Can you make part of a control transparent?

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Let me preface this by saying I do not want to make a picturebox transparent. A picturebox is not involved.

I found these cool freeware controls at innovasys.com, and they look great . Especially the "FramePlus" control. But I want to make a certain portion of this control transparent.

I attached a small png, the area that appears purple is the controls maskcolor. I just want to set that maskcolor to transparent. But every tutorial I found involves a picturebox control and/or a maskpicture.

I never bothered learning vb graphics before, so I have no real idea how to do this. I do know that the control exposes hWnd and hDC properties.

Any help is appreciated.

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DOH! forgot the attachment.

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Da Bump!

[mudfish]

I do not think you can make part of it transparent, but you should be able to cover it with another control!

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Originally posted by mudfish
I do not think you can make part of it transparent, but you should be able to cover it with another control!

nice try mudfish , but not what I'm looking for. Unfortunately it might be my only option.