rot3r Posted Thursday at 01:41 PM Posted Thursday at 01:41 PM Hello! i want to create a transparent main windows with full visible control on it. i decide to use png for covering main windows to create drop shadow . i search community for this and find a lot of outdated topic that dont work anymore. any solution?
argumentum Posted Thursday at 05:33 PM Posted Thursday at 05:33 PM (edited) Edited Thursday at 05:34 PM by argumentum Follow the link to my code contribution ( and other things too ). FAQ - Please Read Before Posting.
Solution Nine Posted Thursday at 10:49 PM Solution Posted Thursday at 10:49 PM (edited) Here modern coding (removed useless code) : expandcollapse popup#include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WinAPIConstants.au3> #include <GDIPlus.au3> #include <GuiComboBox.au3> #include <File.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <GuiConstants.au3> #include <ButtonConstants.au3> Opt("MustDeclareVars", True) Global Const $AC_SRC_ALPHA = 1 Example() Func Example() ; Load PNG file as GDI bitmap _GDIPlus_Startup() Local $sPngSrc = @ScriptDir & "\LaunchySkin.png" Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($sPngSrc) ; Extract image width and height from PNG Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage) Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage) ; Create layered window Local $hGUI = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_LAYERED) Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI, -1, -1, $hBitmap) ; Register notification messages GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NCHITTEST, WM_NCHITTEST) GUISetState() WinSetOnTop($hGUI, "", $WINDOWS_ONTOP) ; As per help file : ; When using $WS_EX_MDICHILD the position is relative to client area of the parent window. ; With $WS_EX_LAYERED it is possible to have a transparent picture on a background picture defined in the parent window. ; To have a transparent picture, create the GUI with the WS_EX_LAYERED extended style. ; The left-top pixel will be used as the transparency color. ; If several pictures are created the last picture defines the transparent color. GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, 0, 0, $WS_POPUP, BitOR($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD), $hGUI) GUICtrlCreatePic(@ScriptDir & "\grey.gif", 0, 0, $iWidth, $iHeight) ; makes the whole child GUI transparent GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Type the name of a file on" & @CR & "your desktop and press Enter", 50, 30, 140, 60) GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, $GUI_BKCOLOR_TRANSPARENT) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xFFFFFF) ; combo box listing all items on desktop Local $idCombo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 210, 30, 250, -1, BitOR($CBS_DROPDOWNLIST, $CBS_AUTOHSCROLL)) GUICtrlSetFont($idCombo, 10) ; set default button for Enter key activation - renders outside GUI window Local $idButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("", 0, 0, 0, 0, $BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON) GUISetState() ; get list of files on desktop, show in combobox Local $aFileList = _FileListToArray(@DesktopDir), $sRun _ArraySort($aFileList, 0, 1) GUICtrlSetData($idCombo, _ArrayToString($aFileList, "|", 1)) While True Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ExitLoop Case $idButton $sRun = GUICtrlRead($idCombo) ExitLoop EndSwitch WEnd If $sRun And FileExists(@DesktopDir & "\" & $sRun) Then Beep(2000, 50) ShellExecute($sRun, "", @DesktopDir) EndIf _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hBitmap) _GDIPlus_ImageDispose($hImage) _GDIPlus_Shutdown() EndFunc ;==>Example Func WM_NCHITTEST($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam) Return $HTCAPTION EndFunc ;==>WM_NCHITTEST Edited Friday at 05:55 PM by Nine rot3r, ioa747 and argumentum 3 “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
pixelsearch Posted Thursday at 11:34 PM Posted Thursday at 11:34 PM @Nine does this work for you ? ; SetBitmap($hGUI, $hImage, 255) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI, -1, -1, _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage)) If it works, then we shouldn't need Function SetBitmap() and its 18 lines. argumentum, ioa747 and Nine 3
Nine Posted Friday at 12:39 PM Posted Friday at 12:39 PM (edited) Yes, it is working. But we should use : Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI, -1, -1, $hBitmap) to ensure no memory leak. Also, I just noticed a small bug. _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hImage) is incorrect and should be replaced by : _GDIPlus_ImageDispose($hImage) and then add : _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hBitmap) EDIT : modified code above accordingly. Edited Friday at 05:55 PM by Nine argumentum, ioa747 and pixelsearch 1 2 “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
pixelsearch Posted Friday at 06:27 PM Posted Friday at 06:27 PM (edited) 6 hours ago, Nine said: to ensure no memory leak. That's right, thanks for the info In fact, I remembered a discussion from 2021 with @UEZ concerning the bypass of SetBitmap() and its replacement with _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx() . You can find the original discussion here, also you'll need Torus.png if you intend to run UEZ's interesting script. We really owe a lot to Yashied and "his famous WinAPIEx UDF" , as quoted by UEZ in his answer. Edit: now that SetBitmap() has gone forever, we still may get a shorter code with same functionalities : ; Local $hGUI = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_LAYERED) Local $hGUI = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, BitOr($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)) ; Register notification messages ; GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NCHITTEST, WM_NCHITTEST) ; WinSetOnTop($hGUI, "", $WINDOWS_ONTOP) ; Func WM_NCHITTEST($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam) ; Return $HTCAPTION ; EndFunc ;==>WM_NCHITTEST Edited Friday at 06:42 PM by pixelsearch suggesting a shorter code rot3r 1
rot3r Posted yesterday at 01:21 PM Author Posted yesterday at 01:21 PM (edited) @Nine thank for your support. Now i want to put multiple png icon on top of this windows, so i have to use GUICreate for each of them? is this ok? also i want to know why putting grey.gif ? Edited yesterday at 01:22 PM by rot3r
Nine Posted yesterday at 01:38 PM Posted yesterday at 01:38 PM 13 minutes ago, rot3r said: Now i want to put multiple png icon on top of this windows, so i have to use GUICreate for each of them? Not exactly sure what you try to do. Show the snippet of the code that is not working so we can work from it. 14 minutes ago, rot3r said: also i want to know why putting grey.gif ? Like I put in the script (from help file), to get a child GUI transparent, you need to use an image where the first pixel serves as a transparent color. Removing it would hide the main GUI. “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
rot3r Posted yesterday at 01:48 PM Author Posted yesterday at 01:48 PM i think i can explain better with picture as you can see the main windows is transparent PNG image and there are some box and icon that they are png too. how can i put this png over main windows? create new gui for every png files? sorry if its so amateur...
Nine Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago Since all the images are PNG, I would create a $WS_POPUP , BitOr($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD) GUI window for each, and use _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx to set the image inside the window (just like main GUI). rot3r 1 “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
rot3r Posted 23 hours ago Author Posted 23 hours ago 18 minutes ago, Nine said: Since all the images are PNG, I would create a $WS_POPUP , BitOr($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD) GUI window for each, and use _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx to set the image inside the window (just like main GUI). can cause performance draw back to create multiple gui windows for each? or do you recommend any thing better to achieve this?
pixelsearch Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago 3 hours ago, rot3r said: also i want to know why putting grey.gif ? Nine knows better than us, but this seems to work for me, without a pic in the 2nd GUI, maybe I missed something : expandcollapse popup#include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <File.au3> #include <GDIPlus.au3> #include <GuiComboBox.au3> #include <GuiConstantsEx.au3> #include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> Opt("MustDeclareVars", True) Example() Func Example() ; Load PNG file as GDI bitmap _GDIPlus_Startup() Local $sPngSrc = @ScriptDir & "\LaunchySkin.png" Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($sPngSrc) ; Extract image width and height from PNG Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage) Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage) ; Create layered window Local $hGUI = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, BitOr($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)) Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI, -1, -1, $hBitmap) GUISetState() Local $hGUI2 = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, 0, 0, $WS_POPUP, BitOR($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD), $hGUI) GUISetBkColor( 0xABCDEF, $hGUI2) ; transparent _WinAPI_SetLayeredWindowAttributes($hGUI2, 0xABCDEF) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Type the name of a file on" & @CR & "your desktop and press Enter", 50, 30, 140, 60) GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xFFFFFF) ; combo box listing all items on desktop Local $idCombo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 210, 30, 250, -1, BitOR($CBS_DROPDOWNLIST, $CBS_AUTOHSCROLL)) GUICtrlSetFont($idCombo, 10) ; set default button for Enter key activation - renders outside GUI window Local $idButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("", 0, 0, 0, 0, $BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON) GUISetState() ; get list of files on desktop, show in combobox Local $aFileList = _FileListToArray(@DesktopDir), $sRun _ArraySort($aFileList, 0, 1) GUICtrlSetData($idCombo, _ArrayToString($aFileList, "|", 1)) While True Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ExitLoop Case $idButton $sRun = GUICtrlRead($idCombo) ExitLoop EndSwitch WEnd If $sRun And FileExists(@DesktopDir & "\" & $sRun) Then Beep(2000, 50) ShellExecute($sRun, "", @DesktopDir) EndIf _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hBitmap) _GDIPlus_ImageDispose($hImage) _GDIPlus_Shutdown() EndFunc ;==>Example
Nine Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago Yep another way to skin the same cat. “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
Nine Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago 2 hours ago, rot3r said: can cause performance draw back to create multiple gui windows for each? I wouldn't worry about it. “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy
rot3r Posted 1 hour ago Author Posted 1 hour ago 21 hours ago, Nine said: Since all the images are PNG, I would create a $WS_POPUP , BitOr($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD) GUI window for each, and use _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx to set the image inside the window (just like main GUI). i can create multiple item using you method expandcollapse popup#include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WinAPIConstants.au3> #include <GDIPlus.au3> #include <GuiComboBox.au3> #include <File.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <GuiConstants.au3> #include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <GUICtrlPic.au3> Opt("MustDeclareVars", True) Global Const $AC_SRC_ALPHA = 1 Example() Func Example() ; Load PNG file as GDI bitmap _GDIPlus_Startup() Local $sPngSrc = @ScriptDir & "\main.png" Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($sPngSrc) ; Extract image width and height from PNG Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage) Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage) ; Create layered window Local $hGUI = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_LAYERED) Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI, -1, -1, $hBitmap) ; Register notification messages GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NCHITTEST, WM_NCHITTEST) GUISetState() WinSetOnTop($hGUI, "", $WINDOWS_ONTOP) Local $sPngSrc3 = @ScriptDir & "\item.png" Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($sPngSrc3) ; Extract image width and height from PNG Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage) Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage) ; Create layered window Local $hGUI3 = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, BitOR($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD),$hGUI) Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI3, -1, -1, $hBitmap) GUISetState() Local $sPngSrc = @ScriptDir & "\item.png" Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($sPngSrc) ; Extract image width and height from PNG Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage) Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage) ; Create layered window Local $hGUI4 = GUICreate("", $iWidth, $iHeight, -1, -1, $WS_POPUP, BitOR($WS_EX_LAYERED, $WS_EX_MDICHILD),$hGUI) Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap($hImage) _WinAPI_UpdateLayeredWindowEx($hGUI4, -1, -1, $hBitmap) GUISetState() ; get list of files on desktop, show in combobox While True Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ExitLoop ExitLoop EndSwitch WEnd _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hBitmap) _GDIPlus_ImageDispose($hImage) _GDIPlus_Shutdown() EndFunc ;==>Example Func WM_NCHITTEST($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam) Return $HTCAPTION EndFunc ;==>WM_NCHITTEST now i have some question. 1- item that imported are movable and can be drag and move, how to fix position on the main windows? 2- how we can create hover effect for them like changing picture also how we track the event like mouse click?
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