DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A PICTUREBOX TRANSLUCENT

[hankshlump]

I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE A PICTURE BOX "TRANSLUCENT" NOT "TRANSPARENT"
sorry for the caps
i want it so that u can see the textbox behind it and see all the changes in the textbox
if anybody can help DO IT

[Zaf Khan]

If you know how to make the picturebox transparent - your'e half way there, as in translucent images only some of the pixels are visible whilst others are transparent.

Image a chequerboard if you will where all the squares of one colour are transparent and others are not.

DocZaf
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[kedaman]

There's a transparent picturebox control on my homepage

Then you can use the PSet method for every other Pixel to make it look Translucent.

[kedaman]

You cannot pset on a textbox

I know that. But you can PSet on a PictureBox, which is what I said.

[FrancisC]

What does the PSet method do ? And how does it work ?

[kedaman]

Pset plots a single pixel in a specified color, and i won't make your picturebox transculent, you need to cut regions and ****, download my ocx control and use the mask color to set the parts you want to be transculent...

Here is an example of how to use the PSet method.

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    'Set a Blue Pixel at the X and Y Coordinates
    Me.PSet (X, Y), vbBlue
End Sub

[kedaman]

If you still bother to use pset i would suggest to use setpixelv api method instead meg, since psetting will slow down a transculent procedure to the state of uselessness

Declare Function SetPixelV Lib "gdi32" Alias "SetPixelV" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal crColor As Long) As Long
'To use
SetPixelV Me.hdc,X,Y,vbBlue