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 Merrion's tutorial about moving captionless forms:

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72831

[badgerboy]

i couldn't 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