Transparent RichTextBox

[ryonn]

Hi there,

Is there a guide or method to make the richtextbox to store the chat to be transparent?

Please help
Thanks

[ryonn]

Hi,

I have found a way to make my RTB to be transparent.
The thing is however, the picscreen always refreshes to be on top, hence my textbox is covered by picscreen.
How can I handle this?

Please help

[Robin]

You can't.

Transparent controls can't be set above the DirectDraw area. The only way to have a chat box within the gamescreen itself is to program it to use DirectDraw.

[ryonn]

Hi Robin,

Thank you for replying this.
Is there any guide to make achatbox in a DD?
Thanks

[Robin]

Store all the lines of text in a circular array, so you don't get a stupid amount of text in memory.

Have a simple rendering system which is based off a small integer value which can be control by a programmed "scroll bar".

```
For i = SCROLLBARVALUE to SCROLLBARVALUE + [max lines in chat]
    DrawText(textArray(i), x, y)
next
```
It's fairly simple, you just need to know how to edit the incoming message packets and have them stored in an array, instead of in an RTB.

[ryonn]

hi Robin,

Thanks for the reply.
Is it a good idea to use Tile to be the textbox transparent background?

[ryonn]

I am trying to add picture/object to the picscreen.hwnd or clipper, but I do not know how. Please help :(