Fade a Panel [RESOLVED]

[john tindell]

Is it possible to change the opacity on a Panel control. I have search but all i could find was about window forms.

Thanks

[wossname]

I have a quivk VB sample here... Havent got C# at home Shouldn't be hard to translate.

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
'timer event handler
        Static aa As Integer
 
        Panel1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(aa, 255, 0, 0)
        aa += 10 'amount of opacity change for each timer tick
 
        If aa > 255 Then Timer1.Enabled = False 'finished fade-in
 
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
 
        Timer1.Interval = 100 '10 times a second
        Timer1.Enabled = True 'go!
 
    End Sub

That should get you started. It simply uses a timer to increase the Alpha component of the panel's backcolor. Its a bit flickery but you could always use a backbuffer to solve that problem, if you can be bothered

[vasil7112]

Is it possible to do it somehow to work on a Transparent Panel? I want all the contents of the panel to fade away, not the panel itself

[JuggaloBrotha]

Is it possible to do it somehow to work on a Transparent Panel? I want all the contents of the panel to fade away, not the panel itself

Put a panel inside the panel would probably be the easiest way to do that.

[vasil7112]

Put a panel inside the panel would probably be the easiest way to do that.

Well here is my stracture
A panel with transparent BG that shows the BG of the template
Some buttons in the panel
And what i want now, is a code the will make all the buttons fade away, but only by typing a small code like fade a panel

[JuggaloBrotha]

So put those buttons on a panel that's on the other panel, that way you can fade the buttons only panel like you want.