transparent (or bmp background) edit box

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dw0rek

Joined: 05 Feb 2007
Posts: 7

dw0rek 08 Feb 2007, 10:19

Heya.

I tried to search around a little but have not found any way to do this yet. Do anyone of you guys know how to make an 'EDIT' box or a 'RichEdit' to be either transparent or uses a bmp as background?

I know that many of the api functions for transparent seems to be only available for windows 2k and up. Im running on windows vista so hope that wont be a problem.

this is from MSDN and is used to change the background color of a 'RichEdit' box, but it cant be used to make its background transparent i think.

Code:

lResult = SendMessage(      // returns LRESULT in lResult
   (HWND) hWndControl,      // handle to destination control
   (UINT) EM_SETBKGNDCOLOR,         // message ID
   (WPARAM) wParam,         // = (WPARAM) () wParam;
   (LPARAM) lParam          // = (LPARAM) () lParam;
);

Anyways, if you know how to make it id love to see a solution.

Cheers /dw0rek

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08 Feb 2007, 10:19

MichaelH

Joined: 03 May 2005
Posts: 402

MichaelH 08 Feb 2007, 12:32

Hope these links are what you're looking for.

layered/transparent window example by coconut

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=1521

Simple way to make your window transparent by that tired fellow that likes to sleep sleep ( excuse my stutter Smile

).

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=5066

08 Feb 2007, 12:32

dw0rek

Joined: 05 Feb 2007
Posts: 7

dw0rek 10 Feb 2007, 07:01

Thx for the link to an awesome tutorial ill read it and learn it for sure, but:

Ultrascall wrote:

Please note that you cannot use this style for child windows. That means that you cannot make a single button/edit/static/etc.

So it cannot make a single edit box transparent.
What i want to do is to use a 'STATIC' dialogitem for background, and then somehow get the background of the 'EDIT' dialogitem to use the same background as the 'STATIC' dialogitem which is behind it. Either by using the same bmp image for the edit box's background or by making the color white on the edit box transparent somehow.

Would you know how to do this?

Thx

Cheers /dw0rek

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10 Feb 2007, 07:01

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