Hi John.<br>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 !!! :-)<br><br>Jeremy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM, John Bird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">D2007 - I tested a form with
transparent color set to TransparentColorValue:=clGreen and
TransparentColor:=true. This should work for D2005? onwards.
</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">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!</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">There are also quite a few controls
with transparent properties - labels, toolbars, TGraphic, TImage, but only TForm
and related seem to have Alphablend.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div>John</div></font></div>
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