Holes in Form but controls appear over holes

[HeavenCore]

transparent MDIChild Form?

Hi i need to create a form that has the image (attatched) as its background and the rest be made transparent, however when panels are set to visable=true they need to be visable over the transparent area, how would i do this? cheers.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Please post in the forum most appropriate to the topic. Moved from Data Access.

Set the TarnsparencyKey property of the form and then make its BacColor the same value. The form will then be completely transparent but any controls that are not the same colour will be visible.

 

[HeavenCore]

woops, sorry for posting in wrong section

but yea i have tried the key/back method and although it works, as soon as i set the form with an mdi parent is no longer works, why is this? can it be fixed somehow? cheers

Is Transparency on a child form not possible?

 

[jmcilhinney]

Hmmm... it would appear not. There may be some way around it but I would not like like to hazard a guess what that would be.