Friday, August 17, 2007

Making any Window Transparent on XP

Intro
This little piece of code written in VB6 allows you to make any window transparent.
Make Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Explorer, basically any window, transparent on Windows XP.

*Transparent Opera

Download
+Zipped binary for Windows XP from here Transp.ZIP [5 KB]
+Source code from planet-source-code

Usage


* Run the Program

* Place the mouse over the title bar of the window which you want to make transparent.

* Now leaving the mouse in the title bar, press the Ctrl button (Normally on the lower right side of the keyboard), now you can see the window name shown in the software.

* Now press the "Set Transparent" Button

* Adjust the Transparency Slider to the required transparency. (Dont set below 100 you will loose sight of the window)

* Press the "Set Opaque" Button to make the window opaque again

* To do for another window repeat the same steps.

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