Chipp Walters wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> While the docs claim that the blend ink effect is available on >> Windows, in practice I can only use it with images, but not with >> graphic objects. >> >> Am I missing something? If there's some trick to getting blend to >> work as documented on Windows I'd be forever grateful... > > Check out the srcOr ink effect. Depending on the grayscale of the > graphic will create the effective transparency, with a graphic of pure > black being 100% transparent, and white being pure opaque. > > I don't think there's an equivalent of just 'blend'
Thanks Chipp. The srcOr ink is good in many cases, but in this one the benefit of blend is that it shows lots of different gradations where parts of the polygon overlap repeatedly. In the UI I'm working on this communicates useful information to the user (relates to data density).
I've submitted a request to extend support of the blend ink for graphics on Windows:
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