[DUG] AlphaBlend Panel?

[John Bird]

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
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