Introduction
Anyone interested in making a transparent splash screen? Like the one used by Adobe? This one was done by rendering PNG files that use Alpha. Inluded in the download, you will find a full example using Visual Basic .NET 2003. I'm using embedded resources for the image... I have installed and run this project correctly on Windows 98, XP, 2000.
Here are the two most important functions to use inside your splash screen form:
Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub OnPaintBackground(
ByVal pevent As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
Dim gfx As dra.Graphics = pevent.Graphics
gfx.DrawImage(IMA.imaSplashScreen, New dra.Rectangle(0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height))
End Sub
P.S. This is a very easy way to accomplish this, without using API calls and such messy stuff like that. You should be able to make splash screens and About boxes like the one I have used in my project.
