how I could make a custom form, by setting the FormBorderStyle to None, and making it transpatent without setting the TransparencyKey to a color...
Because when you set the TransparencyKey property to, let's say 121; 121; 121, and it got a button which got the same color on the ForeColor, and then it disapears...
Here's an example of how it looks like when the form is transparent:
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I have a custom shaped form with a transparency key of black. With the opacity set to 100%, I do not see the garbage around my custom shaped form As soon as I change the opacity, I see a transparent square(my borderless form) around my form.
How do I make it where my form retains its custom shape, and can have an opacity of less than 100%?
If you want something you've never had, you need to do something you've never done.
I have need for a customised form as the main page of my app, what I'm looking for is to create an amoebic shaped form, something like this. I realize that my 'window' will by nature need to be rectangular and that i will need it to have no titlebar and transparent edges, also i will need to have 'regions' on this form that will allow the form to be closed and turned into a standard rectangular form. I have no idea where to begin with doing this but I hope and presume it is possible with vb.net. The image I have used is for illustrative purposes only, i don't plan to do exactly this (my app is a database not a media player for one thing) If having it is a breach of copyright in this context I will remove it.
View 39 RepliesI use a lot of picture box, label, and custom controls, all of which are oddly-shaped, and must overlap. In almost all cases, the backgrounds are not solid colored.I am using transparent .png images for the background images of many of these controls (except labels), and using transparent as the backcolor, creating a custom shaped control. However, when these controls overlap, the one towards the front will not show any controls behind it through the "transparent" background. This is getting annoying, because I cannot use any alternate object arrangements.How do I create true custom-shaped forms?
P.S. Some of my controls have extremely irregular shapes, so using simple line and curve drawing functions is probably not an option.
I wanna make a control of round shaped with a pointer on that which I can move around. In my program I have volume control. Now, I am using track bar to control the volume. But, customer is asking some nice control rounded shaped with a pointer which will move around the control. How can I do this?
View 11 RepliesI tried it every way I can think off, but nothing can stop it .
View 7 RepliesSomeone please explain this to me like you would to a complete idiot.I want to make a shaped form according to an image.The transparency key only works under 16 bit graphics and we all work on 32bit. Then the entire background shows.The clipping is also very un-neat.So how do you shape a form neatly according to an image WITHOUT using transparency key so it will work in all graphic modes?
View 5 Repliesis it possible to make the edges on a form rounded rather than a sharp edge?
View 2 RepliesIs there a way in vs2010 (vb.net) to create a form that has alpha transparency support?
And
How do i get a form similar to the splash screen in vs2010 AKA odd shaped and alpha drop shadowed?
How do I make the edges of a non rectangular form in vb.net (2010) to be smooth. I have used regions and transparency key to create the form cut out but the edges
View 2 RepliesI tried to skin my application and failed. I can get it to work if I don�t have semi transparent pixels on the outside of my form. But I want to use a skin I found on Deviant art that was made for Miranda. It is really nice but and it has a shadow around it. To get it to work in vb.net (I�m using 2005 btw) I have to fill around the main picture and take out the initializing (I think that is what it is called). But then the form�s edges are choppy. How does Miranda allow the shadows but I can�t in vb.net?
I first tried to do it the easy way. I set up some transparent panels with transparent pictureboxes in them and put my corners and middle fills as the backgrounds. I made the form with no border and set the transparent key to transparent. That didn�t work, so I made the form magenta and the transparent key magenta. The outside of the for where the shadow is was drawn on the magenta and the magenta bled through. So I edited the png�s to be magenta all around the form (eliminating the shadows) and it worked, but the corners were choppy.
Then tried some code I found on the net that tried to make a new control as a transparent panel. It was overriding the paint events and drawing to an off screen bitmap. I really didn't understand it and it just showed up as a blank screen. There has to be a way to do this.
How would I achieve a drop shadow effect around all edges of my Form?
View 9 RepliesI have been working on a windows form over the last couple days and I have hit a brick wall when trying to move my controls.
I think I have basic understanding of anchoring and docking but I'm not getting the results I'm hoping for so I have attached some screen shots of what I'm trying to do.
It's not about re-sizing more about moving the controls to the outer edges when my form is maximized.
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I have multiple forms within a form, typically up to 16, and I want these "inside" forms to snap all edges between eachother or the parent form edges, when a form is resized or moved, and edge comes within x pixels of any other edge.How should I approach this? What I can think of is to raise an event on the form that is moved/resized which calls a parent form handler method that loops through all the forms, check the edges and then keeps fixing (repositioning) the active form if any of its edges is close to any other form edge
View 3 RepliesI'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]..
I've wanted to know the answer to this question for a long time but I never really took the time to ask anyone. My question is, why do rounded edges or drop shadows of transparent form layouts turn white. Take a look at the following image to know what I'm talking about.
View 3 Replieshow can i make a custom form like this? [URL]
View 4 RepliesI wanted to know how you could make your own custom form border style.
View 4 RepliesI'm new to programming so I would like to know if is there any tutorial about how to make a custom skin for VB .Net 2008 and apply it to a form!?
View 10 RepliesHere is a link to the file.http:[url]......Click on ITEC 1310 and then click on animation.exe
i am having is how to make the box no go past the given boundary. I have figured out how to move the box but am not sure how to make it "bounce" off the edges of the box.
Cookies to be stored in folder and on close delete the cookies The ability to watch youtube vids, view images, and play js/flash games good security, no ads?
View 6 RepliesHow can i draw a random sized + shaped triangle, centered in my picturebox?
heres the code i wrote, but it draws them too big + off the screen or too small. how can i draw medium sized triangles centred in my picturebox?[code]...
I did not really want to create as what i am showing in the second picture. What i actually wanted is to draw a curved (maybe a porsche, ferarri , or a lamboghini). Can i know how to draw curves along the edges ?
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to make a program that runs programs using image analysis. It will Recognize images on screen so that they can be clicked. Well when i was working on it i had an ideal. I could get the edges of the screen/window i'm using. Make a calculation to grid off areas of parts of the screen. Making the program not have to process the entire screen every time. So that it only has to call to process a grided off zone.
How every i dont know how to get the edges of the screen/window. Could some one link info on how to do it or give some code snippits. Thx for an info that you give.
I'm trying to do for a website. I've got a header banner that is 900px wide, and I want to display 4 random images across the banner. (I've got about 20 photos at this point, and I want the header to select from them.) I can get the code for the random selection, but what I'm looking for is a way to blend about 10 pixels near the overlap. If I have each picture exactly 225px wide, I get a "hard" line between the images. I'd like to make the images a little bit wider and soften the edge by overlapping and blending the images together. I have figured out how to get the image back to the web browser, but I don't even know where to start on trying to figure out the blending. Graphics really aren't my thing.
View 2 RepliesMy report is an image in a picturebox. I want it so if the user clicks on it it will zoom larger --- while the picturebox remains the same size. That's important. The examples I've found for picturebox zooming cause the picturebox to get bigger and smaller. I need it to be like an Access report. Click on the report and it gets bigger. Click again and it goes back to the full image. Of cours when you're zoomed in, the perimeter of the report is not visible. So I'd like to be able to drag the image as well so the unseen portions can be seen.
View 20 Repliesurl...it doesn't do very much for images without text. I am specifically trying to auto deskew an image of a book with solid edges, but minimal text.
View 1 Repliesi am drawing a string to a graphics object in the eg below and then transfering it onto a e.graphics in the paint event of a panel... when doing this the font edges appear dodgey...
Here is some
Dim b As New Bitmap(100, 100)
Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b)
g.DrawString("Bla Bla Bla", New Font("Comic Sans MS", 18,FontStyle.Bold), New LinearGradientBrush(g.ClipBounds, Color.Red,
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Is it possible to make a "Custom.Custom"? Example:
Custom.Custom1 = "1"
Custom.Custom2 = "2"
and
MessageBox.Show(Custom.Custom2)
Would show "2"
Do you know of any tutorial that could help me make a custom button in vb.net. Because visual studio 2008 doesn't allow you to create buttons in circle or triangular shapes. I've tried searching and found this one but, I cannot make use of it because there are lots of errors.url...
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