DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A PICTUREBOX TRANSLUCENT

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

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.

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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.

You cannot pset on a textbox

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

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

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.

Code:

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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

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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

Code:

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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

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