I need a trasparent bkcolor frame?!

[Baruzzi]

Hello to all
I have a form with a backgroud picture. Then i want to make visible a frameX I would like to disply only the border of the frame So backcoloro of the FrameX must be trasparet.
Somebody knows how to do this???

Vince

[MerrionComputin]

You can set the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT style...

Using EventVB.dll this can be done thus:

Option Explicit
 
Dim WithEvents vbLink As EventVB.APIFunctions
Dim wndFra As EventVB.ApiWindow
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
 
Set vbLink = New APIFunctions
 
Set wndFra = New ApiWindow
 
With wndFra
    .hWnd = Me.Frame1.hWnd
    .SetWindowStyle WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, True
    .DeviceContext.BackStyle = TRANSPARENT
End With
 
End Sub

Hope this helps,
Duncan

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