Skinning a form

Hi all...

I am making a program and I need to support skins like the ones in WinAmp. Sofar, I have projected the bmps onto a form, using hWnd, but now I need to make the form transperent in certain areas and perform hittests to see if the user actually clicked on my form. I'm using visual basic, as the project did not need the power of C, but if there is on other option then I will have to move, even thought I have already written many lines of vb code.

Please help. Links appreciated.

Email me as I don't read this board very often.

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I found a fantastic OCX, that do what you search for,
it's name is ActiveSkin 3.0, you can search for on WWW.DownLoad.COm
But that version is a shareware, notice that it is not a freeware, So
You must purchase the control to continue it's using.