Form With Transparent Color (Windows XP/2000)

Category:

Windows 2000/XP

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Amol

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

This gives you a transparent form with two lines of code. It uses the SetLayeredWindowAttributes API function, which only works on Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "USER32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long Private Declare Function SetLayeredWindowAttributes Lib "USER32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal crKey As Long, ByVal bAlpha As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long

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