StaticImage Image Alpha (Independent of Window Alpha)

[daves]

Is it possible to set the Alpha of the Image displayed within a StaticImage window, independent of the window alpha? In particular I want to make sure that the Frame visual element is not impacted by my alpha setting. Currently the Frame is impacted by the window alpha.

I do see that there is a property called ImageColours... Not sure what this property does since the image colors are really drawn from the image itself.

Thanks in advance.

[daves]

We just saw the problem in windowed mode, and indeed the surrounding windows environment was fine. Let me describe one more peculiar behaviour. Our system uses both Ogre and Cegui. We have a simple "cegui-based control panel" that shows at the top of our application .. and then we have the main scene. When this problem occurs we see the following:
1] the gui simply dissappears (cant see any of the cegui controls, but can interact with them - as i said we are able to click on buttons and the buttons result in callbacks being invoked .. tested this yet again with logout buttons)
2] the scene itself is basically there, but it changes color (sort of a washed out red mostly), and it is non-responsive to our hotkey pan/zoom controls

We'll post before/after screenshots.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

For the first post, the ImageColours property is IIRC a colour rect type property that allows you to set the colour, including alpha, of each corner of the image (the property value is of the form: "tl:aarrggbb tr:aarrggbb bl:aarrggbb br:aarrggbb" - these colours are modulative (so you can't for example turn a red image green!).

I'm not certain I understand what's happening in the second post

CE.

[daves]

heh.. that second post was supposed to go on the ogre forum... i was confused.. sorry!

[CrazyEddie]

i was confused.. sorry!

Heh, me too!