Screen goes black.. Then goes brighter.

Hey, Good day folks!

Iv'e been looking for that a lot.. Is there a way that I can make the screen
go black slowly, then brigther? To make sure you get me, Watch this MapleStory video and turn to 0:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSz0Q4fo7A

You see it goes black.. and then brigther?
How do I do that?

Thanks!

You might wanna provide a bit more detail about what you're trying to do. Do you want your whole screen to go black, or just your form? Does it have images on it, or do you just want to dynamically change the background color fading from white to black to white? Are you using graphics, DirectX, or even GDI+?

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Originally Posted by GinGin

You might wanna provide a bit more detail about what you're trying to do. Do you want your whole screen to go black, or just your form? Does it have images on it, or do you just want to dynamically change the background color fading from white to black to white? Are you using graphics, DirectX, or even GDI+?

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1. Just the form.
2. Yes, It does. I want to do this like in the video showen on the first post.
2. No, I'm not using any of theese.

Thank you.

You won't be able to efficiently achieve your goal using just System.Windows.Forms, though of course you could do something like create another form, set its background color to black, dynamically locate it at the same place as your current form and increase and decrease it's opacity for the fade effect, but trust me that's not the way to go. You'll have to at least use the System.Drawing.Graphics(GDI+) class.

Without calling api's or some complicated rendering of alpha bitmaps or the so, If you could do with the form disapearing instead of going black, you can play with the .opacity property of the form, gradually changing it from 1.0 to 0.0 and then back again. ie:

for value = 1 to 0 step 0.1
Me.opacity = value
next

of course this would be so fast you would not see the change, put some delay between the lines.

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Originally Posted by GinGin

You won't be able to efficiently achieve your goal using just System.Windows.Forms, though of course you could do something like create another form, set its background color to black, dynamically locate it at the same place as your current form and increase and decrease it's opacity for the fade effect, but trust me that's not the way to go. You'll have to at least use the System.Drawing.Graphics(GDI+) class.

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Why do you think using a masking form isn't the way to go? I find that method can work very well -- as long as you make the main form the Owner of the masking form. GDI+ will work for fading a background image, but presents problems if there are controls on the main form. BB

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Originally Posted by boops boops

Why do you think using a masking form isn't the way to go? I find that method can work very well -- as long as you make the main form the Owner of the masking form. GDI+ will work for fading a background image, but presents problems if there are controls on the main form. BB

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You're absolutely right, for some reason I didn't even think of making the main form the owner.

@OP
You should be good to go with the mask form :)