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marlap



Joined: 01 Mar 2008
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Location: Canada

PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:22 pm    Post subject: newbie having problems with GUI Reply with quote

This may sound like a strange request, But I've been trying to create a user-resizeable GUI, whose entire background is see-through (invisible?). I Also want it to be always on top. Does nothing else but that. (My particular background color is: 0xD8E9EC )

I have a feeling that this script will be super easy for most of you, but I'm having difficulty understanding how to use the various Gui functions, and have been going around in circles trying to perform this simple GUI task. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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happytodd



Joined: 12 Nov 2007
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Location: South Australia

PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:15 pm    Post subject: help Reply with quote

I recommend you searching for transparent GUI. This will help you with the invisible background thing.
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engunneer



Joined: 30 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if it's not visible, why resize it?
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marlap



Joined: 01 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

happytodd wrote:
I recommend you searching for transparent GUI. This will help you with the invisible background thing.

I've been searching, haven't found what I needed yet though, thanks anyway.

engunneer wrote:
if it's not visible, why resize it?


The borders will hopefully not be invisible, they will act as a linear ruler to aid typists in following rows of text when they are typing data from an imaging system into a data handling program.

Why doesn't this line work, when 0xD8E9EC is the background color? :
Code:
WinSet, TransColor, 0xD8E9EC, 0
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marlap



Joined: 01 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your time, much appreciated. I managed to get it to work as requested.
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