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Re: How to create/set a gui without background?
Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 02:04
by N_athan
This is how it would look in case the background was correctly removed, nice edges and transparent background:
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There's nothing with moving controls, what I was pointing to is the result of drawing the controls on a GUI and setting it parent to the layered:
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The white background (the GUI background) gets merged with the picture.
Re: How to create/set a gui without background?
Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 04:37
by Hellbent
N_athan wrote: ↑24 Jan 2022, 02:04
There's nothing with moving controls, what I was pointing to is the result of drawing the controls on a GUI and setting it parent to the layered:
Sorry, your op made it sound like you wanted a rounded window with clean edges and your image had a opaque rounded rectangle not a semi-transparent one.
I don't think I know what you are trying to do other than that.
Re: How to create/set a gui without background?
Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 04:54
by teadrinker
I would just create a layered window from the bitmap and an owned window with controls which moves with the owner.
Re: How to create/set a gui without background?
Posted: 24 Jan 2022, 08:07
by lmstearn
Another thing to try is subclass the controls in order to draw and paint them the way you want- would it help if they were also flagged as layered windows?
Edit: There's a very interesting old
thread on
WS_EX_COMPOSITED, by the looks of it sure to solve some problems,- bound to uncover more.
Alternatively, re the above graphic in your last post- ditch the layering and go the direct composition way with something like wpf and use
WS_EX_NOREDIRECTIONBITMAP, but that, like
SetWindowRgn, bricks DWM for the window.