[Previous][Main][Next]
Use Images for form backgrounds. Special image effects are masking and transparent modes. Try these looks to see what looks the best.
Use Images for backgrounds to enhance your screen display
To add an imagee to the current form, click on the Add Image button on the Displays tab of the toolbar. This will open up the Select Image Window. Three types of files may be opened by EvView: .bmp, .ico (icon), and .wmf files. Only these files will be displayed in the file selection boxes. Use a map image as the background of a screen, or any other image to graphically enhance your screens.
Image Properties
Display Left, Top, Width, Height, Style, Stretch, AutoSize, Image Masked
The masked option masks the bitmap image. The image cannot be stretched in this mode. Masked is effective for window backgrounds.
Image Transparent: The transparent option takes the color of the bottom left hand pixel, and makes that color transparent through the image.
Align The image can be set to align top, left, right, bottom or client. Client stretches the image across the entire form. Be sure to right click the image and send it to the back, so other components will show.
Select Image Window
The Select Image Window is opened when the Add Image button is clicked. Use the directory list to select the directory of the graphic file to be added. Four types of files may be opened: bitmap (*.bmp), icon (*.ico), enhanced window metafiles (*.emf), and windows metafiles (*.wmf). Only files with these extensions will show up in the file box. Click on a file to preview the image in the window on the right.
Directory list on left, bitmap images on right, click on image to use.
Copy an image into your form by selecting the image and then pressing Use Image button.
Options - the options box allows the user to preset some of the properties of the image.
Copy Image To - Click this button to copy the selected image file to another directory. This feature is helpful because all image files should be kept in the project directory. If you find an image to use elsewhere on the hard drive or on a floppy disk, use the Copy Image To button to copy it into the project directory. This button will open a standard Save As dialog where the file can be saved anywhere.
Use Image - Click this button when you have found and selected the image you want to use.
Cancel button- Click the cancel button to close the image window and to cancel the selection of an image.
Note: clicking on the Cancel button after copying files will not undo the files that have been copied.
Goto Editing Forms