Transparent images on a Window

Is there a way to:

SetPanelPixmap and not see black/white where transparency should be

-or-

Find the system color for the windows/panels/buttons/etc. (On Windows it is usually a shade of grey)

I would like to to be able to create non-square transparent buttons/icons and stick them to panels

I'm sure I've posted a bug report in the past regarding this, but it has probably got lost when everything went into the bug bin a while back.

There is a file called "seeThru" from Chris Camacho that you might be interested in. Thread is here
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=62753#700994
The website seems to have disappeared, so I have uploaded the file to my site at
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-BlitzStuff

Edit:Files are on different server now.

I have seen the seethru file before but i choose to use a code supplied by Yan. I dont want to make the window transparent, I just want create a non-square panel or at least what looks like a non-square panel.

Is that a little more clearly explained?

Seethru will do that. Just pass the panel as a parameter instead of a window.

Framework BRL.Pixmap
Import BRL.PNGLoader
Import BRL.Win32MaxGUI

Import "see-thru.bmx"

Local mask:TPixmap=LoadPixmap("image1.png")
Local Button1:TPixmap = LoadPixmap("button1.png")
Local Button2:TPixmap = LoadPixmap("Button2.png")

Local window:Tgadget=CreateWindow("a hole",0,0,640,480)

Local Panel:TGadget=CreatePanel(100,100,128,128,Window,PANEL_ACTIVE)
SetPanelColor(Panel,255,255,255)
SetPanelPixmap(Panel,Button1)
MakeSeeThru(Panel,mask)
ActivateGadget Panel
While WaitEvent()
	Select EventID()
		Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
			End
		Case EVENT_MOUSEDOWN
			SetPanelPixmap(Panel,Button2)
		Case EVENT_MOUSEUP
			SetPanelPixmap(Panel,Button1)
	EndSelect
Wend

media

Oh, I didn't think of it like that. I tried it with Yan's code at http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=62753. And it works beautifully even with mouse enter/leave events or other gadgets contained in it.

Thanks for the help.