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Maxim V. Pavlov
Maxim V. Pavlov

Reputation: 10509

Semi-transparent splash screen bevel

A Zune splash screen:

zune splash screen

has a square, semi-transparent border around splash screen image.

How can one get such semi-transparent border on .net app's splash screen?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 922

Answers (2)

Rafael
Rafael

Reputation: 356

Look at Transparency Properties on .NET forms

On your image border put this square in a specific color, then use the Transparency property to apply a MaskColor

Once i found a code exemple taht takes a PNG image and apply the transparency component on the form... This code project tutorial can help:

Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 1

Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 2

Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 3

Upvotes: 0

Louis Kottmann
Louis Kottmann

Reputation: 16628

Here are the steps for a partly transparent WPF splashscreen:

1) Create a PNG with the desired semi-transparent parts
2) In your SplashScreen.xaml (or whatever the name of it), do this:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" WindowStyle="None" AllowsTransparency="True">
    <Grid>
        <Image Source="MyPngImagePath" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

If you want to use a regular image with no transparency and put a semi-transparent border around it, simply put the Image in the XAML above into a <Border /> with BorderBrush set to a semi-transparent color (i.e: a color like #AABBBBBB where AA defines transparency)

Upvotes: 1

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