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Andy,



You should be able to do this using a .BMP panel background and using a specific color for the cut-out, then specifying that color as transparent in the panel properties.



Rick

I was just looking at the CreateWindowEx Function and noticed that there's a dwExStyle called WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, which it appears would allow you to in essence create a transparent window. Given this, what I suggested in the previous post with respect to how to handle a PNG file as the background of...

Scott, Thanks for your response. I guess I was hoping that there would be a way for the implementation to use the PNG image and only carve out portions of the window where the PNG is 100% transparent. Then for the areas where it's semi-transparent, it could show through the contents of the underlyin...

Scott,



Any chance the source might be available for the TV Listing Sample plugin? I need some modified capabilities beyond the stock one and not having to write one from scratch would save a ton of time.



Thanks,



Rick

I'm trying to use a PNG image with semi-transparent sections as the background for a popup panel in the software remote. It does not appear to work. It automatically places a black background behind the image. Alternatively, I tried using a BMP file with regional transparency, ALL transparent. Then ...

Scott, Thanks for your reply. Since posting, I experimented some more, found a bug in my code and was able to get standard properties to do what I wanted. I had been under the impression that I needed dynamic properties to do dynamic device side updates to push content to the server and software rem...

Scott, It's not quite clear to me how to implement dynamic properties. I have an asynchronous activity that I'm performing in my DeviceRun loop, activated by a timeout from the "WaitForMultipleObjects" call. I know have new values I want to place in the dynamic properties. I've tried: pVal...

Thanks, that did the trick.

In fact, I can't get any images either. Buttons, labels, indicators work, but images and background don't. Thoughts?

Not sure why, but the theme background does not show up on my PPC. I'm using the stock Meedio Blue\HBB_BackgroundPPC.bmp My PPC is a Dell Axim X50v. It has a 640x480 screen, however all the buttons and such seem to be scaled to proportionally be placed in the right spots with the right size. It's ju...

I had attempted multiple times by starting the app and each time it would try to connect, after about 5 minutes of trying, I would stop it by clicking cancel, which would of course bring up my previous theme. I didn't have a configure button on that, so I was stuck in this loop. Thanks to your respo...

Hopefully there's a simple answer for this one. I'm having difficulty figuring out how to re-configure the setup for my PPC software remote. I recently changed the IP address for my HouseBot server system and now the PPC remote is obviously unable to connect. I need to change the setup configuration...