transparent graphic with border visible, windows

[Rodney Tamblyn]

Hi Howard,

I'm drawing irregular shaped objects, polygons, lines with arrows 
etc... as part of an annotation tool.

~ Rodney

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 03:20 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

>
> On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how to make a transparent graphic with visible 
>> border on Windows (It's easy on Mac).  The graphic needs to be 
>> "opaque" so it will capture mouse clicks, but obviously I want it to 
>> show what's underneath, so the ink will in fact make it transparent 
>> apart from the border.
>
> Any reason why it *has* to be a graphic. Why not just place a button 
> over the area, set the opaque and showname to false, and set the 
> border to whatever thickness you want.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
> Regards,
>
> Howard Bornstein
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