How to make a form irregular in shape and style???

[rudvs2]

Hello Chaps and Chappettes

I am wanting to customise my gui I know that it is possible to make a form a custom shape and style, however I have no idea of how to go about doing this.

If someone could give me an idea of where to start or of any online resources/tutorials it would be very helpful

Thanks in advance

[DaoK]

You can use an application who will create for you the form. I do not remember the name but its an activeX.

[rbnwares]

Use SetWindowRgn to do this.

[filburt1]

Originally posted by DaoK
You can use an application who will create for you the form. I do not remember the name but its an activeX.

In one of my programs, I used the PolyForm control at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/2118 to accomplish this task.

[rickm]

http://www.vb-world.net/demos/winrgn/

[rudvs2]

Originally Posted by rbnwares
Use SetWindowRgn to do this.

Can you explain this a bit further rbnwares??

thanks filburt1 i will check that app out

but i would like to do it via code if at all possible

[filburt1]

The API code is a little freaky...http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...light=polyform

[Redth]

I've used this tool for all my weird shaped form needs.... Just go into ms paint, make your desired shape in solid black, overtop the white background, and let this program trace it and come up with a .frm file!

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscrape...tml?VBSFC.html

kudos to Alex Vallat for making this program it is fantastic!

[rbnwares]

Use one of these functions to create a region:
CreateEllipticRgn
CreatePolygonRgn
CreateRectRgn
CreateRoundRectRgn

You can combine the regions created by the functions above to create a hole in the region, use:
CombineRgn

Set the created region to your form, use:
SetWindowRgn

You can code it like this:

Dim hRgn As Long

hRgn = CreateEllipticRgn(0,0,Me.Width/Screen.TwipsPerPixelX,Me.Height/Screen.TwipsPerPixelY)
Call SetWindowRgn(Me.hWnd, hRgn, True) 

[DaoK]

PolyForm

Exacly what I searched!!!!! Good Job Arien

[filburt1]

I'm so proud of myself.

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by Redth
I've used this tool for all my weird shaped form needs.... Just go into ms paint, make your desired shape in solid black, overtop the white background, and let this program trace it and come up with a .frm file!

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscrape...tml?VBSFC.html

kudos to Alex Vallat for making this program it is fantastic!

I concour, that tool is cool stuff. You can draw basically any shape and it does all the code for you, even thinks to include code to deal with dragging.