{"id":610,"date":"2011-07-08T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/?p=610"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:04","slug":"form-transparent-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/forms\/form-transparent-area","title":{"rendered":"Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Transparency is actually simulated by drawing the pixels of the Parent, which is the form. \u00a0Therefore you only see the form pixels, stacking effects don’t work. One approach is to just draw the images in the form’s Paint event, or consider WPF which has a very different rendering model that easily supports transparency.<\/p>\n

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Creating a transparent cutout within a form<\/h4>\n

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  Transparency is actually simulated by drawing the pixels of the Parent, which is the form. \u00a0Therefore you only see the form pixels, stacking effects don’t work. One approach is to just draw the images in the form’s Paint event, or consider WPF which has a very different rendering model that easily supports transparency.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}