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echo: nthelp
to: John Beckett
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-04-25 20:58:52
subject: Re: Transparent background

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
news:9s6u235fnr935lgff7ea0ap1kt2h0cs2ud{at}4ax.com...
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news::
>> Windows has supported alphablending & transparency since W2k. Also, you
>> can
>> set any windowed control's shape & size to just about anything you want,
>> including holes in it. Not very surprisingly, these are not used often.
>> I've
>> played with the sometimes, but there's just no way to ever come up with
>> anything useful with them...
>
> Amazing - thanks. The bleed through really makes my app look stupid!

I'm posting a small sample on .binaries which does some stupid things with
Windows API, give it a try.


Antti Kurenniemi

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