Codejock Developer Community : Skinning a Frame control http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:51:34 +0000 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:32:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12914 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Skinning a Frame control : So you really cannot completely...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12914&PID=43645&title=skinning-a-frame-control#43645 Author: rdmeyers
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Posted: 13 December 2008 at 10:32am

So you really cannot completely skin a native VB6 program using common controls?  You are so close to perfection, why stop now?  
]]> Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:32:12 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12914&PID=43645&title=skinning-a-frame-control#43645 <![CDATA[Skinning a Frame control : Hi, Use our GroupBox control...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12914&PID=43639&title=skinning-a-frame-control#43639 Author: Oleg
Subject: 12914
Posted: 13 December 2008 at 8:12am

Hi,

Use our GroupBox control from Suite package and set its Transparent propety to True.

]]> Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:12:53 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12914&PID=43639&title=skinning-a-frame-control#43639 <![CDATA[Skinning a Frame control : How do you get a Frame control...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12914&PID=43635&title=skinning-a-frame-control#43635 Author: rdmeyers
Subject: 12914
Posted: 12 December 2008 at 7:39pm

How do you get a Frame control (or PictureBox control for that matter) to skin properly on a TabStrip or TabControl?  They do not appear to behave properly in regards to transparency.  The SkinMDISample demonstrates this problem quite well.  I'll insert a picture here:
 
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