Irregular shaped forms...

[bgalm]

Hello,
I have a few scanned stickers from a collection I have from the 80's. I am trying to add this scans to individual forms (irregular shaped of course to create "desktop" stickers. Can you create these types of forms in VB ?
Thanks,

[HeSaidJoe]

Maybe of help!

[Arcom]

Sure you can! Here's a code that will create irregular shaped form depending on the picture. This is not my code, I got it form somewhere, but it works!

this part goes in module (Copy'n'Paste):

Public Declare Function GetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hRgn As Long, ByVal bRedraw As Boolean) As Long
Public Declare Function CreateRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function CombineRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDestRgn As Long, ByVal hSrcRgn1 As Long, ByVal hSrcRgn2 As Long, ByVal nCombineMode As Long) As Long
Declare Sub ReleaseCapture Lib "user32" ()
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Public Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long

Public Const RGN_DIFF = 4
Public Const SC_CLICKMOVE = &HF012& ' This setting is not in your API viewer, not sure why.
' If you use SC_MOVE then the mouse moves to the title bar
' and then moves the form, which makes forms with no title bar
' to not work.
Public Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112

Dim CurRgn, TempRgn As Long ' Region variables

Public Function AutoFormShape(bg As Form, transColor)
Dim X, Y As Integer

CurRgn = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, bg.ScaleWidth, bg.ScaleHeight) ' Create base region which is the current whole window

While Y <= bg.ScaleHeight ' Go through each column of pixels on form
While X <= bg.ScaleWidth ' Go through each line of pixels on form
If GetPixel(bg.hdc, X, Y) = transColor Then ' If the pixels color is the transparency color (bright purple is a good one to use)
TempRgn = CreateRectRgn(X, Y, X + 1, Y + 1) ' Create a temporary pixel region for this pixel
success = CombineRgn(CurRgn, CurRgn, TempRgn, RGN_DIFF) ' Combine temp pixel region with base region using RGN_DIFF to extract the pixel and make it transparent
DeleteObject (TempRgn) ' Delete the temporary pixel region and clear up very important resources
End If
X = X + 1
Wend
Y = Y + 1
X = 0
Wend
success = SetWindowRgn(bg.hwnd, CurRgn, True) ' Finally set the windows region to the final product
DeleteObject (CurRgn) ' Delete the now un-needed base region and free resources

End Function


Here's how to call the proc:


Private Sub Form_Load()

AutoFormShape frmMain, RGB(255, 0, 255) ' Shape the form so that all areas that are bright purple become transparent.

End Sub

USAGE: Set the form's Picture property to one of your pics, and call the AutoFormShape procedure with the color that you want to be transparent.

Hope this helps.

[Ahmed Walid]

review this link -easiest and fastest way to create shaped forms-
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/motorola/153/

[bgalm]

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[Santiago Barreiro]

ARCOM works greate....only one thing... scale units most be set as PIXELS...
Thank you