[DUG] Transparent Forms

[Wayne Roser]

a) What a cheek! Who would dare to want the background to change? Bl**dy users! They're bl**dy
lucky we let them keep their other processes running at all. We should have held the line at single
processing.

b) Talking about clayton's transparent forms, why don't you make your transparent bitmap happen to
set every pixel in the region, call it "transparent like a not very transparent thing", and then
the movement at the back won't be missed, or rather it will be missed but it'll be missed so much
that no one misses it.

Wayne

PS Can anyone tell me how to get people to buy my software - I'm finding it hard to give away.

NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz> on Thursday, 30 March 2006 at 1:57
p.m. +0000 wrote:
>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?
>