Change desktop.

[RobDog888]

Here it is but the background of the textbox can not be made transparent
without loosing the digits visibility. A label will not be any better since it is
not a real transparent backcolor.

This is a screenshot of it on my desktop (clouds).

Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Function CreateRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, ByVal X2 As Long, _
ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function CombineRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDestRgn As Long, ByVal hSrcRgn1 As Long, ByVal hSrcRgn2 As Long, _
ByVal nCombineMode As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal hRgn As Long, _
ByVal bRedraw As Boolean) As Long
 
Private Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
 
' Constants used by the CombineRgn function
Private Const RGN_AND = 1
Private Const RGN_OR = 2
Private Const RGN_XOR = 3
Private Const RGN_DIFF = 4
Private Const RGN_COPY = 5
 
Private Sub Form_Activate()
 
    Dim rgnForm As Long, rgnCombined As Long
    Dim rgnControl As Long, X As Long
    Dim formWidth As Single, formHeight As Single
    Dim borderWidth As Single, titleHeight As Single
    Dim ctlLeft As Single, ctlTop As Single
    Dim ctlWidth As Single, ctlHeight As Single
    Dim ctl As Control
 
    ' Calculate the form area
    borderWidth = (Me.Width - Me.ScaleWidth) / 2
    titleHeight = Me.Height - Me.ScaleHeight - borderWidth
    ' Convert to Pixels
    borderWidth = ScaleX(borderWidth, vbTwips, vbPixels)
    titleHeight = ScaleY(titleHeight, vbTwips, vbPixels)
    formWidth = ScaleX(Me.Width, vbTwips, vbPixels)
    formHeight = ScaleY(Me.Height, vbTwips, vbPixels)
    
    ' Create a region for the whole form
    rgnForm = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, formWidth, formHeight)
    
    rgnCombined = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, 0, 0)
    ' Make the graphical area transparent by combining the two regions
    X = CombineRgn(rgnCombined, rgnForm, rgnForm, RGN_DIFF)
 
    ' Make the controls visible
    For Each ctl In Controls
        ' Make the regions of controls whose container is the form visible
        If ctl.Name <> "Timer1" Then
            If TypeOf ctl.Container Is Form Then
                ctlLeft = ScaleX(ctl.Left, vbTwips, vbPixels) + borderWidth
                ctlTop = ScaleX(ctl.Top, vbTwips, vbPixels) + titleHeight
                ctlWidth = ScaleX(ctl.Width, vbTwips, vbPixels) + ctlLeft
                ctlHeight = ScaleX(ctl.Height, vbTwips, vbPixels) + ctlTop
                rgnControl = CreateRectRgn(ctlLeft, ctlTop, ctlWidth, ctlHeight)
                X = CombineRgn(rgnCombined, rgnCombined, rgnControl, RGN_OR)
            End If
        End If
    Next ctl
    
    ' Set the clipping area of the window using the resulting region
    SetWindowRgn hWnd, rgnCombined, True
    
    ' Tidy up
    X = DeleteObject(rgnCombined)
    X = DeleteObject(rgnControl)
    X = DeleteObject(rgnForm)
    
End Sub
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Unload Me
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Timer1.Interval = 1000
    Timer1.Enabled = True
    Text1.Text = Format(Now, "MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss AMPM")
End Sub
 
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Text1.Text = Format(Now, "MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss AMPM")
End Sub

I hope this is what you were wanting.