Drawing on top of a video picture

[k_ride]

Hey!

Does anyone know, if there is a way to draw stuff (i.e. circles and lines and such) on top of a video picture displayed with the mediaplayer component? And if not, then why not? How does the mediaplayer work, as it looks like it draws an extra layer on top of the element for the video picture.

Kride

[Mad Compie]

Perhaps by setting the ClipControls property of the form to False.

[k_ride]

nope, won't do the trick.

What I want to do is to draw a directDraw layer on top of a moving video image, kind of like drawing on a television screen with a pen (which I am not going to..). And also, the layer has to be transparent. Now, I can make all the dd stuff work except that the video played on the movieplayer component is always drawn on the topmost layer.

Any ideas, anyone?

Kride