[DUG] Transparent Forms

[Alister Christie]

Hmmm, and it the one that seems to work best, although if the background 
changes the form doesn't reflect this.

Does anyone know how to grab what is under a form as a bitmap?

Currently I'm capturing the area under the form before it shows, and 
setting this as the background of the form, then showing it.  I guess I 
could hide the form, capture the background and show it again, but this 
would introduce flickering - can anyone think of anything better?

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington

Richard Vowles wrote:
> The claytons transparency :-) 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> On Behalf Of Rob van der Linde
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 7:39 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Transparent Forms
> 
> It can be done on all windows versions, not just XP:
> 
> 1) Take a screen capture of the screen and store in an offscreen bitmap
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