Transparent Image in a Transparent ActiveX Control

DanTheMan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:26:26 GMT

Hi folks. This is my first post here, and since I'm new to vb, I'm sure I'll be checking back here a good bit in the future.

I need to create some activex controls with transparent backgrounds. These controls contain non-sqare transparent gifs. The issue is that eventhough transparency is enabled in the project, the gifs still have a gray square around them when I insert the OLE object into my externa application.

So what I've tried is:

Create a new "ActiveX Control" project
Set the "BackStyle" property to 0-Transparent
Double click "Image" on the toolbar
Set the "Picture" property to load my gif image (I can tell this is loading with proper transparency as I can see other elemnts behind it)

So I do all of this and there is a gray box around the extents of my image rather than it being transparent.

I have found an .ocx called transimg that seems to work, but since it isn't open source, I don't know how they did it.

Any clues?

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