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'Forms - How to show your form in different way
Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Function CreateRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, _
    ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateRoundRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, _
    ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long, ByVal X3 As Long, ByVal Y3 As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CreateEllipticRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal Y1 As Long, _
    ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CombineRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDestRgn As Long, ByVal hSrcRgn1 As Long, _
    ByVal hSrcRgn2 As Long, ByVal nCombineMode As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal hRgn As Long, _
    ByVal bRedraw As Boolean) As Long
 
Private Sub Form_Paint()
    Dim HnHn(3) As Long
    HnHn(0) = CreateRoundRectRgn(48, 48, 300, 200, 20, 20)
    HnHn(1) = CreateEllipticRgn(16, 4, 90, 80)
    HnHn(2) = CreateRoundRectRgn(48, 200, 300, 220, 20, 20)
    HnHn(3) = CreateRectRgn(245, 4, 300, 29)
 
    CombineRgn HnHn(0), HnHn(0), HnHn(1), 2
    CombineRgn HnHn(2), HnHn(2), HnHn(0), 2
    CombineRgn HnHn(3), HnHn(3), HnHn(2), 2
    SetWindowRgn Me.hWnd, HnHn(3), True
End Sub