Transparent Frame

I have a form with a background texture. I want to have a few Option Buttons inside a Frame control.

The problem is that the Frame control's background is solid gray, which looks really horrible.

How can I work around this?

I thought about a custom control, but I would rather see if there was a simple way to do it first.

Incidentally, might you be interested in writing such a control with me and then just release it as freeware to the guys on here?

I assume you have the OptionButtons in a frame so that they can be made mutually exclusive. Here's a way to do it without the frame.

Code:

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Private Sub Option1_Click(Index As Integer)

    Dim intNdx As Integer
   
    For intNdx = 0 To Option1.Count - 1
        If intNdx <> Index Then
            Option1(intNdx).Value = False
        End If
    Next
   
End Sub

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Well, that's a way of doing it and it would probably work fine... I could replace the frame with two Shape controls to get the frame effect.

But still, I am getting stubborn now ... hahaha

There MUST be a way to work around it. What if I have a major application and want to add background textures to, say 50 forms containing frames? I think PaulLewis is on to something there.