transparent background for drawings in vb?

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Hi anybody have a idea how to create a drawing in vb picturebox?
The images must save as png and background must be transparent.

Kind regards
H

Posted 26-Jan-11 3:03am

heinrich4J

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-01-26T03:10:00

Solution 1

Typically this is done using the Bitmap.MakeTransparent method.

Example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8517ckds.aspx[^]

[Update]
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Relevant thread on S.O.:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388677/can-you-make-an-alpha-transparent-png-with-c[^]

Posted 26-Jan-11 3:10am

Nish Nishant

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Sandeep Mewara 26-Jan-11 10:41am

Comment from OP:
still not transparent, should it not be something like 32bit png?

Nish Nishant 26-Jan-11 10:48am

To OP: show your code that's not working.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jan-11 11:04am

My 5. Transparency is often misunderstood. I'm afraid more discussion will follow this question.
--SA

Nish Nishant 26-Jan-11 11:07am

Thanks. And yeah, based on the OP's response it doesn't seem as if he's got it right yet.

heinrich4J 27-Jan-11 9:05am

nope, have not come right yet..!
Do any of you know where i can buy vb code (software code)? cant keep struggling with this.
I need a solution very soon....