[aroberts]

I had emailed Serge this question last week, but he is probably very busy at the moment, preparing another release. Perhaps someone else knows the answer and would be kind enough to provide it:

I have been trying to use a TsPanel as a semi-transparent panel according to the method described in the AC Forum:

In the SkinManager CommonSections:

[EMPTYITEM]
PaintingTransparency = 100
HotPaintingTransparency = 100

Then selecting EMPTYITEM as the SkinSection.

It doesn't work as described. I have tried various values for the parms, but with no success. This solution was posted quite a while ago, so is there a newer, better way of doing that with the latest version?

Thanks for any help.

[Support]

Hello
You must use TRANSPARENCY and HOTTRANSPARENCY (all reserved words may be found in sSkinProps.pas)
Also I must say that empty item exists already in all skins. 'CHECKBOX' section will be empty and transparent always and you can use this section.

[Alfatester]

QUOTE (Support @ Nov 11 2009, 07:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hello
You must use TRANSPARENCY and HOTTRANSPARENCY (all reserved words may be found in sSkinProps.pas)
Also I must say that empty item exists already in all skins. 'CHECKBOX' section will be empty and transparent always and you can use this section.

Tried following:
SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('[EMPTYITEM]');
SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('TRANSPARENCY = 50');
SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('HOTTRANSPARENCY = 50');
sPanel1.SkinData.SkinSection := 'EMPTYITEM';

Nothing helped.

Do you have sample of working code?

[Alfatester]

Solved:

Code works in case of lines without spaces:

SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('[EMPTYITEM]');
SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('TRANSPARENCY=50');
SkinManager.CommonSections.Add('HOTTRANSPARENCY=50');
sPanel1.SkinData.SkinSection := 'EMPTYITEM';

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