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Article #145Re: VB - need a "transparent" button or picture...
From: Galen Raben
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 16:28
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 16:28
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In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools, I wrote: >Ok, this time I have a question.... >I'm developing a shareware astronomy program using VB. >I need "transparent" buttons or picture objects in one of my maps (which is >a form). What I mean by "transparent" is that the background needs to show >thru except for the buttons bitmap. I know how to make transparent bitmaps >using API calls, and I can place those as I need, but the problem is I need >them to respond to a mouse click event (like a button or picture object >does on a VB form) This turned out to be simple (I couldn't see the forest for all the trees). I had gotten locked into BitBlt'ing the picture to the form, hadn't occurred to me could BitBlt a portion of the form to the picture control!! Thanks to all of you who have written/posted suggestions!! - Galen - galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com
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From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 16:28:49 GMT Subject: Re: VB - need a "transparent" button or picture... Message-ID: <36720009@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpfcso!hpgrla!galenr Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools References: <36720006@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> Lines: 21