"Christian de Bellefeuille" <cde_bellefeuille@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to change a "Component Opacity"?
>
> I mean, if i want to use a RichTextBox, there's no
> Opacity property. If i set it's BackColor to
> Color.FromArgb(75,255,255,255) for example, it just keep
> telling me that it doesn't support Transparency.
>
> If i create my own user control, it doesn't let me change
> that too.
>
> for example, MSN Messenger 6 embeeded that in their chat
> window. You can set a background image to the main chat
> window, and where the text appear (could be a
> richtextbox) it's just a bit transparent.
>
> Do i have to make to draw the hole object? Is that just
> a trick and Transparency doesn't really exist for
> components?
>
> Thanks
> Chris