Transparancy and Picshow

Krekorie · Member Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

I understand that the Picshow canvas cannot be transparant as stated in the readme, but I also cannot put transparant forms on top of picshow.

I would like to have a (transparant) image continuesly on top. Anybody any ideas?

Hope there is help out there!

Kambiz · Administrator Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 314

The TImage control is a non-windowed control and TPicShow is a Windowed control, so you cannot put a TImage instance over a TPicShow instance.

However, you can use a transparent panel and put the TImage control on it, and then put the panel over the TPicShow control. If you search the net, you will find some transparent controls.

Krekorie · Member Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

Thanks Kambiz for your response.

I have done that (transparant panel) and that works fine. The only problem is that only bitmap can be used in such an environment. I would like to have a transparant logo on screen like e.g. CNN. High resolution makes the logo look awfull.
I know this is not a Picshow issue, so I will have to try my luck elswhere.

Thanks for your help