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REAL Translucent Form, Flickerless & AutoUpdating

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Submitted on: 3/3/2001 11:27:11 PM
By: Florian Egel  
Level: Intermediate
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     This Code shows <br>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 :R
    //     EAL Translucent Form, Flickerless & Auto
    //     Updating
    //**************************************
    //     
    FoxAlphaBlend
    BitBlt
    GetDesktopWindow
    GetDC
    ReleaseDC
    Sleep
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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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