Usng an image to "disable" a group

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Eric,
I tried that but the image has no background color so changing the blending
doesn't change it's appearance (the underlying group just shows through).

Using a snapshot would work great if I could just find a way to change the
background color of the resulting image but there doesn't appear to be a
way to do that.


Pete
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Eric Corbett <eric at canelasoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I guess I assumed when you said you were using an image to block controls
> that the image was of the group.
>
> Can you take a snapshot of the group and then use that image as the
> disabled looking "group" by blending it and hide the real group?
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I have a stack with a series of groups on it.  I need to control the
> order
> > in which data is entered into the groups.  The obvious/easy way is to
> > enable/disable the groups as needed but I'm not happy with the way groups
> > look when they are disabled.
> >
> > I vaguely remember a thread about using images to do this since clicks
> > within the image don't make it through to the underlying controls.  When
> I
> > tried this, clicks on buttons that were under the image did not trigger
> any
> > mouse events on them, as hoped, but field controls still get focus and I
> > can type into them.
> >
> > It seems like this isn't going to work so looking for other ways to
> achieve
> > this without having to go through every control in the group and
> adjusting
> > their properties to disable them.  Alternatively, is there a way to
> control
> > how a group looks when it is disabled?
> >
> > Pete
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