I have been searching and searching for months for a way to get the graphics BEHIND the active form so i can do alphablended forms via png images....kinda like some of the new windows vista stuff... I know it can be done because stardock's desktopx supports png transparency and it can do it ontop of other windows...

remember, im not trying to make the form semi-transparent, im trying to make regions of the form semitransparent... so i can have semi-transparent ui's and such...

any ideas? api's?