[Lazarus] Transparent panel

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:49:11 +0100
JoshyFun <joshyfun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Lazarus-List,
> 
> Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:27:26 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MG> You can reparent anytime, but some settings depend on the parent. For
> MG> example Align, anchor to parent, ParentFont, ParentBIDI, ....
> >> Something like extract controls from TPanel (at runtime) and insert
> >> them in the parent of the TPanel ? Thinking a bit more on this, this
> >> way we will lost the autoarrange facilities and maybe more things.
> MG> What exactly do you want to achieve?
> 
> My intention is to have a "mouse click" transparent control to group
> controls given them the feeling that they are not put in a panel, and
> of course see the background. So something like an invisible TPanel
> where I can bound the controls to the invisible dimensions, font, etc.
> Something that do not accept clicks, nor focus and does not perform
> any kind of draw, a pure container.

Many IDE dialogs use panels that you can not see.
They don't need to be transparent for that, just use no borders.


Mattias