You can access the transparent property of a db image in the object inspector. Dan Goldberg
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike epstein sony viao office Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:00 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - any body home on this GOOD EVENING IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A TRANPARENT VARIABLE IMAGE IN A FORM THAT IS PLACED ON TOP OF A DB IMAGE IN THE SAME FORM WHERE THE DB IMAGE CAN BE SEEN AND THE VAIABLE IMAGE WOULD BE A TRANSPARENT LAYER . IF SO HOW WOULD THE VARIABLE IMAGE GET ITS VALUE? THE FOLLOWING DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK SET VAR vdrwing TEXT {THE VARIABLE IMAGE } GETPROPERTY cid_bp2 textvalue 'VDRWING' {THE DB IMAGE THAT WILL GIVE ITS IMAGE'S VALUE TO THE VARIABLE IMAGE} SET VAR vdrwing VARBIT PROPERTY CID_VDRW .VDRWING {ASSIGN THE VARABLE TO THE VARIABLE IMAGE) I AM TRYING TO 'MARK UP' A MECHANICAL DRAWING WITH A TOP LAYER IT SEEMS THAT A DB IMAGE CANNOT BE TRANPARENT A VARIALBE IMAGE CAN BE . I HOPE MY EXPLANATION IS CLEAR. MIKE
