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?