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  1. May 27th, 2011, 08:43 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Layering Transparent GIFs in VB6

    It's been quite awhile since I have done any sort of desktop programming, but with recent storms in my little corner of upstate NY and my desire to always have access to radar has made me want to make a program similair (though less feature-rich) to StormPredator. The NWS Makes all of its NEXRAD imagery publicly available on their server, and I have already written the code to download the images that I want, but now I need to layer them together.

    For example I want to put this image (http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Overl...City_Short.gif) on top of this image (http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Radar.../BGM_N0R_0.gif)

    note: you won't be able to see the first image in your browser if it displays images with a white background, as it is white type on a transparent background

    I read in another thread (http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=349432) something about using GDI+ but I'm currently using VB6 (as I said, it's been awhile, but for making a simple program for my own use I'm not going to bother learning the .NET environment and buy a license for it) and the code example provided there did not work for me. Can anyone help?

    Thanks in advance,
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    Re: Layering Transparent GIFs in VB6

    Nevermind, Using an Image control I can stack them on top of eachother and preserve the transparency of the images. Thanks for reading.
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