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REAL Translucent Form, Flickerless & AutoUpdating
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3/3/2001 11:27:11 PM |
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Florian Egel
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This Code shows
how to make real transparent forms without needing Win98 or W2k; it does not flicker and it automatically updates while moving. Even the Buttons are translucent! This code is another good example how to use my FoxCBmp3.dll, too, furthermore it demonstrates an alternative way to create cool effects with Buttons (like graphics, transparency, mask...)
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'Windows API/Global Declarations for :REAL Translucent Form, Flickerless & AutoUpdating
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FoxAlphaBlend
BitBlt
GetDesktopWindow
GetDC
ReleaseDC
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 3/3/2001 11:44:52 PM: Rad-X
Looks good, thanks for the screenshot, my mum was watching me when i loaded the page, lol.
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3/4/2001 1:01:32 AM: Florian Egel
Sorry Dude, I was tired and that was the first picture i found on my HD...
;-)
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3/4/2001 4:32:52 AM: GKenny
Looks good, but the screenshot of my mum must go. ;-)
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3/4/2001 8:17:20 AM: Florian Egel
??? Great, I didn't know I have a brother... ;-)
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3/4/2001 9:14:20 AM: ^DaRk^
exellent!this is definatively the best example i've seen so far to make a form translucent.. thx for sharing it :)
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3/5/2001 11:10:27 AM: Clint LaFever
Nice functionality. Just wanted to comment however that there is a reason EXE's are stripped from .ZIP files when posting and I find it very rude that you decided to rename your EXE to a .EXE_ to force it to stay.
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3/5/2001 12:00:26 PM: Florian Egel
Generally you are right, i just decided to provide the .exe because the code often leaves ghosts on the screen when you run it in the IDE, so you have to either compile it or run the provided exe. that's why.
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3/6/2001 12:54:12 AM: kutsal baser
it seems GREAT !
but how to set the level of the transparency ?
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3/6/2001 6:23:31 AM: Florian Egel
there are 2 calls of FoxAlphaBlend, one in Sub Update and one in Sub Picture1_MouseMove. one of the last parameters is 128, change this value (0 is invisible, 255 is opaque) but NOTE: the values 64, 128, 192, 255 are MUCH faster than the others, maybe 2 times as fast! but play with the value to see yourself.
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3/6/2001 7:46:27 PM: Sabertooth
Hey Flo,
this code is as excellent as all your submissions! the first really working translucent form, and your Advanced Graphics Routines are awesome, when I see your code I feel like a tiny beginner even though I am twice as old...
Once again, great work, 5 globes from me.
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3/12/2001 12:19:27 PM: Kosh
You clearly have a solid grasp of graphic functions and the Win32 API. My hat goes off to you. Where did you learn to do magic like this?
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4/4/2001 7:52:52 PM: MarkS
Magic!
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4/6/2001 10:29:51 AM: TM from CR
As I set in other submission
We need more people like
Florian!
Sharing the knowledge to
everyone (open source)!
Learning from
the best to do the best...
Thank you
and keep working
-TM
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4/10/2001 11:11:29 PM: agent153
Pretty cool. I like it a lot. I've been wondering how fesable it would be to 'move' the desktop image around the form as the form was moved. My AMD-k6 333 is not quite fast enough to run this at a decent speed though.
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4/13/2001 2:48:34 AM: Pure
No source for the DLL.. thats the whole code.. I mean Jesus.
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4/13/2001 5:03:32 PM: Chris
The source of FoxAlphaBlend would be much more helpful. I haven't looked at the code in the project yet, but from what I can tell, almost all the work is done in the DLL function(s). Even so, it is an excellent example.
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4/18/2001 11:12:55 PM: Florian Egel
Sure the source is in the dll, that's what it is about. You can get the dll-source at my other postings
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4/20/2001 8:36:49 AM: Mike
Excellent Work! When I tried my own bmp, the minimize and exit images disappeared. How could one fix that?
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6/9/2001 2:19:30 PM: Mark Hunter
Fantastic! 5 Stars.
Just one question. I tried setting the ALWAYS ON TOP flag using SetWindowPos, but when Windows under this one change (move, etc.), the Window won't update.
Other than that, there is no difference between this and the Win2K Alpha blending.
Any idea what Windows message or other technique could be used to update the window when others windows under it change?
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11/10/2001 12:11:46 PM: ken
ive tried to understand the coding but i dont understand why there are 3 picture boxes???
why are tehre 3 in the example... what are they used for??
thanks.
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11/27/2001 9:36:37 AM: SPeedracer
Great code.
Do you know of anyway to make a whole form translucent? or another program? and still allow all the buttons and thingsto work?
thanks alot.
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3/29/2002 1:28:51 PM: Metasoft
haha that button at the bottom of the form is from diablo 2, huh? thanks-i really needed that dll.
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4/27/2002 4:57:08 PM: subhra
could not download the translucent from
code for any machine.please rectify soon
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5/17/2002 12:37:09 PM: Fred Ochoa
This is truly the "best" one I have seen on this site, and I have "tested" about ten similiar ones on this site. WOW!!!
I Just have two questions Florian. Can you also make a semi-transparent picturebox with your dll.
I put the semi transparent form on top of the mediaplayer control but I guess the running video just flickers to fast for the form to be semi-transparent over the video???
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6/15/2003 4:22:33 PM: Jonathan Chappell
Wow! I've been looking for something like this for ages. Most other ones require XP / 2000.
5 globes from me.
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9/20/2003 9:24:47 PM:
I cant get the dll file, and i realy wanna now how you do this, could you mail to liamingram@hotmail.com
Thx
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11/11/2003 1:02:43 AM:
I cant get the dll file, and i realy
wanna now like liamingram@hotmail.com
how you do this, could you
mail to nasia_nasia04@yahoo.com
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3/12/2004 5:54:34 AM: gurpreetsingh
Hi, Loved the screen shots. But when downloaded the dll is missing. I tried three times and still the same result. If possible mail me the dll and also post the dll in the zip[. There are lots of people that will appreciate this code.
Regards
Er. Gurpreet Singh
CEO Sukhmani Software
New Delhi
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1/21/2005 4:04:02 AM:
Can you please send me the dll
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1/4/2006 8:28:05 PM: lunis
dll?
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