BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Transparent ClientArea of Form.          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Graphics View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Kim Pedersen Guest Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:44 pm    Post subject: Transparent ClientArea of Form. Hi I need to make only the clientArea of a form more or less transparent. I did Google this links //works nice but only for whole form (incl Caption and frame) http://www.delphipages.com/news/detaildocs.cfm?ID=63 //this do not make component placed on form transparent //and the transparent is on/off only. //It also when clicking in the clientarea taking focus on the form below ,like the client //area is not a part of form. http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 Any Suggestions. TIA Kim Pedersen Back to top Don Taylor Guest Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:33 am    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. Hi Kim, See what Peter Below says in other messages in this group, about transparency within forms. Windows doesn't really support it - you can have a transparent parent form, but not a tranparent control within a form. Note that the TranparentColor property makes the mouse click through to the form underneath whenever it's over a pixel of TransparentColorValue, but the AlphaBlend property does not - it controls the translucency of the whole form with the AlphaBlendValue property (0 = completely transparent, 255 = opaque). Regards, Don Taylor. "Kim Pedersen" <kim (AT) elprint (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Hi I need to make only the clientArea of a form more or less transparent. I did Google this links //works nice but only for whole form (incl Caption and frame) http://www.delphipages.com/news/detaildocs.cfm?ID=63 //this do not make component placed on form transparent //and the transparent is on/off only. //It also when clicking in the clientarea taking focus on the form below ,like the client //area is not a part of form. http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 Any Suggestions. TIA Kim Pedersen Back to top Kim Pedersen Guest Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. Hi Don - Thanks for your answer . I better refrase my question ,,, -> I have an completly empty form (sounds stupid) , with buttons in caption. I would like to AlphaBlend the client Area , but not the frame and caption of the form. Regards Kim Don Taylor wrote: Quote: Hi Kim, See what Peter Below says in other messages in this group, about transparency within forms. Windows doesn't really support it - you can have a transparent parent form, but not a tranparent control within a form. Note that the TranparentColor property makes the mouse click through to the form underneath whenever it's over a pixel of TransparentColorValue, but the AlphaBlend property does not - it controls the translucency of the whole form with the AlphaBlendValue property (0 = completely transparent, 255 = opaque). Regards, Don Taylor. "Kim Pedersen" <kim (AT) elprint (DOT) com> wrote in message news:427a314c$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Hi I need to make only the clientArea of a form more or less transparent. I did Google this links //works nice but only for whole form (incl Caption and frame) http://www.delphipages.com/news/detaildocs.cfm?ID=63 //this do not make component placed on form transparent //and the transparent is on/off only. //It also when clicking in the clientarea taking focus on the form below ,like the client //area is not a part of form. http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 Any Suggestions. TIA Kim Pedersen Back to top Kim Pedersen Guest Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. Hi Don - Thanks for your reply . I better refrase my question ,,, -> I have an completly empty form (sounds stupid) , with buttons in caption. I would like to AlphaBlend the client Area with the area under the form , but not the frame and caption of the form. The Purpose is that when I move the form around on the screen I can inside(clientarea) can see the underlying background of the screen in a alpha blend. For a kind of capturing the area. I know I can capture the area under the form for each onformMove and then alpha blend it and show the result in image comp. ,, But I would like to avoid that. Regards Kim Don Taylor wrote: Quote: Hi Kim, See what Peter Below says in other messages in this group, about transparency within forms. Windows doesn't really support it - you can have a transparent parent form, but not a tranparent control within a form. Note that the TranparentColor property makes the mouse click through to the form underneath whenever it's over a pixel of TransparentColorValue, but the AlphaBlend property does not - it controls the translucency of the whole form with the AlphaBlendValue property (0 = completely transparent, 255 = opaque). Regards, Don Taylor. "Kim Pedersen" <kim (AT) elprint (DOT) com> wrote in message news:427a314c$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Hi I need to make only the clientArea of a form more or less transparent. I did Google this links //works nice but only for whole form (incl Caption and frame) http://www.delphipages.com/news/detaildocs.cfm?ID=63 //this do not make component placed on form transparent //and the transparent is on/off only. //It also when clicking in the clientarea taking focus on the form below ,like the client //area is not a part of form. http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 Any Suggestions. TIA Kim Pedersen Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. In article <42823328$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, Kim Pedersen wrote: Quote: I have an completly empty form (sounds stupid) , with buttons in caption. I would like to AlphaBlend the client Area with the area under the form , but not the frame and caption of the form. Hm, what you could do is construct a region including the caption bar and the border and use that as window region (see setWindowRgn). This would basically eliminate the whole client area. But that gives 100% transparency in effect, not a shading like you could achieve it with alphablending. -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top Kim Pedersen Guest Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. Hi Peter , thanks Quote: But that gives 100% transparency in effect that could be accepted . Is that what they do in this link . http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 The problem here is that if the user click in the clientarea , the focus goto the form in the area below the client area (like my form is not existing). can that be avoided ?? Best Regards Kim Pedersen Peter Below (TeamB) wrote: Quote: In article <42823328$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, Kim Pedersen wrote: I have an completly empty form (sounds stupid) , with buttons in caption. I would like to AlphaBlend the client Area with the area under the form , but not the frame and caption of the form. Hm, what you could do is construct a region including the caption bar and the border and use that as window region (see setWindowRgn). This would basically eliminate the whole client area. But that gives 100% transparency in effect, not a shading like you could achieve it with alphablending. -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top Charles Adriano - Brazil Guest Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 12:50 am    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. hi kin see the components JvTransparentForm unde component palete JvApplication, forms http://homepages.borland.com/jedi/jvcl/ charles Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Transparent ClientArea of Form. In article <42828642$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, Kim Pedersen wrote: Quote: Is that what they do in this link . http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=982 Don't know. I'm using an off-line reader with dial-up to read the groups, so it's a bit of a hassle to follow such links. Quote: The problem here is that if the user click in the clientarea , the focus goto the form in the area below the client area (like my form is not existing). can that be avoided ?? No, not with this approach. Anything outside the window region is simply not part of the window. However, you can confine the mouse to a specific area, e.g your forms caption. See the ClipCursor API function. Perhaps another approach may also suite your needs. 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