Transparent Panel

Perkins_David · October 13, 2020, 10:02am

I'm currently going through the process of updating our GUI with styler aware components. A good thing about using TPanel, (with no borders and a flat sold colour) is that it makes it easy to arrange different sections on a form. This is more difficult to do with TAdvPanels due to the different fades etc. Is it possible to have a Transparent property on a TAdvPanel, or, what would you recommend to use for grouping components with no visible border?

Thanks

Stanislav_Hruska · October 13, 2020, 12:30pm

You can use the same values for ColorFrom and ColorTo

Perkins_David · October 13, 2020, 1:12pm

Where is ColorFrom?

brunofierens · October 13, 2020, 2:56pm

Sorry, there is no Transparent property on TAdvPanel.
You can give it the same color as the form by setting TAdvPanel.Color and TAdvPanel.ColorTo to the form color.

Perkins_David · October 13, 2020, 5:03pm

That won't work too well if it's already on a TAdvPanel with a gradient.

I've since found that a TAdvGroupBox with no caption/borders and set to Transparent does the job fine.

Thanks.

Stanislav_Hruska · October 13, 2020, 5:28pm

Um, either I have all AdvPanels with a gradient or none.
I memorized these names. I have made a mistake.