I have a GUI like this:
Gui +LastFound +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow -Caption
Gui, Add, Text,, 00:00
WinSet, Transparent, 200
Gui, Show, NoActivate
Screenshot:
Is there a way to gradually blur the background, from outside to inside? I would like to hide to border of the box. I see nothing helpful in Gui.
By using the out of the box commands, you really only have a transparency "slider" as your only tool.
The workaround to get the desired effect is to have a transparent background with a custom transparent image on top. i.e. you create your gradient effect that you want in your picture (e.g. a transparent .PNG), and you overlay your controls on top of the picture something like this:
Gui +LastFound +AlwaysOnTop +ToolWindow -Caption
Gui, Add, Picture, w100 h100 , C:\TransparentBackground.png
Gui, Add, Text,xp10 yp10, 00:00
WinSet, Transparent, 200
Gui, Show, NoActivate
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How would i go about removing the thin border around the edges of the Progress-bar tool? There doesn't seem to be any properties to change the style. It looks like the default 3d border.
It is not the best solution from a programmatically correct point of view, but it works and is an easy solution.
You create a Panel control
You put the BorderStyle property of the Panel to None
You moove your Progress Bar inside the Panel control
You rezise the Panel and the Progress Bar so that dimension of the Progress Bar is a few pixels larger than the dimension of the Panel control. This way, when the controls are drawn, the borders of the Progress Bar do not show because they are outside of Panel control
You set the Anchors property of the Progress Bar to Left, Right, Top and Bottom so that when you rezise the Panel control, the Progress Bar inside resizes well.
You resize and place your Panel where you need it (and the Progress Bar will resize well into it)
And your done. As I said, it is not a nice solution from a programmation point of view, but overall it works well and allow you to do what you want without spending too much time.
I clicked on the foreground/background little square tool icons, selected the color I want and clicked ok. The small tool icon is showing the new color but the image itself hasn't changed the color. And yes confirmed that the mode is RGB.
You need to use a tool to apply the color as needed...
Did you use the paint bucket or brush to actually add the new color to the image?
Simply changing the color of this box does not change the foreground background color automatically
First Off, I found this extremely useful page on theme brushes:
http://metro.excastle.com/xaml-system-brushes
So Roughly, on startup for WinRT/XAML I am setting my theme brush for a textbox in a stylesheet:
Foreground = TextBoxDisabledForegroundThemeBrush
Background = TextBoxDisabledBackgroundThemeBrush
Which at run time makes the textbox appear as: white border, transparent background and grey text. Which I was hoping it would make it transparent, white border and white text.
On my Tapped event, I change the textbox to:
Foreground = TextBoxButtonPressedForegroundThemeBrush
Background = TextBoxButtonPressedForegroundThemeBrush
Which is supposed to be black background, white text and white border. Which seems right, but the cursor is back and you cannot see it.
First question is, am I doing this right to change my text color? I want to change the textbox so once it is selected it stays a changed color. I think this is correct. But I am not sure if I should be setting Foreground or maybe a Font Style instead?
Unfortunately you can't change caret color so if you want your TextBox editable - you should keep the background white or otherwise light. Otherwise, controlling the look of your control in its various states is best done using VisualStateManager and that is easiest to manipulate using Blend.
Maybe I am missing something, but is it the case that when you set a pictureboxes background to transparent, all it really does is set it to the same color as the forms background?
What I am trying to do is draw an animation for the benefit of this, a bouncing ball - which I paint on the form, then overlay that with a picture frame. End result should be a bouncing ball in a picture frame, I should mention that the picture frame does not have a straight edge, so it is not possible to arrange 4 picture boxes in a frame. The ball needs to vanish behind the frame to change color and then magically bounce back out.
I have tried:
1.Setting the picture box background to pink and then key out the same pink, this basically cuts away everything, including that which is behind the picture box
2.Setting the picture box to transparent, this just displays the picture box background as the same color as the forms background.
3.I have tried painting the image in a rectangle, this had the same effect as drawing it in a picture box.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, I am wondering if there is any other ways I could try or if someone has made a custom control or library that supports transparency?
Try using a Panel with the background image set. This is because; as you said: the transparent option only takes the backcolour of the parent.
After doing some more in depth research I solved this by drawing both the images to the form using PaintEventArgs and me.paint
Making each image transparent using:
Dim TestImage as Bitmap
TestImage.MakeTransparent(<Transparency Color>)
Thank you to both of you for your replies though.
Hmm... If You want to use Picturebox and get a transparent image,
Try to set picturebox's background as your 'Ball' (probably you need an image editor).
and set picturebox transparent. It worked for me (VS Express 2010) once.
The bar I’m looking for is the separator bar between the editor area and the debug area:
Specifically, I want the buttons to have no borders and I want to have the vertical separator (to the left of ‘No Selection’).
I haven’t done any AppKit stuff in Mountain Lion yet, so before I start implementing my own custom control, I was wondering if I have overlooked a new control (or options for existing controls), or otherwise if somebody has already implemented a custom control that does this?
Its just NSButtons with a custom background image (which is the silver effect) and the "Image" which is the control image.
A quick look inside Xcode.app/Contents/OtherFrameworks/DevToolsInterface.framework/Versions/A/Resources will show you the relevant images.