background image, help

[Ivan Benttini]

Hi everyone,
How do I make a background picture image avoid from being "TILE" and takes a
"Stretch" format,
when being use as:

background = "filename open book2.jpg" //beige2.jpg" my solid
one

My goal is for the open book2.jpg be the background of my form when it
opens.
Even if I make my open book2.jpg image the same size of my form, it still
shows as "TILE",
when my form opens.
Any ideas? any Help?
Ivan

[Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]]

Post by Ivan Benttini
Hi everyone,
How do I make a background picture image avoid from being "TILE" and takes a
"Stretch" format,
background = "filename open book2.jpg" //beige2.jpg" my solid
one
My goal is for the open book2.jpg be the background of my form when it
opens.
Even if I make my open book2.jpg image the same size of my form, it still
shows as "TILE",
when my form opens.
Any ideas? any Help?
Ivan

Ivan,

Put an IMAGE on the FORM and then you will have perfect control. The
FORM.background is designed to "tile" things automatically and there is
no way to control it.

[Ivan Benttini]

Geoff,
Nice to hear from you,
I had tried your recommendation before but, and works fine except for the
fact
that when applied text labels or just text, even by setting the object to
transparency
it does not work, will keep the form background, when I was expecting the
background
of the book where the labels and entryfields reside.
The form is the open book (the image of the book with it's own background
color)
and I thought by place a text label and an entryfield (transparent) on the
top of
the image (the book) my text labels would inherited the background color of
the book,
but it did not. What you think? I must need some thing else, don't I?
Can you spare the time for more recommendations?
Ivan

Post by Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]

Post by Ivan Benttini
Hi everyone,
How do I make a background picture image avoid from being "TILE" and takes a
"Stretch" format,
background = "filename open book2.jpg" //beige2.jpg" my solid
one
My goal is for the open book2.jpg be the background of my form when it
opens.
Even if I make my open book2.jpg image the same size of my form, it still
shows as "TILE",
when my form opens.
Any ideas? any Help?
Ivan

Ivan,
Put an IMAGE on the FORM and then you will have perfect control. The
FORM.background is designed to "tile" things automatically and there is
no way to control it.
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[Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]]

Post by Ivan Benttini
Geoff,
Nice to hear from you,
I had tried your recommendation before but, and works fine except for the
fact
that when applied text labels or just text, even by setting the object to
transparency
it does not work, will keep the form background, when I was expecting the
background
of the book where the labels and entryfields reside.
The form is the open book (the image of the book with it's own background
color)
and I thought by place a text label and an entryfield (transparent) on the
top of
the image (the book) my text labels would inherited the background color of
the book,
but it did not. What you think? I must need some thing else, don't I?
Can you spare the time for more recommendations?
Ivan

Ivan,

In the dUFLP, checkout the desktopImage.zip. You can find the dUFLP
here:


http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/