nasbité

Hey Guys, I've been trying for days and need some more outside assistance. I am developing a desktop program that is filled with irregular shapes. Even the form itself is an irregular shape.

What i need help with is making not just the form show transparency, or just a single transparent UserControl to be on top of the form... but how do I have layer multiple UserControls (or alternative methods) to a single form?

The desired effect would permit irregular shaped buttons to be visible and enabled, and each layer would have its own clickable buttons as well.

Does anybody have any experience to share, please?

Thank you very much in advance!

- nasbité

Mikecrosoft

Take a look to this Garret Sever's tutorial

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nasbité

Thanks for the advice. However, the link provided no new informations.

A good component to use (and this goes out to everybody) would be an OCX which mimics the PictureBox control, however, which also provides inherent transparency properties.

This site has one, for example, called SeeThroughPictureBox (and it's free):
http://www.vb-components.com/

There are others out there which charge $$, but why spend $$ when you don't have to?!?!

Thanks for the assistance anyways.

Flyguy

nasbité

Thanks, Flyguy, but the article/chapter still fails to help any.

Simply to clarify my question... I am looking to have multiple overlapping transparent UserControls. Implementing such UserControls is the dilemma, but having multiple UserControls, all transparent, showing cleary.

Has anyone out there ever used multiple overlapping Transparent UserControls before, anyway???