BristolMatt
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Hi
I am looking to create a set of transparent controls to fade-in/fade-out like a cross between a tooltip and the info boxes that appear in your text in word. The effect I want is like the popup mail messages in Outlook 2003.
One way I can do this is by creating a form adding the controls to it and then adjusting the opacity of the form. However when the user hovers over text box that initiates this popup, clicks the popup, moves over the popup etc, the focus transfers from the parent form - a tad distracting. I have tried re-activating this parent form but with no sucess.
Next I abandoned the form approach and added a panel with the following line in New()
Any ideas on how to create a control that has transparency like the opacity of forms or how to add a form that does not take focus would be great.
Cheers
I am looking to create a set of transparent controls to fade-in/fade-out like a cross between a tooltip and the info boxes that appear in your text in word. The effect I want is like the popup mail messages in Outlook 2003.
One way I can do this is by creating a form adding the controls to it and then adjusting the opacity of the form. However when the user hovers over text box that initiates this popup, clicks the popup, moves over the popup etc, the focus transfers from the parent form - a tad distracting. I have tried re-activating this parent form but with no sucess.
Next I abandoned the form approach and added a panel with the following line in New()
SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, True)
but it only adjusts the back colour and not any background images etc.Any ideas on how to create a control that has transparency like the opacity of forms or how to add a form that does not take focus would be great.
Cheers