System windows forms control opacity

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Layout: fixed fluid. Software Developer. United States. First Prev Next. How to use in VB. Hi, I think this article will help me solve a flickering issue i have in a VB. Net app.

Im not sure if its that ive been working on this for 2 days without sleep but my brains are mush at the moment and i cant seem to get this to work. Ive created a class lib and have referenced it in my application but i cant figure out how to wrap the form and use this class in VB. For a form not shown in taskbar? Great API.

I really appreciate it. After integrating it into a ton of stuff I'm using, I realized that the opacity changes won't occur if Form. I'm sure there is a fairly simple work around for this, but I'm not sure where to look.

Any pointers? Re: For a form not shown in taskbar? Thanks, Glad you like it. As per your problem. Its not that it doesn't work with a window that has ShowInTaskbar set to false. The problem lies in that when you change the "ShowInTaskbar" property on a form windows destroys that form and creates a new one remembering the state of objects on that form.

I have no idea why or exactly how it works. But your window's handle changes when you change that property. And this, the setlayeredwindow api no longer has a connection to you form. Sorry for that inconvenience but it is out of my hands and has something to do with the way Windows handles that property. Simple to work around though. Sory for my bad english. Very good job. How about child forms? If you mean using MDI, then no.

But it will work on any top level form, so if you need such a thing, you can create a form and use an event to have it keep position with the main form as if it were a child. Although some may argue a few of the finer points, your work here - research, solution and follow-on article - is exemplary.

More often than not, general developers look towards simpler solutions in order to build applications more rapidly, and often we are I am including myself in this group often devoid of the initiative it takes to look at issues at a very deep level. I for one get frustrated at why things work the way they do sometimes, but do not have the time to dig into the deep unknown to resolve them. As to the one who commented you don't know what you're talking about - I could not disagree more.

There is sound logic in your reasoning - maybe not perfect, but sound. If nothing else, I actually learned quite a bit from reading both the article and other peoples responses. You get a 5 from me. Thanks for the kind comment. A lot of time when into this. In fact, I've done several applications where I had a slider so the end-user could set the opacity of a "secondary" form on the fly, and I have never seen flicker as you describe The comment by the other commenter on your article noted : "It seems that the behavior of transparent colors changes when a window's opacity is set to something other than solid.

I would guess such change happens for exactly the same reason as the flicker. Would I be correct in guessing that the changing transparent-color behavior would also be solved with the techniques illustrated here? I look forward to your continuing to develop the article.

Re: a few suggestions Diamonddrake Oct They both use the same technology developed by windows but the system I choose still allows the paint event of the form to update the graphics object. Windows Forms controls do not support true transparency. The background of a transparent Windows Forms control is painted by its parent. The Button control doesn't support a transparent backcolor even when the BackColor property is set to Transparent.

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Raises the Invalidated event. Raises the KeyDown event. Raises the KeyPress event. Raises the KeyUp event. Raises the Layout event. Raises the Leave event. Raises the LocationChanged event. Raises the LostFocus event. Raises the MarginChanged event. Raises the MouseCaptureChanged event. Raises the MouseClick event.

Raises the MouseDoubleClick event. Raises the MouseDown event. Raises the MouseEnter event. Raises the MouseHover event. Raises the MouseLeave event. Raises the MouseMove event. Raises the MouseUp event. Raises the MouseWheel event. Raises the Move event. Raises the PaddingChanged event. Raises the Paint event. Raises the BackColorChanged event when the BackColor property value of the control's container changes.

Raises the BackgroundImageChanged event when the BackgroundImage property value of the control's container changes. Raises the BindingContextChanged event when the BindingContext property value of the control's container changes. Raises the ParentChanged event. Raises the EnabledChanged event when the Enabled property value of the control's container changes.

Raises the FontChanged event when the Font property value of the control's container changes. Raises the ForeColorChanged event when the ForeColor property value of the control's container changes.

Raises the VisibleChanged event when the Visible property value of the control's container changes. Raises the PreviewKeyDown event. Raises the QueryContinueDrag event. Raises the RegionChanged event. Raises the Resize event. Raises the RightToLeftChanged event. Raises the SizeChanged event. Raises the StyleChanged event.

Raises the SystemColorsChanged event. Raises the TabIndexChanged event. Raises the TabStopChanged event. Raises the TextChanged event. Raises the Validated event. Raises the Validating event. Raises the VisibleChanged event. Forces the control to invalidate its client area and immediately redraw itself and any child controls.

Resets the BackColor property to its default value. Causes a control bound to the BindingSource to reread all the items in the list and refresh their displayed values. Resets the Cursor property to its default value. Resets the Font property to its default value. Resets the ForeColor property to its default value.

Resets the ImeMode property to its default value. Resets the control to handle the MouseLeave event. Resets the RightToLeft property to its default value. Resets the Text property to its default value Empty. Converts the specified ContentAlignment to the appropriate ContentAlignment to support right-to-left text.

Converts the specified HorizontalAlignment to the appropriate HorizontalAlignment to support right-to-left text. Activates a child control. Optionally specifies the direction in the tab order to select the control from. Sets a value indicating how a control will behave when its AutoSize property is enabled. Sets a specified ControlStyles flag to either true or false.

Returns a String containing the name of the Component , if any. This method should not be overridden. Occurs when the value of the BackColor property changes. Occurs when the value of the BackgroundImage property changes. Occurs when the BackgroundImageLayout property changes. Occurs when the value of the BindingContext property changes. Occurs when the value of the CausesValidation property changes. Occurs when the value of the ClientSize property changes. Occurs when the value of the ContextMenu property changes.

Occurs when the value of the ContextMenuStrip property changes. Occurs when a new control is added to the Control. Occurs when a control is removed from the Control. Occurs when the value of the Cursor property changes. Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose method.

Occurs when the value of the Dock property changes. Occurs when the DPI setting for a control is changed programmatically after the DPI of its parent control or form has changed. Occurs when the DPI setting for a control is changed programmatically before a DPI change event for its parent control or form has occurred. Occurs when the Enabled property value has changed.

Occurs when the Font property value changes. Occurs when the ForeColor property value changes. Occurs when the ImeMode property has changed.

Occurs when the Location property value has changed. Occurs when the Parent property value changes. Occurs before the KeyDown event when a key is pressed while focus is on this control. Occurs when AccessibleObject is providing help to accessibility applications. Occurs during a drag-and-drop operation and enables the drag source to determine whether the drag-and-drop operation should be canceled.

Occurs when the value of the Region property changes. Occurs when the RightToLeft property value changes. Occurs when the Size property value changes.

Occurs when the TabIndex property value changes. Occurs when the TabStop property value changes. Occurs when the Text property value changes. Occurs when the Visible property value changes. Calling CreateGraphics before the control's handle has been created on a background thread can cause illegal cross thread calls. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

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