[DUG] Transparent Forms

[Kyley Harris]

Well... I already sent a  post showing how to set transparent on a form...
There is no better way than simply making the form transparent. What you
Then draw will appear free floating, so of course if you call fillrect you
Defeat the point. 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2006 1:57 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Transparent Forms

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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