Here's a quick question for you. I have a VB.NET project (though help in C# would be just as useful) and wish to emulate the alpha-blended hover windows that can be seen in Windows Live Messenger. Here's a screenshot:
Similarly the 'toast' popups when a contact signs in use a similar, alpha-blended effect.
Individual elements of this aren't so much of an issue - hovering and fading in/out can be achieved with relative ease, but the alpha-blended background-image of the window has got me stuck.
I've found tutorials that involve inheriting the standard Windows Form class and can produce entire forms that will take a 32-bit PNG as an image but I'm not convinced this is the most efficient manner of achieving this. Any thoughts?
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Here's a quick question for you. I have a VB.NET project (though help in C# would be just as useful) and wish to emulate the alpha-blended hover windows that can be seen in Windows Live Messenger. Here's a screenshot:
Similarly the 'toast' popups when a contact signs in use a similar, alpha-blended effect.
Individual elements of this aren't so much of an issue - hovering and fading in/out can be achieved with relative ease, but the alpha-blended background-image of the window has got me stuck.
I've found tutorials that involve inheriting the standard Windows Form class and can produce entire forms that will take a 32-bit PNG as an image but I'm not convinced this is the most efficient manner of achieving this. Any thoughts?
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