Transparent MDI Forms (Not Controls)

I have several windows that i currently open outside of an MDI form, and when they are loaded, they are set as vbModal of the MDI form, they arent a child form yet becuase of the visual appearance. I wanted the users at first to be able to see the background instead of a huge border of nothing with a little bit of contents in the middle..

So that was working for awhile, but now im trying to make things a little fancyer. Now what i want to do is make those forms all MDI child's, have them start maximized, center the contents, and when they load, i want the form itself, and not the controls to be around 50% transparent, and set so you can NOT click through it. I wont have to worry about Modal errors anymore, and things will look really nice if i can figure this out and fade those forms in and out (which i can already do).

Does anybody know how to make MDI Child forms transparent without having the controls transparent, and without having a 2nd (or more) form for each MDI child im doing this too? :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

Wow :eek:

I just read this again and no wonder im not getting reply's, it hardly makes any sence at all!

What i was trying to say, is i want to be able to load up an MDI form on top of the other forms, but make certain forms 20~50% transparent, and a solid color, that way you can see through it, but i want the main controls to NOT be transparent..

If you've used Windows Vista, you'll know what i mean. When Vista is shutting down, and a program isnt closing, the screen basically dims a little bit and the message comes up in the middle of the screen. Its that same effect, but i want ONLY the last opened window to dim, just like that in vista, but the dimming would be WITHIN the main MDI form, not the children.. This is hard to explain.

So here's a picture to hopefully explain it better! I want to do this same thing within the main MDI form:
http://www.benwatt.net/blog/wp-conte...n_Warning6.jpg

Basically the form itself is transparent, but the controls on it are not. All the windows that come up like this are little dialog's similar to this, and i have all kinds of vbModal errors that come up and all kinds of other stupid stuff that ive been fixing. BUT! I think this would be awesome!

Thanks in advance if anyone knows how to do this

Try double form
1st Form with Transparent key
2nd Form with Mask Color key

but that's all just a trick

hope u find idea here