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Ok, I've been trying to figure out how to fade a GUI window that has a png image containing transparency. I can get it to fade just fine if I don't make the background of the GUI transparent and just ignore the fact that I'm using a png with transparency. However, if I make the gui transparent and try to fade, two things happen. 1) The window will fade in and out, but the background color will not be transparent, or 2) The window's background will go transparent while leaving a "halo" or "fuzz" around the png image, and the window will not fade in or out.

Here's my code (with a test image):



Here's the test image:



Note: The "axpssp_logo.png" image is just a png file with transparency to show the gyst of my situation. It's not the exact image I will want to display, but it's got the same properties.

Once I get this to work, this will display the on-load info for a pretty involved program (over 185 pages of code so far), so I'm hoping to get it looking good if at all possible...

If anyone can figure this out, I will appreciate it IMMENSELY. I've been beating my head over this issue for days now... Thanks,

1Ender1

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First of all, call your -Caption only after you make the window transparent.
Thats according to the AHK help file.

I am still playing with your code - it shows some bizarre behavior when I move the -Caption, but still, maybe thats a hint that may help you figure it out.

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Thanks; I had actually typed this bit of code from memory and must have stuck that in the wrong place; I checked my code, and it was in the right place there. The problem is, when the -Caption is placed after the window is made transparent, it will not fade in. I ran it as I had posted it, and violá, it faded just fine but no transparency...



Thanks for checking it out- this would help a lot of the effects that I have coded into the program...

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Even without your PNG, and even without the DllCalls, I was unable to make both Transparent and TransColor work together. Are you sure they CAN work together?

The DllCall you are using, seem to do the same as if you use Gui, Transparent, so I tested this.

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Thanks Icarus. No, I'm not sure they can work together. I can't think of a way to display the transparency in a png while fading it in or out without this solution, though, as SplashImage doesn't support png images.

Still looking for ideas, if anybody has any. It's not a big chunk of code, but it's pretty tricksome...

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I've played around as well
This should be quite usable.

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Thanks for working on it HotKey.

However, similar issues are still present. When the code is run with a darker background behind the gui windows, there is a white "fuzz" where the fading to transparency is in the png image... It makes the image look pretty bad when anything darker than white is behind the fading window. Also, after the png fades in, it flickers before showing the whole solid background and fading out again...

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