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Booooze · Oct 20th, 2007, 11:49 PM

VB6 wasn't much good with transparency's. You could try making it with DirectX, but then the user has to have DX runtimes installed, which is a downside for a simple applications 'eye candy'. Your best bet would be VB.NET anyways, or at least some kind of .NET language. If it's a Microsoft language, it needs runtime files anyways. VB6 will need the VB6 runtimes to be installed. .NET Languages will need the .NET framework. If you plan on releasing this for Windows XP and Vista, you might as well use a .NET language because Vista comes with .NET installed anyways, and I don't know anyone who has XP and doesn't have .NET framework 1.1 (for the least). Other than using the built in transparency's, The only other thing I can thing of is 'Manifest' Files. I don't really know how they work, you'll have to Google them. If I remember correctly, they should let you change the whole style of your form. It may very well help with the transparency issue as well. Perhaps another member will be able to enlighten you on the topic. But when it comes to language choice, I wouldn't bother with VB6 unless your targeting Windows 98 users.

Oct 20th, 2007, 11:49 PM	#2
Booooze Expert Programmer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Igloo Posts: 710 Rep Power: 3	Re: Can this be done in VB6? VB6 wasn't much good with transparency's. You could try making it with DirectX, but then the user has to have DX runtimes installed, which is a downside for a simple applications 'eye candy'. Your best bet would be VB.NET anyways, or at least some kind of .NET language. If it's a Microsoft language, it needs runtime files anyways. VB6 will need the VB6 runtimes to be installed. .NET Languages will need the .NET framework. If you plan on releasing this for Windows XP and Vista, you might as well use a .NET language because Vista comes with .NET installed anyways, and I don't know anyone who has XP and doesn't have .NET framework 1.1 (for the least). Other than using the built in transparency's, The only other thing I can thing of is 'Manifest' Files. I don't really know how they work, you'll have to Google them. If I remember correctly, they should let you change the whole style of your form. It may very well help with the transparency issue as well. Perhaps another member will be able to enlighten you on the topic. But when it comes to language choice, I wouldn't bother with VB6 unless your targeting Windows 98 users.