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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.

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...
;-)

3/4/2001 4:32:52 AM:GKenny

Looks good, but the screenshot of my 
mum must go. ;-)

3/4/2001 8:17:20 AM:Florian Egel

??? Great, I didn't know I have a 
brother... ;-)

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 :)

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.

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.

3/6/2001 12:54:12 AM:kutsal baser

it seems GREAT !
but how to set the 
level of the transparency ?

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.

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.

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?

4/4/2001 7:52:52 PM:MarkS

Magic!

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

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.

4/13/2001 2:48:34 AM:Pure

No source for the DLL.. thats the whole 
code.. I mean Jesus.

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

4/27/2002 4:57:08 PM:subhra

could not download the translucent from 
code for any machine.please rectify 
soon

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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