Transparent Form

[Spumbu1977]

Hi All

i am wanting my login form to take shape of the rounded rectangle picture

but all my code seems to make everything attached to the form except text boxes and command buttons transparent even picture boxes, how would i go about doing this

my code is as follows

SetWindowLong Me.hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
SetWindowPos Me.hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 1&, 1&, 1&, 1&, SWP_SHOWME

and i have the following in a module

Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Public Const GWL_EXSTYLE = (-20)
Public Const WS_EX_TRANSPARENT = &H20&
Public Const SWP_FRAMECHANGED = &H20
Public Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Public Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Public Const SWP_SHOWME = SWP_FRAMECHANGED Or SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
Public Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

Dim path As String

any help is always appreciated

thanks in advance
Rob

[mstraf]

see if this help:

http://vb-helper.com/howto_elliptical_form.html

using different Region you can use the shape you want