Anyone ever tried to get additional areas of glass on an mdi form?

hi USE THE SAME API AND ADD TWO (ONE ON TOP AND ONE ON LEFT FOR NAVIGATION OR IF YOU JUST NEED ON TOP THEN ONLY ONE WILL WORK) PANELS TO MDIcONTAINER AND GIVE IT BACK COLOR AS bLACK AND IT WILL BE PAINTED AS GLASS BUT IN THE MDI APP YOU WILL LOOS GLASS ON ALL THE CHILD FORMS THATS WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW

Start out with a UserControl, and dub it "WorkList". Set "AutoScroll" to true. This will cause scrollbars to appear in the master-control when there's items that don't fit in the client-area. Create a new UserControl called "WorkItem" that holds: - a label - a progressBar A minimum & maximum-height of, e.g. 200. I assume that you'll be using backgroundWorkers to do the work, and that you're going to keep the progress of each thread in the "downloadlist". Whenever you create a new backgroundworker, you also create a new "WorkItem" usercontrol, and pass it as a parameter to the new thread. Set the Dock property to "Top", and it will snap in place in the list. In the .DoWork of the backgroundworker, call the backgroundWorker1.ReportProgress( ... ) method. This will raise the backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged event, in which you update the progressBar of the associated "WorkItem"-usercontrol. If the Control is @100%, dispose :) I are Draenei, apparently, level 72 :doh:

Hmmm. I increased the buffer size from 1024 to 4096 and everything seems to work perfectly now.

I've tried that. My problem is making the form's background disappear. I cannot get rid of the grey square (default form background color). So to do that I override the paintbackground method but that then draws black wherever the transparency is meant to be. Whether double buffered or not. It definitely draws black in the transparency when changing Opacity :/