shaped forms

[badgerboy]

is it possible to create shaped forms that look good. Can I set areas of the form to be transparent so it creates the illusion of it being shaped or not there but its just transparent.

Also how can I preview HTML in a form or RTB (Rich text box)

Thanking in advanced Badgerboy

 

[Merrion]

Check out the RegionMaster .NET control code

 

[mutant]

Creating forms that dont have a standard shape is very easy

Declare a new Drawing2D.GraphicsPath.
Add different shapes that you want.

graphpath.AddEllipse  or whatever you want

Then set the region of your form to that.

Me.Region = New Region(graphpath)

Now your form will look like an ellipse

To make things even better follow Merrions tutorial about moving captionless forms:
http://www.computerhelp.forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72831

 

[badgerboy]

i couldnt get it to work kept coming up with this error

Overload resoultion failed beacause AddEllispe accepts this number of arguements

please help
thanking in advanced Badgerboy

 

[mutant]

That was just an example of what you can add, you have to type in the actual values , like:

graphpath.AddEllipse(100, 100, 100, 100) just an example values