Anyone know a way to enable transparency with Systray2.dll? I've got it hooked into an LSBox and the FF00FF areas are showing as black instead of transparent.

Can't use VTray as the icons don't update or accept clicks when vtray is hooked to an lsbox.

Does your lsbox background have a unique pattern or something? Otherwise try using the same image (cropped to suit) for systray2, too.

The lsbox background is entirely transparent, it's just an anchor.

Also the tray needs to auto-size, within the lsbox.

When I used lsbox, I had the same problem with systray2 transparency.
Since I'm using skinbox.dll to hook modules, transparency works as expect (at least with systray2).

The only problem is that skinbox currently doesn't work on 0.24.7; but it will soon :D

there's no support for real transparency in lsbox, it does the same when you use layercuts in lsbox, it creates a black bg for the module.

Ok here's an update to the situation:

Even when it's not hooked the FF00FF areas are still displayed as black instead of transparent. Does systray2 really not support magic pink?

mmm, i think that when it's not hooked, the shadows in xp display pink.

weird.
well i'm using 2k and it's not the shadow, it's a triangular section of magic pink in a .bmp...

Ok so I've gotten around the problem by using systray-lsbox.dll and an LsBox as an anchor for the systray. The image of the systray is the LsBox image, and the systray's background is just a solid color that matches the color of the area in the box image where the systray sits. (Hope that made sense to everyone)

Now here's the complicated bit. To enable auto-sizing, I employed the following systray.rc:



...also the script vars TrayWidth and TrayPos, pre-defined either in a startup script or in a vars.rc file, and the following script:



Hope this helps anyone else trying to overcome this little problem :)