Opacity/Fading/Transparency, please help

[pylesj]

Ok heres what I want to do... I want my program to fade from opactity 0 to opacity 100 when the form loads... ive tried many things, but i cant seem to get anything to work. Please help, I really could use it.

Josh

[Bazza81]

Opacity is stored as a 'double' value from 0 being transparent and 1 being opaque.

For instance 0.5 is half way.

For d As Double = 0 to 1 Step 0.01
     Me.Opacity = d
Next d

[pylesj]

Ok thanks, I found a solution, but now heres what I need... I have the program masked using Transparency Key, so how do I make it draw in each step? I am using a timer, so on each tick, it adds .01 to the opacity, it may slow the transparency down, but that pink is annoying... anyone help? heres the code:



Private Sub Timer2_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer2.Tick
Me.Opacity += 0.1 'Look at this, we are increasing the opacity property
'Now let's check to see if the opacity has gone from 1 to 0 yet.
If Me.Opacity = 1 Then 'If it is then
Me.Timer2.Enabled = False
End If
End Sub

[pylesj]

Does anyone know???

[pylesj]

no one knows?