Is There A Way To Create A "hole" In Your Gui Window?

[b8bboi]

As the topic title said, is there a way to create a square "hole" in the GUI window so that everything behind the window will show through, even mouse clicks?

Right now, my temporary solution is to create a hidden parent window and a 4 child windows positioned around the "hole." Of course, that's not elegant at all.

Any help is appreiciated.

[Valuater]

just create the 4 windows and "dock" the position/location

that way there would be no need for the hole

8)

[b8bboi]

just create the 4 windows and "dock" the position/location

that way there would be no need for the hole

8)

Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I said.

I'm looking for a more elegant solution. Say, if you want to create a background image for your window, you won't have to chop it up, too.

[GaryFrost]

look here for ideas http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...opic=12827&st=0

also might want to search for CreatePolygonRgn

[GaryFrost]

thought i had done this a while back

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...indpost&p=85624

Edited May 8, 2006 by gafrost

[b8bboi]

thought i had done this a while back

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...indpost&p=85624

That's awesome. I'll play around with your code to see if I can cut a rectangle, not a circle like in the example.

Thanks.

Edit: figured it out.

Thanks again.

Edited May 8, 2006 by b8bboi