Intro image that fades in/out

[webcrtor]

My question is what's the best way to get this result? I would like to show an image in the center of the screen that fades in and out and then minimize my program(It's a system tray application)

I already got help for minimizing and creating a system tray menu, only problem now is to show the intro image, any help is welcome!

I tried to do it with the winapi plugin but it doesn't work well because you need to use the standard window style or it won't work(so there is a window around the image) + it just fades a black window and then shows the image.

[Imagine Programming]

You could use the set window transparancy function in the free WindowEX plugin, WindowEX will add new functions to your action wizard :)
WindowEX (http://indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22336&highlight=windowex) <-= a lot of info and there is a link at one of the pages :)

Fade in would be:

Trans = 255;
Count = 0;
while Count < Trans do
Count=Count+1;
WindowEx.SetWindowTrans(Application.GetWndHandle() , Count);
end

etc...

[webcrtor]

hmm the fadeout works, but not the fadein, I still get a black screen fading and then the image shows, even if the image is the background picture.

The code, onshow:

Trans = 255;
Count = 0;
while Count < Trans do
Count=Count+0.05;
WinApi.SetWindowTrans(Application.GetWndHandle(), Count);
end
Application.Sleep(2000)
Trans = 0;
Count = 255;
while Count > Trans do
Count=Count-0.05;
WinApi.SetWindowTrans(Application.GetWndHandle(), Count);
end
Application.Sleep(1000)
Window.Hide(Application.GetWndHandle());

[webcrtor]

Ok I've found a workaround for the fade-in problem, just put in the page preload script:

WinApi.SetWindowTrans(Application.GetWndHandle(), 0);

then in the onshow:

Application.Sleep(100)
Trans = 255;
Count = 0;
while Count < Trans do
Count=Count+0.08;
WinApi.SetWindowTrans(Application.GetWndHandle(), Count);
end

and it will fade in very nice :)

[RizlaUK]

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21451&highlight=transition+engine