Well... I already sent a post showing how to set transparent on a form... There is no better way than simply making the form transparent. What you Then draw will appear free floating, so of course if you call fillrect you Defeat the point.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alister Christie Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2006 1:57 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Transparent Forms Hmmm, and it the one that seems to work best, although if the background changes the form doesn't reflect this. Does anyone know how to grab what is under a form as a bitmap? Currently I'm capturing the area under the form before it shows, and setting this as the background of the form, then showing it. I guess I could hide the form, capture the background and show it again, but this would introduce flickering - can anyone think of anything better? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Richard Vowles wrote: > The claytons transparency :-) > > > --- > Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: +64-9-9184573 > cell: +64-21-467747 > other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rob van der Linde > Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 7:39 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] Transparent Forms > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
