Transparent Background - Solid Icons

[James]

Hi all,

Anyway of making a transparent background but solid Icons, labels etc? I know Larrys Screen Text did this, but I don't know where it is..

Thanks,

James

[James]

Dun dun dun.

No one knows, fair enough, gives me something to experiment with.

[JustinReno]

You could make a GUI tranparent and create other smaller GUIs with the icons/labels/buttons you want.

[James]

Tried that, but it looks untidy.

Edited December 2, 2007 by JamesB

[JustinReno]

I don't see how it would look tidy either way or vice versa.

Edited December 2, 2007 by JustinReno

[The Ape]

Is this it?

Dll and bitmap needed (below)

; EXAMPLE SHOWING Bitmap to Region function ( BMP2RGN() )
;
; int BMP2RGN("str","path to BMP",
;    "int",red value,
;    "int",green value,
;    "int",blue value)
;
; The red, green, blue values should be the color of the pixel
; in the BMP that you DON't want to see.
;
#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$gui = GUICreate("",100,100,-1,-1, $WS_POPUP)
GUICtrlCreatePic("larry.bmp",0,0,100,100)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
$Button = GUICtrlCreateButton("button", 15, 40, 70, 20)
$a = DLLCall("BMP2RGN.dll","int","BMP2RGN", _
            "str","larry.bmp", _
            "int",0, _
            "int",0, _
            "int",0)
SetWindowRgn($gui, $a[0])
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $Button
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Func SetWindowRgn($h_win, $rgn)
    DllCall("user32.dll", "long", "SetWindowRgn", "hwnd", $h_win, "long", $rgn, "int", 1)
EndFunc

larry.bmp

BMP2RGN.dll

[James]

Thanks, I shall try that now.

Edit: Brilliant, but how do I change the transparency level?

Edited December 2, 2007 by JamesB

[The Ape]

Thanks, I shall try that now.

Edit: Brilliant, but how do I change the transparency level?

I don't know if that's possible. Maybe something in the DLL. Ask Larry.

[voldor]

Hello,

i've got a problem here. on some machines the black part of the image is still displayed. and i got no errors from the DLLCall(...) but

the handle to the region is equal to 0

; EXAMPLE SHOWING Bitmap to Region function ( BMP2RGN() )
;
; int BMP2RGN("str","path to BMP",
;   "int",red value,
;   "int",green value,
;   "int",blue value)
;
; The red, green, blue values should be the color of the pixel
; in the BMP that you DON't want to see.
;
#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$gui = GUICreate("",100,100,-1,-1, $WS_POPUP)
GUICtrlCreatePic("larry.bmp",0,0,100,100)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
$Button = GUICtrlCreateButton("button", 15, 40, 70, 20)
$a = DLLCall("BMP2RGN.dll","int","BMP2RGN", _
            "str","larry.bmp", _
            "int",0, _
            "int",0, _
            "int",0)
MsgBox(1,"Info","region handle = "&$a[0] )
SetWindowRgn($gui, $a[0])
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $Button
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

Func SetWindowRgn($h_win, $rgn)
    DllCall("user32.dll", "long", "SetWindowRgn", "hwnd", $h_win, "long", $rgn, "int", 1)
EndFunc

Any idea ?

Edited February 2, 2008 by voldor