I am trying to create something very simple using Visual Basic 6:  An
ActiveX control that, when the mouse moves over it, becomes transparent.  I
have come up with a solution, and when I test it from the IDE, it works
great!  If I press the "Play" button in the IDE, an Internet Explorer window
is spawned, I see a grey box, and when I move the mouse over it it becomes
transparent.  However, if I compile the object and run it outside of the
IDE, the grey box appears and when I move the mouse over it, it never
becomes transparent.  I know that the mouse movement is being captured, as I
tested it with a MsgBox... So what's going on???

To do this, by the way, I created a new project, set the BackStyle of the
UserControl to '0 - Transparent', and the following is the only code in the
project:

Private Sub UserControl_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As
Single, Y As Single)
   With UserControl
      .AutoRedraw = True
      .Cls

      .Picture = LoadPicture("")
      .MaskPicture = LoadPicture("")

      Set UserControl.MaskPicture = .Image
      Set UserControl.Picture = .Image

      .AutoRedraw = False
   End With
End Sub

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this!!!

BTW, apologies, for the double-post to
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.programming.activexcontrol