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ravage73

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« on: September 23, 2003, 07:16:00 PM »
when will the skinner support png previews? sorry if this question has been asked already.
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geniusalz

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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2003, 05:19:00 PM »
Whenever I can find a free activex control (ocx) like the "Image control" in VB.
Most I have seen don't work with transparency.

However, non-transparent stuff is easy, and I will try to incorporate it in the next release.
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ravage73

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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2003, 06:41:00 PM »
cool! thanks
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Yuyu

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2003, 06:27:00 AM »
Here are a few urls I picked up on the search for a freeware OCX for you. Not sure if any of these will help but, hey I tried.
Figured I could at least do that since I use your program alot to build skins for myself(Not ready to share yet, I'm still on the learning curve with skinning)


http://www.softuariu...m/downloads.htm
http://www.downlinx....l/310/31063.htm
http://www.softpile....5788_index.htmlhttp://www.codeproje...map/cximage.asp
http://www.softpile....5788_index.html
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geniusalz

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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2003, 06:50:00 AM »
Thanks for the links, but i was looking for a FREE control that I could use.  I'm not paying $100+ for a licence to use a control to just display a pic!

Another thing about the control:

I'm using the label control, image control, the line control, and the windows media control, all inside a picturebox (big black box).
All of these are "windowless" controls.  Even mediaplayer has an option to draw without using a window.  This just means that instead of creating its own child-window (or rectangular opaque area), the control "draws" on its container (the picturebox).  This lets you have transparent boxes, and lines that don't create an opaque rectangular area around them.

Therefore, to prevent the png from showing up on top of everything else, and to actually be semi-transparent, it will have to be a windowless control.

That's what I am looking for, and it's pretty hard to find.

Edit: Ahh, now I found out what you call it.  Windowless control a.k.a lightweight control
Edit 2: Lol.  The original edit looked like I found the control, which I HAVEN'T ... still looking for one
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