okay, a form has a .picture property, im setting that picture property to an actual picture.
I would like to do as you do in your projects posted above, but not with a picture box. I would like to do it with the form itself, is that possible? I dont think i can explain any clearer..
Now I understand
Try it. Just change to code so it uses the forms hwnd and HDC instead of the picture boxes.
really busy now, but will take a look at it in a few hrs.
Is there anyway to make it so that I can make it my "Office Assistant" like object. I want to make it so that it helps my people during writing in my text editor. But I want it to Overlay so that it does not go behind the form when people click.
I want to make it like that paper clip in word or something like that.
thamizhinpan, the pink border around your pic is because of antialiasing generated by your graph editor. Try to turn this off or remove the pink pixel by pixel.
can you make a windows vista skin like a form will be like a glasses...please? i really need a skin for my program!..if anyone knows a thing that can skin a program perfectly for free please help me...!!
i mean a form will be look likes a glasse's or something...but anyway i just want to skinned my form,i dont mind if i cant get a glasses effect skin but all i just want is to skinned the form so that my form will look like a professional..i try'd vbSkinner Pro 2 before but i hate license key so i ddnt continue using it...and also i try'd ActiveSkin 4.3 but its seems not to be perfect to my project so i need help into this...amm i just want to my form to skinned by so that it will looks nice and wow....thank you so much..any help will be appreciated..
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Sorry I don't have time.
Plus a million other people beat me to it
Here's a link Hack once posted for some code on CodeProject.com.
Code is simple and easy to change.
It could do with some cleaning up though...like renaming all the controls to something instead of Button1, Panel9 etc.
Hi thanks for the code..
Can you tell me how to skin the form to the shape of the text in a Label... I am trying to make a transparent clock. Is it possible with this code..?? please help..!!
You would need to store the numbers as seperate images, with a purple background color.
Then every minute, using a timer, add the required images to a picture box and positiojn them correctly. then reskin.
I think if you want to display seconds then you may have an issue due to the overhead of the skinning process.
thanks a lot..
now I am rebuilding it in vb.net.
i am trying to rotate an image every second. thus the memory usage of the app. keeps increasing. please hekp how can i restrict the memory usage..!
This is a VB6 example. NONE of the code here applies to .NET.
.NET allows you to skin forms much more easily and effeciently.
You will need to ask this is the relevant .NET section.