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Why image with transparent background not visible in Silverlight?

I have created an image to use as a ruler. It has black lines and text on a transparent background and is in PNG format. After adding it to my XAML I was surprised to find that the image was not visible, and even more surprised to find it was visible in Blend when I loaded the XAML file there. What might cause an image to be invisible w...

Changing the tablecell

Was wondering how you can make the cell transparent without affecting its children (subviews)? I tried just setting the alpha property but obviously that affects the other views that I have added to the cell. Here are the following methods I've tried so far: cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:1 green:1 blue:1 alpha...

Iframe transparent background

My app has a modal dialog with an iframe inside it. I've written my jQuery code such that when the dialog opens, it sets the appropriate 'src' attribute of the iframe so the content loads up. However, during the delay between the dialog opening and the content loading, the iframe appears conspicuously as a white box. I'd prefer the ifr...

[C#] Transparent LinkLabel over TabControl

Hello, I would like to put a LinkLabel with a transparent background over a TabControl. The tab control has NO tabpage. As it's not possible to add controls other than TabPages to a TabControl, what I do it add the LinkLabel to the control that contains the TabCOntrol, and then use BringToFront on the LinkLabel. This displays it over...

[VB.Net] Trasparent Enabled textbox

I would like to create a textbox that accepts an ARGB value (Not a rgb value, an Argb value) a.k.a allows semi-transparent background colors. I have this in the designer code so far: <Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _ Partial Class TransparentTextbox Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox Publ...

How would I go about acquiring the transparent overlay for the iPhone's home screen icons?

I'd like to have the home screen style for a section of my app, and the icon style will most likely be the 'make it or break it' aspect. Right now, I've got it looking pretty decent. I just have a black background with rounded buttons and the basic system text under them as labels. With a few modifications to this psd kit I've been ab...

iPhone Objective C: UIImage - Region of Interest

Is there any way to get the min rectangle area which contains all the non-transparent part of an UIImage? Reading pixel by pixel to check where alpha == 0 ...isn't a good way I believe. Any better way? Many thanks for reading ...

windowless .wmv in firefox

Hi Is there any way to make windowless .wmv videos on firefox. Does windows media player plugin support windowlessVideo mode in firefox and if it does please tell me which version should i use ...

Draw polygon to clip texture to be transparent where polygon is openGL(EL)

I have two layers being drawn. A static background texture and a texture(png) with transparent parts. I can correctly see the background with no problems. What I would like to do is modify the top layer by drawing a polygon(rectangle) with size that will change at run time to make that portion of the top layer transparent so you just see...

TabControl transparent background

I'd like to know if there's some way to render the background of a TabControl transparent (the TabControl, not the TabPages), instead of taking the parent form background color. I've some forms with custom painting where I draw a gradient as the background but this gradient doesn't paint behind the tabcontrols. I tried setting TabControl...

Make a 3D model transparent

How can I make a specific 3d model transparent? Is it as simple as changing the opacity of the model's material? I tried the following: SolidColorBrush br = (SolidColorBrush)matDif.Brush; //matDif = DiffuseMaterial br.Opacity = 0.3; When it tries setting the opacity it says that it is in a read-only state and cannot be changed? ...

How to make separator (Single Line) transparent in Tableview?

I have used table view in my application, and within that I have used the single line separator given by tableview. How can I make a transparent separator in a tableview? If anybody has any ideas/code snippets/useful links, I would greatly appreciate it. ...

How to get the current transparent color?

Hello How can I determine what is the transparent color on a form? (The color that a control, for example, will be painted with, if BackColor property will be set to Color.Transparent. The reason I need this is that I need to fill a background of a custom created control, and for many other reasons, I can't just use Color.Transparent. ...

Integrating an existing Java Swing component into a QT widget

We have two massive applications,lets name them "A_app" and "B_app". Both A_app and B_app come with rich editors. A_app's editor is written using Java-Swing and B_app's editor is written using QT. Now we need to be able to integrate A_app's editor in B_app's editor, which would effectively mean that we need to integrate an existing Swi...

CSS Menu Under Flash Slideshow

I've tried using wmode transparent codes on my SWF slideshow but the menus still seem to appear behind the Flash in IE8 and Firefox 3.5... In IE7 it works although the looks of the menus aren't as good. Here's the Flash code: AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,...

Android: ListView Flicker effect. Any hints on how to get rid of this?

For some reason, whenever I scroll through my list of items, the background inside my listview disappears and reappears giving rise to a "flicker" effect which I don't really want. I've tried the suggestion at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377336/android-make-listview-transparent but it doesn't work for some reason. Any suggestion...

How can I generate images of circles, of varying sizes?

For the task I'm trying to accomplish, I need to generate many images, all consisting of a black circle border on a transparent background, but each a different size (going up in size from 3x3 to, say, 20x20). Preferably they would be GIFs or PNGs, as these support transparency. I started building a simple C# Console project for this, ...

css Gif white background stroke?

Does anyone know how to fix the white background stroke in the css that you see when a transparent gif is overlayed on a colour? ...

C# - Make form semi-transparent while moving

Is there any way to make the form semi-transparent while it is being moved and then become opaque when it's not being moved anymore? I have tried the Form_Move event with no luck. I'm stuck, any help? ...

How to clear graphics on a transparent control in windows forms

So, I am pretty unfamiliar with windows forms development. I'm trying to create a "hey I'm busy doing stuff" component that just spins a shape around. I want this control to be transient and draw on top of any other controls. The class inherits directly from Control. So I have this in the constructor: SetStyle(ControlStyles.Opaque, tr...