Property: Blending

 

 

 

 

Applies to:
Main Dialog


Description:

Grade of transparency of the Main Dialog during runtime (alpha blending). This feature assigns a grade of transparency to the whole Main Dialog including its objects (buttons and webs and all other objects placed on the dialog will be transparent as well).

 

Important note: this feature does only work on Windows XP and 2000, as they offer the alpha channel for this purpose. On other operating systems, applications will have a normal graphical appearance - the feature will simply be disabled.

Where it works, this feature uses a completely different method of graphics display and handling, which consumes a lot of system resources. System performance may be significantly slowed down, especially when the application is resized. This is caused by the alpha handling of the operating system in combination with the many graphics operations during resizing.

 

Scope:

Global