On 30/11/2007, at 5:18 AM, Joe Strout wrote:
> On Mac OS X, you can do this with a CurveShape. On other platforms,
> you'll need to use a picture with an appropriately translucent mask.
Expanding further on Joe's comment, that mask would be constructed by
drawing the same CurveShape into the Mask property of the picture,
with a 50% Gray colour.
(In case anyone less knowledgeable than Thomas is following this
thread).
I have an example up which has a slider to adjust transparency used
for masking, see the PrintMasking sample on
http://www.oofile.com.au/downloads.html#DownloadREALbasic
Andy Dent BSc MACS http://www.oofile.com.au/
OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on multiple platforms
REALbasic, C++, Python, Mac and Windows development and porting
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