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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Initial shape color set to transparent Apr 18^th, 2006 at 10:45am	Print Post
	Hi, It possible to set a (for example) a box to transparent using Box.Transparent. Is this possible when the user is dragging the mouse to create the box? I.e. to have it allready transparent, and not filled with FillColor1?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #1 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 11:07am	Print Post
	Hi, Currently that's not possible. You could get something close to that by setting flowchart.BoxFillColorAlpha to 0. The box frame lines will still be visible while drawing with the mouse, then in the BoxCreated event you can set Treansparent = true to hide them too. Stoyan


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #2 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 11:31am	Print Post
	I thought of the same thing just 20 minutes ago Works great though. It would be even more great if I could show a picture inside the dragged box with the PicturePos allready doing its thing. So if a user is dragging a certain item he/she can allready identify it visually.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #3 - Apr 18^th, 2006 at 1:18pm	Print Post
	yes, I guess we can add a default-value property for Box.Picture so you can change it when users select a different tool.


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #4 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 5:50am	Print Post
	That would be really great. Do you have any idea when this and the group-image-and-box-for-visio features will be implemented? I ask because I am planning to purchase FlowChartX Pro somewere this week, and would like to use these quite fast.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #5 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 6:07am	Print Post
	BoxPicture should be ready in a couple of days. And the Visio export stuff will take a week or two.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #6 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 6:44am	Print Post
	As for exporting rotated pictures - this works fine here. Could you email us a FlowChartX diagram file that shows the problem ? Thanks


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #7 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 7:01am	Print Post
	Its not so much exporting rotated pictures. When the flowchart is set to bsShape as BoxStyle, and a box is created with a picture loaded inside it, rotating the box (in the flowchart) will not rotate the picture. I use Box.PicturePos = picFit, dont know if it matters.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #8 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 8:44am	Print Post
	I see - you must enable the box.RotateContents property to have the picture rotate too.


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #9 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 9:01am	Print Post
	Wow.. that did it Didnt see that property. This control really has everything one could think of!


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #10 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 9:50am	Print Post
	8)


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #11 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 11:21am	Print Post
	When I receive my registered version, is there an easy way to update the existing DLL? Since I dont want to replace the actual control on my form and re-setting all properties I have changed. Can I assume registering the DLL in Windows, and extracting the new type library so I can repackage the control in Delphi 2005 would be enough?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #12 - Apr 19^th, 2006 at 3:48pm	Print Post
	Overwriting the dll should be enough if you are now using the evaluation version of the same edition.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #13 - Apr 21^st, 2006 at 7:48am	Print Post
	This version adds BoxPicture and BoxPicturePos properties to the FlowChart class: https://mindfusion.org/_temp/FlowChartPro.zip When a user starts drawing a box, they are assigned to the box.Picture and box.PicturePos. Stoyan


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Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36 Joined: Apr 14^th, 2006	Re: Initial shape color set to transparent Reply #14 - Apr 21^st, 2006 at 10:11am	Print Post
	What exactly does this do? Because when I start creating (dragging the edge) a new box, there is no picture inside it, and I do have BoxPicture set to a certain bitmap image.


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