Non-rectangular Forms

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Mustafa Rabie

Hi All,

i am working on a non-rectangular application. I searched and looked
everywhere n all the sites and resources i found said the same thing:
1) Create image and set a certain color as the background color
2) set this image as the form's background image
3) set boarderstyle to none
4) set transperancykey to the background color of the image u created in
step 1.

but it's not working with me, i tried different colors, different image
formats,etc but nothing. I even downloaded a sample app and didn't work for
me.

Can anyone plz help me with how can this be solved?? is there a certain file
format that i need to use for this to be achieved?

Thanks
Mustafa
 
Mustafa Rabie said:
i am working on a non-rectangular application. I searched and looked
everywhere n all the sites and resources i found said the same thing:
1) Create image and set a certain color as the background color
2) set this image as the form's background image
3) set boarderstyle to none
4) set transperancykey to the background color of the image u created in
step 1.

but it's not working with me, i tried different colors, different image
formats,etc but nothing. I even downloaded a sample app and didn't work
for me.
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Are you running your screen in 32 bpp mode?

Alternatively you can create a region of appropriate shape and assign it to
the form's 'Region' property at runtime:

<URL:http://www.bobpowell.net/region_from_bitmap.htm>
 
running windows xp sp2
Bob Powell said:
Just sanity check that you're running at least Windows 2000 please.

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