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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Shouldn't the background of this text be transparent?

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:11 am Post subject:

Looks like it to me Wink

jules · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:34 am Post subject:

The support for skinnable forms expects controls to be placed on the visible part of the window.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

The background of this window is transparent, but the background of the
text is not transparent.

I've attached an example:

GregLand · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject:

Test this :

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

I was almost sure tehre is an INVISIBLE style for text and bitmaps. Instead of using TRANSPARENT try puttign INVISIBLE in. I can't test it here but I'm almost positive there was a style for that.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

@PK-It accepts the style but it's the same result.

@GregLand-Thanks - but again it gives the same result...

What I want to do is make a large clock that is able to be dragged around
on the screen. Kind of like http://www.softdemon.com/clock/

jules · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

There is a VDS Clock example that was originally written by Garrett which I think is one of the examples distributed with VDS. It uses a bitmap to define the shape of the clock window. The transparency works fine when there is a visible surface (form or bitmap) behind the text, but you cannot have a control on an invisible part of the form.