Adobe CS-suite-like splashwindow

[Pelle Beckman]

Hi,

I want to do a toolbar which behaves like those seen on
Mac OS X - dropdown, partially hidden behind the "main" window
(for example screenshots see Transmit3 - www.panic.com).

Then I saw the splash screens of the Adobe Create Suite applications
(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc) and saw that they
have done what I'm looking for - they've got a simple image display
on screen without borders, but with an alpha-channel dropshadow.

Where do I find information on how to do this in Windows.Forms & C#?

Starters, links, info?
Code would be very helpful.

note: I'm not very experienced with C#-development, but I
have been doing C++ under Win32 for some time.

Thanks,
-- Pelle

 

[Guest]

Hi, I posted something on codeproject a while back that might guide you in
the right direction:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/floatingForm.asp

This shows how to use the NativeWindow class to create a borderless empty
window and how you can paint in that window with transparency. Using this
example you can simply replace the painting part with your own paint routine
that draws a translucent image or something similar,

Hope it helps,