It can be done on all windows versions, not just XP:
1) Take a screen capture of the screen and store in an offscreen bitmap
2) Work out where your splash screen is going to appear (e.g center of
screen) and copy into a new smaller bitmap
3) use Delphi PNG component http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net/ and load a
transparent PNG and paste it on top the smaller screen bitmap.
4) use this new bitmap as your splash screen. It will appear transparent.
Alister Christie wrote:
I'm interested in doing a fancy transparent forms (for a splash
screen). Ideally I'd just place a PNG onto the form and the
transparancy would be worked out based on the alpha chanel of the PNG.
Has anyone done anything like this?
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