Hi -
Another question that's been tormenting me. On list and ****tal views,
I like to alternate row colors, so one row will be colored, the next
one white, the next one colored, etc. Aesthetically this works best
when fields are transparent. But one of the visual cues I give users
for non-editable fields (such as calculations) is light diagonal
stripes (applied from the pattern box of the paint area on the status
bar). But if you do that, the field goes automatically opaque --
there appears to be no way to apply a pattern and retain transparency.
Is this true? Is there no way to have a transparent field with a
pattern? I've tried just drawing stripes over the field as a
workaround. It's kind of stupid and clunky, but okay -- until you
want to anchor both sides of the field so it grows longer when the
window is dragged wider, at which point the field either becomes half-
shaded when the anchor isn't applied to the stripes, or they distort
out of shape when it is.
Anybody? Anybody? Field patterns with transparency? Seems kinda
basic, but I'm not finding it.
Thanks for any help.
-Jahn
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