Display button (transparent) on VideoSourcePlayer

[dall]

I want to display a button with transparent background (currently in a PictureBox) on the VideoSourcePlayer control like so:

Screenshot of button on VideoSourcePlayer

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I can't get the button to be shown as transparent. I set up the PictureBoxes BackgroundColor to Color.Transparent and added the box to the player's list of controls. Trying to set the player's back color to transparent failed with an exception (not supported). If the player was another PictureBox it would have worked.

Any more ideas on what to try?
Thanks!

[andrew.kirillov]

Just make a custom drawing control and do whatever you would like (writing your code for drawing).

Any AForge.NET specific question ?

[dall]

Hi,
thanks, did some more googling about that, tried it and it worked. Thought it was a VideoSourcePlayer related problem. I find the way WinForms is handling transparency very confusing.

I used this approach:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forum ... m=winforms

My class:

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public class TransparentPictureBox : Control
{
    private Timer refresher;
    private Image _image = null;
    private Image resizedImage = null;


    public TransparentPictureBox()
    {
        this.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;

        refresher = new Timer();
        refresher.Tick += new EventHandler(this.TimerOnTick);
        refresher.Interval = 50;
        refresher.Start();
    }


    protected override CreateParams CreateParams
    {
        get
        {
            CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
            cp.ExStyle |= 0x20;
            return cp;
        }
    }


    protected override void OnResize(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnResize(e);

        if (_image != null)
            SetResizedImage();
    }


    private void SetResizedImage()
    {
        if (this._image != null)
        {
            if (resizedImage != null)
                resizedImage.Dispose();
            int newHeight = Helper.CalculateHeightForTargetWidth(_image.Size, this.Width);
            resizedImage = new Bitmap(_image, this.Width, newHeight);
        }
    }


    protected override void OnMove(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.RecreateHandle();
    }


    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        if (resizedImage != null)
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(resizedImage, new Point(0, 0));
    }

    protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
    }


    private void TimerOnTick(object source, EventArgs e)
    {
        base.RecreateHandle();
        refresher.Stop();
    }


    public Image Image
    {
        get
        {
            return _image;
        }
        set
        {
            _image = value;
            base.RecreateHandle();
        }
    }
}