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A little Bmax help
« on: September 28, 2008, 09:27:21 pm »
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How would I make a window transparent?

As in, making abstract shaped windows (a blob for example). or making Black a transparent color.

Tell me if I am confusing.

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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 09:32:45 pm »
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With difficulty. Functionality like that isn't included in blitzmax by design, as there would be difficulties keeping it cross-compatible. However there are a few functions you can import from the win32 api to do that, once I've finished eating, I'll dig them out for you.
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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 09:42:07 pm »
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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 10:43:27 pm »
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Is there a way to do it without MaxGUI?

I tried defining the win32 function and using it, but nothing happened. No error comes up, but nothing happens.

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SetLayeredWindowAttributes( hwnd, $00 , Byte(.5), LWA_COLORKEY)

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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 10:46:46 pm »
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Are you trying to do it on the default graphics window? If so thats not going to work, the way the canvas on the window is drawn all you will see is a black square.
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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 10:48:52 pm »
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Quote from: Infini on September 28, 2008, 10:46:46 pm
Are you trying to do it on the default graphics window? If so thats not going to work, the way the canvas on the window is drawn all you will see is a black square.

Yes, and yes all I see is a black square....
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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 10:50:08 pm »
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Tough luck I'm afraid :P. You could always import all the win32 gui code and create the windows yourself but thats goner be a !@#$%, and I'm not going to define all the code needed for that :P.
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Re: A little Bmax help
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 10:52:09 pm »
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eh, there goes zeDock : (.
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