Non rectangular form

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Hi. I wanted to create a non rectangular form (Winamp, BSPlayer), and I
followed the instructions in MSDN on the topic. Created a bitmap, set
the background color of the bitmap to blue 0000ff, set the bitmap as my
form background, set the transarency parameter of the form to 0000ff,
set border style to none and guess what, nothing happened. :) So I'm
asking for help.
Thank you...
 
Can you show your code? It would be easier, since we have no clue if
you actually followed the MSDN article as you said.
 
Hi. I wanted to create a non rectangular form (Winamp, BSPlayer), and I
followed the instructions in MSDN on the topic. Created a bitmap, set
the background color of the bitmap to blue 0000ff, set the bitmap as my
form background, set the transarency parameter of the form to 0000ff,
set border style to none and guess what, nothing happened. :) So I'm
asking for help.
Thank you...
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It's really not the right way of creating a non-rectangular form.
Because what you are trying to do is still a rectangular form with some
parts hidden.
You need to use Form.Region property to set your form position and
shape. For that you need to create a GraphicsPath instance, provide a
shape and assign it to the form:

GraphicsPath gp = new GraphicsPath(FillMode.Alternate);
gp.AddEllipse(new Rectangle(1,1,100,100));
YourForm.Region = new Region(gp);

This is a good place to start with...

Hope it helped,
MuZZY
 
Nicholas said:
Can you show your code? It would be easier, since we have no clue if
you actually followed the MSDN article as you said.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure if that MSDN article is up to date, as there is a standard
way of making a pure non-rectangular form - look in my other post for
the subj.

MuZZy
 
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