and vice verse.
Plus I have tried googling this but no one seems to have the answer on other forums.. Everyone gets confused and the thread ends short with no solution. Apparently though experts-exchange has the answer, but wants me to pay... so no. Wish their site would stop showing up in my google results.But did have an idea of what I could do. My best guess was I could take a snap shot of just the panel I want to black out. Set it as the background image for that panel THEN use my overlay panel(back color sent to black) overlapping the appropriate section with it's transparency set to half.. But still I'm not sure how to take a snap shot of just a particular.control..
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Jan 14, 2010
I'm working on a UserControl which has two PictureBoxes.One has the picture I want to display to the user and the other has a picture that I use as an overlay.The overlay PictureBox uses a PNG image with a transparent background. However, every time I run the UserControl, the overlay does not display the transparent parts of the PNG image as transparent (It appears white).
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Aug 6, 2009
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?
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Feb 8, 2009
I have a form with transparent background (using png file).All controls placed over it becomes black at start then they change there color and comes to there original state on MouseHover. Its not the transparency keys problems since the transparency key color is different that controls back color. What can be the problem?
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Oct 17, 2010
Is there a way that I can make the screen go black slowly, then brigther? To make sure you get me, Watch this MapleStory video and turn to 0:10. [URL]You see it goes black.. and then brigther?How do I do that?
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Apr 27, 2012
My application allows users to specify a logo. When they choose the logo I need to scale the image to accommodate my application's use. Everything works great except for transparent GIFs, the transparency is not preserved and it is converted to BLACK. Here is my
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How can a preserve an image's transparency if applicable?
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Jul 28, 2011
I've been testing an application I'm working on in Windows 7, Vista and XP. If I'm using XP then I get a couple of solid black blocks after the items listed in the ListBox. They are absent when running the same application in Vista or 7. I have the enable application framework checkbox unchecked. I haven't tried changing that to see if it makes a difference.
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May 30, 2012
This is a very basic question, I have a parent form and a child form and both window state are set to maximize, would it be possible to remove the toolbar at the top? I have tried most thing like setting the form border style to none on the child form but still I get two tool bars. I would like to remove the tool bar in the black square
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Oct 27, 2010
[code] how to make the part that drops down semi-transparent or completely transparent resembling floating text. So that I can see the form underneath.
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Apr 12, 2010
I know that this question has already been asked million of times, but until now I haven't found a WORKING way to make this to work.I've a Media Player control, and in front of it (for a logo thing), I have a PictureBox, that I want to make transparent. I've tried million of things, but couldn't get it to work.
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Feb 5, 2011
how can I make my Form background color transparent?just the form those object/text are not included.
I watched this in yout*** like a month ago, i keep on searching but i cannot find.if you want to be happy, find something you love to do and do it for free, then find someone to pay you for it.
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May 2, 2011
I'm having problems with flickering well using transparent TableLayoutPanels. I have a label that I'm using as a count down, it's anchored to all 4 sides inside a TLP and when the numbers inside the label box change it causes a white flicker inside the TLP.I'm also getting a lot of flickering when the programs first opens.url...
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Dec 28, 2010
I made a lot of letters, and I set all of thiers background color to Transpert. I STILL don't see any transperancy, because when I put "one letter on the other one", i can see thier background.
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Aug 8, 2011
I'm doing a new interface for my app and I'm using MDI forms. On the parent form I want some objects like Labels and ToolStrips with Transparent BackColor but even when I change the MDI Client BackColor to Color.Whatever or the BackgroundImage and apply a Transparent Object it just doesn't get the color behind it but gets DarkGray instead .
I changed the MDIClient.BackColor with: Me.Controls.OfType(Of MdiClient).First().BackColor = Color.Red
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May 5, 2012
is it possible to make one picturebox transparent, so you see the picturebox' picture underneath it?
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May 10, 2010
I'm using a rectangle shape with gradient fill, i wanted to write some text on it using a label and set the labels backcolor to transparent, but does not work.
Anyone know if a workaround is possible?
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Feb 15, 2011
Okay, I'm making a fresh start and re-exploring my options. I'm trying to put a layer of transparency over a program that will act as a drawing layer. The cursor should be able to sniff to see whether it's sitting on transparency, or a drawn object. Transparency it will click through, while clicking on a drawn object will enable the user to edit said drawn object.
I've been trying to do this using a user control I made from scratch, but this is starting to look more and more like a dead end the deeper I get into it. Currently the layer of transparency works, along with the cursor sniffing, but the user control refuses to be brought to the front.
Any ideas on other ways to go about this / ways to make the user control work?
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Apr 12, 2011
I'm playing with some new UI for one of my projects. I have created a digital display board in Photoshop and added a Picturebox in my VB project and used that image in it.But what I want to do is, I'll be displaying some text above that image. When I tried placing a LabelBox and setting it's BackColor to Transparent, doesn't work !
The text in the LabelBox will be changing each second. So, what I'm doing is using a Timer control with 1000 as interval and displaying the text.What will be the solution ? Do I have to draw the text on the picturebox on Paint event ?
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Mar 7, 2008
Question:Is it possible to make a userform transparent but have non-transparent controls?I notice changing the opacity of the userform will change the opacity of controls embedded on it.
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Mar 19, 2012
I have code for make the usercontrol transparent:
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As CreateParams
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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).
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Dec 10, 2011
I have a little "designing" problem in VB 2010. So, I made a cool abstract background for my application in Photoshop. And I wanted to make the form transparent and BorderLess. But, in order to imitate Windows, I also had to put in a very small black outer glow. So, I made the BackColor in a DarkGreen, then the same for the TranksparencyKey. BUT, because of the outer glow, now it looks like this:
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Jan 30, 2012
I have a form, and the background color of the form is set to the transparency key, making the background of the form transparent. The problem I'm having, is that the form cannot recognize the MouseClick event (when I click on the transparent background of the form). I figured out that the transparent background is triggering this problem. When I shut off the transparency, everything works fine.My question is.. Is there any work around? I still need to use the form to be able to access certain objects that are rendering there, so I don't think I could use something like a "Panel" for example, because the objects will render underneath and possibly make them inaccessible.
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Mar 10, 2011
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.
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Jun 24, 2011
I know you can make certain parts of a form transparent by setting the transparencyKey of the form to the color of your choice.
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Me.MdiParent.TransparencyKey = Color.Fuchsia
Me.BackColor = Color.Fuchsia
Once I set the form to be a MDI Container, it seems to just ignore that function.
On my MDI Container form I have a menu and that is the only thing I want displayed. I want the container itself to be transparent. The forms that get loaded into the mdicontainer will be shown normal.
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Jan 7, 2012
Is it possible in VB 2010 that you can make an "App" on the desktop.Attached Image:This image is made in photoshop, but as its show at the picture, this is how it should work like in VB. Where you can see through the "battery glass". i have tried with"Opacity" and "TransparencyKey", they do not work for what I want.
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Oct 28, 2009
I'm having problems making an image properly "transparent"
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Private Sub PictureBox1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Click
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The initial image is Transparent, however, once you create another image very close to it, there is a "box" around it. That "box" is what I am trying to get rid of. I have no clue on how to get rid of it. Yes, I have made the image itself, transparent, as the initial image is transparent. Just any image that makes contact with the other images show the "box".
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Feb 4, 2011
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]
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Jan 24, 2011
I know how to create the Rounded Rectangle, but what i don't know how to do, is make the area outside of the rounded rectangle (the corners) become transparent This is going to be used on a usercontrol, so i really need it to be transparent and not just blend in (ie adapt to the colour of the parent form).
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Oct 28, 2011
First post here, so I have no clue if this is the right place to ask this or not, but it looked like it.
Anyways, what I'm trying to do as an exercise is make a roulette game. I decided it would be best to put my buttons ON the actual table itself, so that the player can click which one he wants to bet on, and it'll bring up an Input Box asking how much he wants to bet, and yeah.
So, I tossed a button on there, set the parent to the picturebox of the roulette table, set the back color to transparent, and got rid of the text. Lo and behold, it's transparent!
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Apr 2, 2010
I have a picturebox in a Windows VB.NET form (not web based). I will be placing images into it from an image control. (Not a problem) I need to paint graphically a tiny solid circle (a colored circle) in a location (varies) on top of this picturebox. I am not finding how to do this in your indexes. I would some instruction on how to do this.
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