Win7: Taskbar Thumbnail Image Background Transparency
Mar 7, 2012
I've been playing around with Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews. I've noticed that some Microsoft applications are able to set thumbnail images which have transparency in background. I've been trying all out and not been able to achieve this.
I've set a picturebox control having PNG with transparency as thumbnail preview, doesnt work. I tried creating a new bitmap and loading from Icon file having transparency and setting it as preview but still doesn't work. It keeps showing the background color of the form window.
This is what Microsoft apps are able to acheive:
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Jun 6, 2011
I know the propertys transparency key and opacity. It isnt what I am looking for. I need to have my form to have the same Glass Effect the as win7 does while runing under win7 plataform. Like, if i have glass effect in the top I should have it in the background.
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Dec 13, 2011
i am trying to develop a project for my academics...i.e, windows application s/w... how to get the thumbnail view(in win7 taskbar shows in that manner?) of all applications that are appearing on taskbar with code in vb ..
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Aug 25, 2009
in vb.net 2008 express, is it possible me to specify an image that would be in the background of a taskbar?
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Mar 22, 2010
I am looking for a way to implement a PrograssBar on Application TaskBar item on Windows 7 as you can see in Windows 7 like when copying files! I need to do it with a few lines in Visual Basic .NET 2008. I know there is a Windows API Code Pack by Microsoft but it's a large collection and written in C#. How to do this in VB.NET without using a .dll reference?
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Jul 1, 2010
Hey trying to make a fancy little app here in VB.NET framework 4.I've seen several programs which utilise windows 7's taskbar progressbar, but they have it embedded in the application when i googled and attempted to do this, my program had to lug around 3 extra dlls when its supposed to be a single executable, and highly portable. how can i gain access to the taskbar progressbar without having to drag about these resources?
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Jun 19, 2009
I need to know how to use listview, I'm having trouble using it.What are listviews uses?What can be listed in listview?What cannot be listview?If an image is in listview, will it display a thumbnail of the image?
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Jan 2, 2011
Has anyone else had this problem in VB.Net (I'm using VS 2008)?Basically I have several panels in a form, and the form has one background image (a gradient) while the panels have a different background image for themselves. Now, when I place a couple of labels and a button in the panels, and set the background of the labels to transparent (so that the background image of the panel is shown as the background of the labels in question) while running the application the form and panels kind of "flash" (a very short and fast white flash, like from a camera) the whole window for a couple of seconds (continuously), after which they do several refreshes of their text and background.
The problem only happens in Vista and Windows 7, XP seems to be not affected. Is this fixable? I thought it may be a problem with my display drivers (as it's not happening in my XP installation), but I saw the same problem happen on a video review of my application at CNET, so I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong with the GUI?
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Oct 29, 2009
How can I make a graphic saved in jpeg format turn into a different jpeg? Also, How can I set an invisible background colour?
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Oct 14, 2009
Ive been programming in VB6 for years, i figured its time for an upgrade. Here's what im doing, and what the problem is:
Im loading a bunch of pictures on top of one image. They are all PNG files, and some of the images have transparent edges, and some semi-transparency within the image itself.
So basically, i need to be able to load these images on top of the other images, and still maintain the transparency.
Is this possible in VB08? This is one of the main reasons i moved to 08 from vb6, more things possible including multithreading.
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Feb 24, 2011
I have a system where users can upload PDF documents. Rather than displaying the link to these PDFs as a title link, or a PDF icon link, I would like it to be a thumbnail of the first page of the PDF document.
How can I get a thumbnail image of the first (or any specified) page of a PDF document, using ASP.NET 3.5?
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Oct 13, 2011
I am in search of a way to access a files thumbnail preview and push it to a picturebox on my form. I have the code below that works for jpg files, however it does not work for say a word document's thubnail. displaying the word documents thumbnail in a picturebox would be great!
Dim myBitmap As New Bitmap("C:Doc1.doc", True)
Dim myThumbnail As Image = myBitmap.GetThumbnailImage(40, 40, myCallback, IntPtr.Zero)
PictureBox1.Image = myThumbnail
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Aug 20, 2009
Im looking to create a thumbnail from a jpg image. the image is stored in c: empimage.jpg all im trying to do is create a thumbnail from this and save it in c: emp humbimage.jpg. Ive found a number of C# tutorials and some vb.net ones. Apparently this is a really easy thing to do.
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Apr 16, 2010
If you drag something like a picture in explorer it displays its icon or thumbnail ,can this be achieved in vb.net? ,i have two forms ,form1 is a boarderless form with just a pic box ,now i can drag n drop this to another form with easy. but is thay away to display its thumbnail while dragging said picbox image?
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Mar 11, 2011
Im looking to embed an .exe into my form. An example of what I want to do is the preview area when selecting a screensaver in Windows. It shows a small running preview of the app in the current window. How do I do that in my VB form?
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Jul 11, 2004
I am trying to incorporate in my vbdotnet application a form in which I would like to make a thumbnail from an image. So what I have is two picture boxes, one with the source image and the other with the destination image, I would like to crop the image from picture box 1 and display it on picture box 2, but the way I wan to crop it is not giving the coordinates of the selected area box but to simulate a selection area box in which the mouse can move the box and select the area of the picture to be cropped. This selection area box would give me the coordinates i need in order to proceed the cropping. The problem is I don't know how to create this selection area box. It is like doing the cropping on a graphic design software like Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe photoshop, even paint.
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Aug 6, 2010
Is their a way to run a VB 2008 project in the background and have a taskbar Icon displayed?
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Feb 13, 2012
i created this thumbnail with other programming mothod Test Thumbnail.rar but how can i register it in other windows i tried register it with RegAsm but i don't could register it
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Jul 27, 2009
I have some code that allows the user to browse for an image and then when that image is opened, it is copied to a new directory. This all works fine, but I would like to know if there is a way to create a thumbnail of this image and save it into a subdirectory inside the directory where the original image has already been copied?
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Jul 20, 2009
how you can get image transparency to come through in Visual Basic? Because if you try to put an image with some transparent sections on it on a form, the transparency turns into the form background colour (Though you could change the background image to whatever you want displayed under the image, but that's not the point) and basically I can't find any way to do irregular transparencies.
Alright, that's not very simple. I'll try to give an example:
You have an animated GIF of...say...fireworks. And it has a transparent background. Now say you have a few labels with text in them. When you draw the picturebox over the labels, the text in the labels is covered by the background of the fireworks, even though it's transparent. You can't see the labels. You want to see the fireworks exploding over the text
I can't see any way of getting around this, other than doing it in another program and putting the text and fireworks into one PictureBox. but it would be so convenient if it could work in Visual Basic, because you can control the text the in the labels and keep the animated "fireworks" exploding at the same time without using multiple animated images.
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Oct 23, 2009
I have an image upload facility in my asp.net project, when uploaded a thumbnail of the image is generated and saved to disk. What I would ideally like to do is apply some nice styling effects to this thumbnail image.. similar to the look of the icons on an iPhone.. perhaps a slight gradient, smooth rounded corners, and a border.
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Jul 14, 2011
I have a CheckedListBox and a thumbnail control and I am trying to save and retrieve back the images along with their path.
I need to show their image path in the checked list box which I am able to do but I am unable to get the images.
I want to know how to read Images from the saved text file and display it in the thumbnail control.
Here is the code:
Private Sub LoadProject_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles LoadProject.Click
Using ofdlg As New Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog
[Code].....
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Feb 18, 2011
Background of form: black
background of char, bombs and shrooms: transparent
picbox behind char, bombs and shrooms is regular (marioland)
How can i fix it so the transparent parts dont see form as background but marioland as background?
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Oct 29, 2009
i know how to make a picturebox have a transparent image within it, and i know how to make forms transparent, but what i cant seem to figure out is how to add an image which has transparent parts to a completely transparent form and have it still look nice. you know when you find images which look really good by them selves, but then look really bad when moved to a different background cause they still have the white border (or any other colour border). is there ANY way which i can accomplish removing this border? its almost like the alpha channel that removes the ugly border, when putting the image on the form, is forgotten about and the colour of the forms background fills in the gap..
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Jul 3, 2011
I can't seem to find a way to get the Transparency of the character sprite to work. It always seems to take the background image of the form no matter how I tweak it.
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May 2, 2011
I tried to code using WIA, and it is working fine.But when I tried my codes under Win 7 OS, it failed to capture.It seems that it is only working on XP. I also tried some code sample found here. And still failed under win7.Is there any good link where I can get some info to work with regarding to web cam capture...I tried also Avicap.dll?
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Feb 28, 2009
My app has scrolling images in the background and a picturebox on top. The image in the picturebox has transparent parts. How can It so that the transparent parts show whatever is belo the picture box, not the form background? I have tried taking screenshots and positioning them as background but this just freezes the app.
Dim ScreenSize As Size = New Size(154, 83)
Dim screenGrab As New Bitmap(154, 83)
Dim blank As New Bitmap(100, 300)
[CODE]...
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Sep 8, 2010
Right now I'm drawing a small 16x16 image on the title bar of my window. It works nicely, except for an obnoxious flicker that I cant figure out how to get rid of. I'm simply drawing the image like this:
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
If m.Msg = WM_SIZE Then
wnd_size = New Size(New Point(CInt(m.LParam)))[code]....
Its repainting the entire title bar each time something is changed on it(click, mouseover the corner buttons, etc), and its during the repaint I get the flicker.
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Sep 18, 2009
I can't remember exactly if this is possible or not but what I am attempting I would think should theoretically be possible. I know it is possible in WPF but the company I am working for doesn't want to make the transition just yet. Basically what I want is to use a background image on a form for the background and I have a docked control on the right and left. I have set the background on both of these docked controls to transparent however it is showing the back color rather than the background image. I tried, rather than setting the background image property, to override the onpaintbackground and onpaint events and use e.graphics.draw(picture, me.clientrectangle) but it still seems to just pick up the backcolor as the true transparent background so I'm wondering if it's possible to get it to show the background image through the control rather than the backcolor of the form?
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Feb 19, 2011
what I am trying to accomplish worked with the code in the last thread I posted a while back. I still am using this code, however, I changed the window size to work better and gave it a nicer background for the title screen of my project. Now what I am working on at the moment is making a settings form that has 2 labels. One for "Default" Layout and one for "Plain" layout. When default is at start, the default label is disabled,and when plain layout is clicked, the button is disabled and default button is enabled.Basically, this is a toggle switch for default or plain where if one is enabled, the option for it is disabled and the other is enabled.My problem is that when I switch from Plain back to default, the background Image will not switch back from the plain background color of "control"Here is my code:
Public Class Settings
Private Sub LinkLabel1_LinkClicked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles LinkLabel1.LinkClicked
MiDNiGHT.BackgroundImage = Nothing[code].......
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