Transparent dialog boxes

[johan]

Does anyone know how to get transparent dialog boxes on Win2000/XP? (like in TextPad 4)

[Yheeky]

Well, I don´t know TextPad 4. Can you please post some URL´s that I can imaging what kinda dialogs you wanna create?

[Thomas Stutz]

Hi,

There's a SetLayeredWindowAttributes API to set the opacity and transparency of a window.

Have a look at this tip:
[a href="http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showcode.php?id=924" target="_blank"]http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showcode.php?id=924[/a]

[johan]

TextPad 4 can be downloaded from [a href="http://www.textpad.com/" target="_blank"]http://www.textpad.com/[/a] (Trial version!), but I've figured out how to do it.

In Delphi 6, there are two wonderful properties for forms called AlphaBlend and AlphaBlendValue. I just had to set these to get a semi-transparent form.

[Yheeky]

Yeah, now I know what you mean! That´s why I´ve just developed a component which can set your form transparent. Everybody who don´t have Delphi 6 can use it.

Bye Yheeky