Transparent Frame

[Karl Blessing]

At the moment I have an instalation program that either installs or Upgrades(my selfmade script interp) , well on one of the steps, theres a lot of controls, normally If&nbsp;&nbsp;I justuse a frame control, stick a lot into it, I can just set the visibility to false when user intervention is not needed, well in this case, I want to keep the controls out of a frame, for the reason that a Frame control cannot have a transparent background like a Label can, least theres no way that I know of, reason I need it transparent, is the dialog, is both gradient, and has a transparent GIF on top of that gradient background(instalation gfx), If I do figure out a way of doing transparent frame, I dont intend to put the Image control in it, only to the side( reason being might have a problem going through two layers of transparency) Anyone got any ideas? <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Drone38]

You can Hide the Frame, & copy the backgroundin a HDC then you make visible the control & you draw what's on the HDC.<br><br><br>Use this function:<br><br><br>ret=CreatCompatibleDC(NULL)<br>BitBlt(ret,xdest,ydest,,width,height,GetWindowDC(Me.hwnd),xsrc,ysrc)<br>Control.visible=true<br>BitBlt(GetWindowDC(Me.hwnd),xdest,ydest,width,height,ret,xsrc,ysrc)<br><br>Try my game against Poke : <A HREF="

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[Karl Blessing]

Um CreateCompatibleDC doesnt exist, and I Cant find it on the API Text Viewer. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Karl Blessing]

n/m I found it. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Karl Blessing]

ok got those API declarations in, how about the xdest, ydest, width, height, I assume thats the area to cut/copy, but whats the xsrc, and ysrc <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[MikeLacey]

x and y source? - to match x and y destination I'm guessing <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

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[Karl Blessing]

well whatever his idea is, the second BitBlt is missing a bunch of parameters, and I dont think its Destination , I think it's cutting then pasting, Could you be more specific (and correct stuff like spelling, and parameters) <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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