by Ali Atiq (5 Submissions)
Category: Custom Controls/Forms/Menus
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Mon 16th June 2003
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Makes command button control transparent with the form background picture.
API Declarations
Option Explicit
Public Function MakeButtonsTransparent(frm As Form)
Dim ctl As Control
Static StartupFlag%
On Error GoTo MakeCommandTransparen_ErrHandler
If StartupFlag% > 0 Then Exit Function
frm.Controls.Add "VB.PictureBox", "tmpPic", frm
With frm!tmpPic
.AutoRedraw = True
For Each ctl In frm.Controls
If TypeOf ctl Is CommandButton Then
.BorderStyle = 0
.Visible = True ' this one also
.Cls
.Move ctl.Left, ctl.Top, ctl.Width, ctl.Height
.CurrentX = (.ScaleWidth / 2) - (frm.TextWidth(ctl.Caption) / 2)
.CurrentY = (.ScaleHeight / 2) - (frm.TextHeight(ctl.Caption) / 2)
.PaintPicture frm.Image, 0, 0, , , .Left, .Top
frm!tmpPic.Print ctl.Caption
ctl.Picture = .Image
ctl.Caption = ""
End If
Next ctl
.Visible = False
End With
StartupFlag% = StartupFlag% + 1
Exit Function
MakeCommandTransparen_ErrHandler:
frm!tmpPic.Visible = False
StartupFlag% = StartupFlag% + 1
MsgBox Err.Description
End Function
VBcoders
Option Explicit
'Load picture to the form _
Load command control _
Set property [Style=1-Graphic] _
Private Sub Form_Load()
MakeButtonsTransparent Me
End Sub
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