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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Not sure if this applies for your
case, but when I wrote the ATClock (transparent analogue clock) I used a form
with no borders, the form colour set to be white, white set to be transparent
(Alphablend about 80-120) and put some shapes of a different colour where I
wanted partial transparency. (form TransparentColor and
TransparentColorValue properties). Result - the square form totally
disappears.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>(I also set the form to be moveable
by dragging on any non-transparent part, and did the hands using just canvas
draw - and to my pleasant surprise dragging on the hands also could drag the
clock too).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>This works D2006 and D2007, and runs
fine on XP and later.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I am guessing you could do something
like this by setting the colour of the panel appropriately. <FONT
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Looks like TPanel does not have these
properties, but it does have a ParentColor property, so you may be able to do
something by cleverly setting the parent form properties.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV></BODY></HTML>