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  1. Oct 26th, 2001, 04:08 PM #1
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    Arrow great splash screen?

    hy, is there any trick to get a form .. (without border) transparent?? so that it looks like the picture is the form??

    i attached a screenie!! please .. i will make .. here the black transparent to see the desktop trough!!

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    you know .. like ICQ .. the startup circle!!!
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    Are you running Win2K? There is an alphablend API I think, but it only works with Win2K. I mostly just posted to tell you that in your splash screen, Knight is spelled Kingt... You might want to fix that...

    Or I just remembed... you can use a program called Shaped Form Creator to make a form anyshape you want, and then you can make it the shape of whatever it is you want. Here is a link:

    http://www.vbworld.com/articles/shapedforms/

    This has info on this topic, and if you go to the last page, there is a link to the download of the app.
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    Or you can grab a screenshot, blit it to the form and then alpha-blend the desired picture over that. That should give your form a semi-transparent look.
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    Only if he has Win2K... 95/98 don't have AlphaBlending capabilities.
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    Actually 98 does support the AlphaBlend API function.
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    Re: great splash screen?

    Originally posted by [DBH]Longbow
    hy, is there any trick to get a form .. (without border) transparent?? so that it looks like the picture is the form??

    i attached a screenie!! please .. i will make .. here the black transparent to see the desktop trough!!

    thx Longbow

    you know .. like ICQ .. the startup circle!!!
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  8. Oct 29th, 2001, 11:07 AM #7
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    löl @ tinyclock ... thx but ... its not THE solution i hope tho get!!

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