C# - How To Create A Simple Glass Effect
Jul 12, 2010
I am currently painting a light blue, partly transparent overlay over owner-drawn objects to indicate certain state. It's OK but I thought that it would be even nicer if I could at some sort of glass effect to further establish the idea that the particular object has "something" overlaid over the top of it.
I thought that some glass streaks, for example, in addition to the blue transparency would lend a nice effect.I've Googled around for GDI+ (and others) algorithms to do simple things painting like this but have come up empty. I prefer .NET but can figure out the painting from pseudo-code on up.
Sorry, shoul've also specified that I need to target WinXP and using .NET version 2.0 - So unable to use WPF or Vista/Win7 goodies.
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Mar 30, 2010
I would like to know if it possible to create an effect of magnifying glass for the picturebox, so I could see the other controls behind the picturebox which make them looks like a glass?
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Mar 31, 2012
is there a way to have that aero glass effect using XP Pro when creating forms and please give me walk thru on this. I want to have that look on all my forms.
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Mar 14, 2012
how to add glass effect to a win forms in vb.net or c# I looked a lot of examples like using e.graphics to make a square with the win form dimension and others are done really good without any e.graphics trick. But my problem is that I didn't look any example that uses windows controls like buttons, labels, dropdowns, etc on a glass effect win form.
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Dec 9, 2011
I had set my form initially load in aero glass effect.Then i want let the user can choose solid colour or aero glass effect.Wat should i put in my coding to let the form can become solid colour?
<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
Public Structure MARGINS
Public cxLeftWidth As Integer
Public cxRightWidth As Integer
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Aug 22, 2011
I have enabled the glass effect to Windows Forms in Visual Basic 2010. When I drop controls, they are not displaying well as usual. Whats is wrong with this?Image:
Texts are displaying only front of Black color.
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May 13, 2009
I've successfully used DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea from dwmapi.dll. It adds glass to about 40 pixels down from the top, and 40 pixels up from the bottom. I can put a button on the glass and either set it's background color to transparent or it's UseCompatibleTextRendering = True so that is displays correctly on the glass (the middle part of the form is a regular form, I can put controls there fine). Now, here's my problem... I want to put a search text box at the top right hand section of the form on the glass (similiar to IE and other wizard like glass forms that have search boxes integrated). Also, this is a WinForm.
The problem:The glass effect causes any text in the text box to be transparent, I need to know how to get around it so the text box is always opaque.
What I've tried:
1.) Manually drawing the transparent color over the form in the Paint event, skipping the section where the text box is located (doesn't work).
2.) Change the color of the text in the text box so it's not black (since black triggers the glass effect). I couldn't get the glass to work at all with any color other than black (even when I set the form's transparcy key to another color).
3.) I've read and followed every FAQ / instruction list I could get my hands on to no avail (most were from 2006 before Vista in production).
4.) I've looked with UI Spy at the text box in the IE glass section, and that text box has a background color of transparent (which I tried and the .Net textbox/richtextbox don't allow you to set a background color of transparent)
I've read that you can create a custom control and custom draw it to be opaque, but I'm not sure where to start with that (I can make custom controls, but as per drawing them myself I need a little direction).
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Jun 23, 2009
how to extend glass to program that not using glass like Zune software V 1.
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Apr 13, 2010
How can I create a form with no title bar, but still have a glass border just like the Volume, Power Options, or Network windows have when you click on their icons in the system tray.[code]...
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Feb 23, 2010
I have to create a slot machine. i have 3 picture boxes and i need to know how the program can randomly select from the 7 pictures i have but still create a short delay where there is the effect of spinning. my teacher said that it would be easy to assign each picture a number but i didnt get what he means.
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Sep 6, 2011
I have a problem. I use this code for move form:
'Declare the variables
Dim drag As Boolean
Dim mousex As Integer
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Oct 1, 2010
I'm trying to replicate the Gmail Notifier popup.It both fades in (Opacity) and raises from the start bar.
I've managed to do the fade inout using a timer and opacity but how do I:
A) make the form appear to 'pop up'? (I think its height grows via a timer from 0 to it's max?
B) Locate it's start point exactly above the task bar as pictured on all screen resolutionsWindows flavours?
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Jun 20, 2012
I want to make typewriter effect like: [URL]
dim s as string = "123"
label1.text = s.substring(0,1)
WAIT
label1.text = s.substring(0,2)
WAIT
label1.text = s.substring(0,3)
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Aug 13, 2009
I have tried to Google some information or tutorial on how to create a page turning (flip) visual effects in VB2008 with no real luck.
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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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Aug 25, 2009
I'm trying to create a shaped form with an attractive shadow effect by painting progressive alpha blended layers underneath the main visible form area (a background mask color has also been set to allow a shaped form). This is going well, but I have one major problem to resolve - the bottom shadow layer does not appear as the correct transparent shade - it always appears solidly as the background color / transparent mask color for the form.
Why does this bottom shadow layer not show up as transparent, and why is this color being shown when it is set as the transparency key for the form (and so should be invisible anyway)???[URL]..
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May 27, 2009
I'm wondering, is it possible to create a (REALLY) simple web server in VB.NET? I may be wrong, but don't you essentially just need a listener for port 80 and a way to send pages to the client?
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Jan 4, 2012
Im trying to create a program with a simple gui that enables me to search for and select parent folders containing child folders containing multiple files and then validate those files based off of constants i set per child folder and file.
Example
User selects Parent FolderX
Parent FolderX > (ChildFolder1 ( Constant for ChildFolder1 says open file 4 ) > File 4
Compare multiple strings of text in a specific order based off of file name to constants i have set for that named file Then continue to ChildFolder2 ( Constant for ChildFolder2 says open file 16 ) > File 16 Compare multiple strings of text in a specific order based off of file name to constants i have set for that named file If there is any constants not read in one of the files after all have been checked, return msgbox with a notification and write .txt log with child folder and file names to specified directory?
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Mar 2, 2011
My professor said that if I create a cleverbot she will give me a high grade but the problem is I only have 2 weeks to do it. Please help me, i can connect vb 2008 to ms access ( i think i will need it)[code]...
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Oct 31, 2009
I just want to be able to click on a commandbutton, menu_item, or maybe even a wizard at program install time, to make the database from scratch.
1) I do not care what type of database it is it is as long as it will run on any pc machine without having other programs installed except the one im creating.
2) I do not want to use access or the designers to create the database either
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Apr 22, 2012
I apologize if this question is something of the most simple, but I'm not even sure what terms I should use to search. What I'm trying to do is create a 'Sub' that will do something when I call it in another Sub, however I am unsure in how I would pass variables from one another. Here is what I have;
Private Sub Log
LogBox.AppendText(logstuff & vbNewLine)
End Sub
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Sep 23, 2007
I am a beginer and I am trying to create a simple web browser using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.
Public Class Form2
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
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As you can see from the above code I do not have forward, back and stop buttons. Thats because I do not need them. The browser will be configured to go to a certain website directly.
What I need is this browser should be configured to use specific JRE. That is the browser should use ONLY JRE 1.3.1 or ONLY JRE 1.4.2
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Dec 18, 2010
today I attempted to create a simple application using codedom.Basically I want to be able to compile a messagebox with the custom text entered in the builder.
This is what I have so far.
ICompiler.vb Class "Codedom" Class and in my main form "the builder I have this
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If no one could help me perhaps does anyone have a simple source example?
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Apr 20, 2010
I wanted to create a simple application which has 2 forms.the first one contains a combobox which has the list of names of reports.now i select this report and click on next which takes me to the 2nd form.there i have to enter 4 values(or parameters)like the date from and date to and other 2 values...using these 5 values i want to retrieve the respective reports from the archive folder based on these parameters...i just know how to select and move to the second form from the first..how do i achieve my goal of retrieving the pdf files.i want the result in a table form which will have column names of the parameters i pass and the last column with the report pdfs.
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Mar 29, 2011
I want to create a simple calculator using only 1 textbox , 1 button and 1 label, but I don't know how to create the code.
for example if i write : 53+35-33=
and if i press the button it will calculate and the answer the label will show the answer (55).
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Nov 21, 2011
My assignment this week is to create a simple cash register. The kicker here is that I have to have an input box pop up to accept the data. I know I need to use a Do Loop here, but I' not sure what the proper condition should be. Hitting cancel on the input box or inputting nothing ought to terminate the loop.
Private Sub btnCheckout_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCheckout.Click
Static decPrice As Decimal
Static intCount As Integer
Static decSub As Decimal
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Oct 25, 2008
i want to create a simple clock with different time than PC.I mean to say that application will as a user to input time in HH:MM:SS format and after it is submitted clock start from that time.
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Jun 3, 2010
how to create a simple controllable 3d cube? I think the code should go in the form.paint area, but i dont know what exactly to put..
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Jun 25, 2010
I want to create a new module in DNN (VB) ... that;
1. does not use DAL or DAL+
2. has only one view.ascx control
3. It has to be a compiled module
I do not need DB connectivity and any bells and whistles just one view control. I thought it would be simple but googling for a day now and it seems very complicated.
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Apr 26, 2012
I am trying to create a simple DVD Player with Visual Basic 2008 (Express). But I am trying to find this item for the Toolbox-"MSWebDVD".
Does anybody have, like a download link to get it for VB 2008? If you do provide me with a download link, then I would kindly ask to tell me on how to apply it.
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