Hi John. Embedded forms dont do it either...sigh. Well since I have waited a LOT of time on this, I might jsut have to resort backt o modal dialogs.....grrr....DAMN YOU IE6 !!! :-)
Jeremy On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>wrote: > Now are you after a fully transparent panel or a partially transparent > panel? These are different properties on a form - Fully transparent uses > the TransparentColorValue properties, and a partially transparent form uses > the Alphablend properties. > > D2007 - I tested a form with transparent color set to > TransparentColorValue:=clGreen and TransparentColor:=true. This should work > for D2005? onwards. Put a couple of labels on the panel, set the panel > color to clGreen and hey presto a fully transparent panel complete with > floating labels - that is it does make a hole in the form behind it too. > Note you want to choose a color not used for anything else you want to > see on the form, as it will disappear! > > There are also quite a few controls with transparent properties - labels, > toolbars, TGraphic, TImage, but only TForm and related seem to have > Alphablend. > > If you are after an alphablend partially transparent panel maybe the way > to do it is use an embedded form rather than a panel? I haven't done that > myself but I have seen it done for other purposes. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe >
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