Making a FORM transparent

[Gregery D Engle]

I am interested in making a form 100% transparent but I want to make the controls visible. Basically I want to make a listbox on a form that will appear to be floating, any ideas?

To make sure we are all on the same page I actually am wanting the form invisible with the controls visible. Because I have messed around with %WS_EX_TRANSPARENT and it just seems to mess the repainting up so any ideas would be great.

Thanks

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited May 13, 2000).]

[Semen Matusovski]

Gregory --
perhaps, you want something like this

#Compile Exe
#Dim All
#Register None
#Include "win32api.INC"

Global oldproc As Long
CallBack Function DlgProc
    Select Case CbMsg
      Case %WM_COMMAND: If CbCtl = 102 Then Dialog End CbHndl
      Case %WM_DESTROY: SetWindowLong CbHndl, %GWL_WNDPROC, oldproc
   End Select
End Function

CallBack Function SubClass
    Select Case CbMsg
     Case %WM_NCHITTEST: Function = %HTCAPTION: Exit Function
   End Select
   Function = CallWindowProc(oldproc, CbHndl, CbMsg, CbWparam, CbLparam)
End Function

Function PbMain
   Local hDlg As Long
   Dialog New 0, "Ltr32", , , 100, 100, %WS_POPUP To hDlg
   Dim Item(5) As String, i As Long
   For i = 0 To 5: Item(i) = "Item" + Str$(i + 1): Next
   Control Add ListBox, hDlg, 101, item(), 6, 5, 88, 80
   Control Add Button, hDlg, 102, "Quit", 30, 80, 40, 14
   OldProc = SetWindowLong(hDlg, %GWL_WNDPROC, CodePtr(subclass))
   Dialog Show Modal hDlg, Call DlgProc
End Function

PS. What about icons on desktop ? Did you saw my global hook ?(sample #2)

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[Gregery D Engle]

Ya I did try that Global Hook Sample #2 and that is example what I needed. If you email me at [email protected] I can tell you what the project is about but I don't want to discuss it on this board. Thanks for all your help. Oh I am still working on how to figure out when the focus leaves the icon but I think it won't take that long to figure out.

Thanks

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-Greg

[Semen Matusovski]

Gregory --
For me is interesting global hook as it is only
I reposted a sample #2 (+ information, when cursor leaves an icon)

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[E B Knoppert]

You could also take a look to 'regions' on my site.

It's written in VB.



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[Patrice Terrier]

Greg,

WinLIFT Pro edition could save you weeks of hard work...


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Patrice Terrier
mailto[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Gregery D Engle]

Originally posted by Semen Matusovski:
Gregory --
For me is interesting global hook as it is only
I reposted a sample #2 (+ information, when cursor leaves an icon)

I've got a question? Do you just whip up this code in a few minutes? Because you have been VERY helpful and I classify myself a good programmer but the code that I've seen from you I could never do

I think I should reclassify what I was talking about with the focus. I wanted to detect when the mouse leaves an icon and moves somewhere else on the desktop.

Again, thanks

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited May 13, 2000).]

[Steve Hutchesson]

Greg,

One think you can easily do is make the list box the parent window
with a normal CreateWindowEx() call and use a subclass function
as the main message processing function. Its easy to do and it
works fine.

You can load the list box from the WM_INITDIALOG message in the message
handling proc or after the CreateWindowEx() call, either will do.

I don't know if this is what you mean by a floating window but it
is an easy app to write.

Regards,

[email protected]

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