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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: floerio on June 25, 2009, 04:06:24 pm

Title: Transparent Shapes?
Post by: floerio on June 25, 2009, 04:06:24 pm

Hi!

Is it possible to create shapes with a transparent background? I want to create a simple shape that depicts a frame (to group elements on a screen, like radio buttons). I need it as shape because I have to add some tagged values for documentation, therefore I can not take the EA boundary.

But every shape is filled with a definite color but this is what I want to prevent because I WANT to see the background of the groundlaying element.

Any idea?

Cheers,
Oliver

Title: Re: Transparent Shapes?
Post by: KP on June 25, 2009, 04:31:09 pm

You can do it in a shape script. By default, if you do something like this

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shape main
{
    rectangle(0,0,100,100);
}the rectangle is filled with the default fill colour and edged with the default border colour. If you want to change that behaviour, you can try one of the following:

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shape main
{
    startpath();
    rectangle(0,0,100,100);
    endpath();
    fillpath();
}The fillpath() command will fill the rectangle with the default fill colour but not draw the border.

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shape main
{
    startpath();
    rectangle(0,0,100,100);
    endpath();
    strokepath();
}The strokepath() command will draw the border with the default border colour but not fill the shape.

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shape main
{
    startpath();
    rectangle(0,0,100,100);
    endpath();
    fillandstrokepath();
}The fillandstrokepath() command will draw the border and fill the shape.

You want the strokepath() version.

Title: Re: Transparent Shapes?
Post by: floerio on June 25, 2009, 04:44:02 pm

Yepp! That did the trick :-)

Thanks for the fast reply!

Oliver