Transparent form as child to another form

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I want to create a Transparent form over another form. The intention is to have controls in this Transparent form, so that these controls looks as if they are on the Main form.

Now I want to set my Main form as Parent to this Transparent form, so that resize,minimize etc can be handled.

This works fine except in Windows 7 OS.

I have already posted a question related to this [Issue in Win 7][^]

Now I am in doubt if the method followed, to achieve this behaviour is correct or not !

Please let me know, if the are any other possible ways to bind a Transparent form to another form.

Posted 23-Sep-15 17:42pm

Lakamraju Raghuram

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Kenneth Haugland 24-Sep-15 0:32am

This is WinForms so I don't really know the answer, but It sounds to me as you are doing something unnecessary difficult here?

Lakamraju Raghuram 24-Sep-15 1:12am

Yeah, sounds to me the same. So only I have posted to know the procedure to have a transparent from over another Parent form

Ralf Meier 24-Sep-15 4:36am

If you want to have a "Transparent Form" you could do this with the Opacity-Property.
Unfortunately this Property also sets the Opacity to every Control on this Form. So you have to customize your Form. Is it that what you want to do ?
In this case I could give you Information.
But you should know, that every control, which is "under" the transparent Form is not usable ...

Lakamraju Raghuram 25-Sep-15 0:00am

Thanks Ralf for your reply.
I have no trouble in creating Transparent form. I am using TransparentKey and BackColor properties. I am facing problem while setting another form as Parent to this Transparent form.
I want this parent-child relationship, so that resize,minimize could be handled easily.

Maciej Los 27-Sep-15 17:48pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryokov[^] had mentioned several times on this forum: forget about child-parent relationship, because it's NOT really operational.
Please, see His answers[^] to similar questions.

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