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The Background type defines the advanced characteristics of the element background. The characteristics of this background can be defined and changed using different WLanguage properties.
Remark: For more details on the declaration of this type of variable and the use of WLanguage properties, see Declaring a variable.
Example
// Draw a rectangle with blue borders, green background and rounded corners
// in an Image control
 
// Initializes the drawing in the Image control
dStartDrawing(IMG_Drawing)
 
Rect is Rectangle
Rect.X = 10
Rect.Y = 15
Rect.Width = 100
Rect.Height = 150
BorderStyle is Border
BorderStyle.Color = LightBlue
BorderStyle.Round = 30
BorderStyle.Thickness = 1
BackgroundStyle is Background
BackgroundStyle.Color = LightGreen
dBorder(Rect, BorderStyle, BackgroundStyle)
Remarks

Properties specific to Background variables

The following properties can be used to handle the background of an element:
Property nameType usedEffect
ColorColor variableBackground color.
GradientGradient of the background color:
  • ColorStart property (Color type): Start color of the gradient.
  • ColorEnd property (Color type): End color of the gradient.
  • Angle property (integer): Angle that will be used for the selection of colors in the gradient. The angle value is included between 0 (horizontal angle, default value) and 360°.
  • Color3 property (Color type): Color that will be used in the gradient.
  • DistanceColor3 property (integer): Percentage separating the start color from color 3.
  • Color4 property (Color type): Color that will be used in the gradient.
  • DistanceColor4 property (integer): Percentage separating the start color from color 4.
The color parameters are used as follows:
The angle is used to define the orientation of the gradient.
Gradients with 3 or 4 colors are only available for 0 or 90 degree angles.
Remarks:
  • On some systems (e.g., 256-color Remote Desktop Connection), gradients are not available. In this case, the color defined via the ColorStart property is used.
  • Gradient backgrounds are not supported in docx documents.
HatchInteger constantType of hatching used:
  • HatchNone: No hatching.
  • HatchCrossed: Criss-crossed hatching.
  • HatchCrossedDiagonal: Diagonal crossed hatching.
  • HatchDiagonal: Diagonal hatching at 60%.
  • HatchDiagonalBottom: Diagonal hatching at 120%.
  • HatchHorizontal: Horizontal hatching.
  • HatchVertical: Vertical hatching.
TypeInteger constantType of background:
  • BackgroundSolid: Solid background.
  • BackgroundTransparent: Transparent background (the Color property is ignored).
  • BackgroundHatched: Hatched background (the Hatch property is taken into account).
  • BackgroundGradient: Background with color gradient (the Gradient property is taken into account).

Functions that use Background variables

dBorderDraws the borders.
dRectangleDraws a rectangle:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
dRectangleGradientDraws a rectangle:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
dRoundedRectangleDraws a rounded rectangle:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
Minimum version required
  • Version 21
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