Background Clor of a control

[vitormcruz]

Hello,

I want to do a really simple thing, but i am unable to find how to do it here at the foruns os in the SDK help.

I want to define the background color of a control. My aplication will define many controls:


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|..........................|
|..------...------....|
|.|...2..|..|..3....|...|
|.|.......|..|.......|...|
|..------...------ ...|
|...........1.............|
|..........................|
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1, 2 and 3 are controls. The application may load things, such as images, on the controls or not. Those things may be loaded in the entire control or not. The background color of the control must appear on not-loaded parts of the control.

You can see a control like an region with a background that may be filled by elements. Where it is not filled, the background color must appear.

How can i define background colors for controls?

Thanks in advance,
Vitor.

[antonypr]

Are you trying to make a transparent control?

If you are, then try to override CCoeControl:raw() method. Then you need to draw your "element" using CWindowGc::BitBltMasked(). The important is that you need to create a mask for your element. The mask shall be a monochrome bitmap (black and white). The black represents part of the "element" that shall be drawn on the screen. The white one will be "hollow" -> meaning the background of parent's control will be displayed.

Does it answer your question?

Antony

[vitormcruz]

I am trying this also. But first i was trying to define a background color to the control. I used SetBrushColor() and it worked for background.

c1->BakgroundColor.SetRed(0);
c1->BakgroundColor.SetGreen(255);
c1->BakgroundColor.SetBlue(0);
c1->BakgroundColor.SetAlpha(100);

Then i do, inside of c1 constructor, SetBrushColor(BakgroundColor).

However, i dont' know if the transparency of SetAlpha applies to others elements contained on the control. Lets say i load an image in this control. This image will appear with transparency?

Also, there is anyway to define something like an zindex for controls?

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vitormcruz]

I tryed to load an image in a control with SetAlpha(10). Something strange happens. First the image does not appears transparent. Ok, but i realized that the color set for the brush was drawn in front of the image.

So, higher the alpha, lesser of the loaded image can be seen.

That mean i could not find a proper way to put a background color to the control....

[vitormcruz]

I tryed use MCoeControlBackground. It didn't work. But i figured out what i was doing wrong. I put the gc.Clear() after draw the mage. Putting it before draw the image solved the problem :P