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Article #552Re: How to make the FORM transparent !!!!
From: SnipeZ
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:00
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Eberhard KοΏ½mmel wrote: > Yes, you are right about the region, sorry I forgot the moving of the > window. But I also found in earlier experiments > with round regions, that the region stuff only works fine for rectangle > regions. > Even if it is possible to have any region you want, most screen drivers are > real sloooooow in handling that. > > Eberhard You're right. Using regions that aren't rectangular look a bit ulgy when you move the form around. I once made a routine that created a region from tracing the edges of any bitmap. But the complexity of the region made smooth animation of the window impossible. Too bad... it could have been nice to use it for creating "desktop pets" running around on top of the desktop :) SnipeZ
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