Window free shape

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Hi,

A long time ago I found something (VB6 or Realbasic /Realstudio) on how to create a window with a free shape, but I don’t remember where I found that.

I will create a splash / intro screen shaped like the application logo. For example a half round window.
Because of it transparancy you can see your desktop around the halfround window.

I remember there is a way to create a transparant window with a .png backdrop with also some transparant parts in it. Or with a mask image or something.
How exactly I don’t remember.

Hope you can point me in the good direction,

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Christian’s MBS suite has options. In fact, he has a video demoing the technique:

MBS Overlay Tutorial

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Check out the example included with Xojo:

Examples/Platform-Specific/Windows/CustomWindowShape/WindowShape

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[quote=104379:@Paul Lefebvre]Check out the example included with Xojo:

Examples/Platform-Specific/Windows/CustomWindowShape/WindowShape[/quote]
Note that this version only works on Windows.

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Thank both of you.

In my case it is for Windows only so the xojo-example is a simple solution.
And this is the same one I saw before. In that case in RealStuido I guess. Thank you!