Is there a way to either specify the background color on tab or page panels? Either the color or specify transparency.
Mac OS X Mavericks.
There is a xippet to set the background of a text area transparent. Maybe this could be a starting point https://www.boxedbyte.com/xippet_view.php?xippet_id=190
[quote=116165:@william plunkett]Is there a way to either specify the background color on tab or page panels? Either the color or specify transparency.
Mac OS X Mavericks.[/quote]
Tab panels are transparent, although imposing a shade. I found no way to make them opaque. But you can emulate a non transparent color tab panel by coupling a rounded corner rectangle with a Segmented Control. Use the technique below to create a reusable one.
For the page panel, I do not know how to make it transparent and would instead use a series of Container Controls to have transparent pages, but here is how to proceed to make the background colored :
- Drag a Container Control to the left of IDE (NOT on a window)
- Drag a Page Panel onto that Container Control. Make it the same size, and lock all sides of the control
- On each page of the PagePanel, place a rectangle of the same size which color you select in the IDE. Make all sides of the rectangle locked
- Drag the ContainerControl over the window, make it the size you want.
To address the PagePanel.value, use
ContainerControlNameOnTheWindow.PagePanel1.ValueI don’t know how to color them either, but because they are transparent you can put them inside a Canvas which first draws what you want.
For a PagePanel this is easy because there is no border decoration, for TabPanel you’ll have to try and match the top inset and rounding, which might change by OS version, etc…
//Canvas' Paint with a TabPanel set just inside
Sub Paint(g As Graphics, areas() As REALbasic.Rect)
g.ForeColor = &cCCFFCC
g.FillRoundRect 0, 18, g.Width, g.Height-18, 12, 12
End Sub
What a mission - but it works - thanks Michel.
You’re welcome, Peter 