BACKCOLORTRANSPARENT Property

 

Sets the Window's background transparency colour

 

 

Description:

 

The BACKCOLORTRANSPARENT Property sets the Window's background transparency colour according to a three element array defining an RGB colour

 

Syntax:

 

    THISWINDOW | <FormName>.BACKCOLORTRANSPARENT := aRGBValue

 

Valid For Use With:

 

This Property is assumed to be available for use with all Window types

 

Notes:

  1. This property is only available after Window definition

  2. Definition's for a range of colours can be found in the file i_color.ch in the \INCLUDE folder. For example, RED represents the RGB array { 255, 0, 0 }

  3. During testing, it was not possible to make any visible change to the Window's background colour using this Property. Such testing was conducted on a fully updated standard Windows 10 PC

  4. No help documentation was published with the original or subsequent releases of HMG

Properties:

 

The following Property is available after the Window has been defined

 

aRGBValue Array W Sets the Window transparency color. This is expressed as an array containing three numeric elements representing the red, green and blue (RGB) values

 

D - Properties of this type can be used when defining a Window

R - Properties of this type can only be accessed (read) after the Window has been defined

W - Properties of this type can be changed (write) after the Window has been defined

 

See GETPROPERTY and SETPROPERTY functions for further infomation on accessing or changing properties or use semi-OOP syntax