Transparent text backgrounds

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Qweeg(Posted 2006) [#1]
I have a GUI panel which has a pixmap to give it a textured effect. Is there any way of getting text onto it without it looking like it is in a box? I thought I could use a label with no frame, but this uses the color of the window as it's background - so it would appear how I want it as text only (no box) if there wasn't a pixmap on the panel.


Brucey(Posted 2006) [#2]
The functionality you are looking for will work on both Linux and Mac platforms, but not win32 unfortunately.

This is a known feature of win32 controls in max :-)


Qweeg(Posted 2006) [#3]
Thanks for the info Brucey (maybe i'll upgrade to a mac - the new power book pro's look pretty neat). I think I can produce this effect using canvases instead of panels and then just using the DrawText instead of labels.