How can I draw TRANSPARENT polygon on Bitmap.Canvas using
Bitmap.Canvas.Polygon( array_of_points );
I want polygon to be drawn with red line borders and filled with gray color,
but the image below should be visible through that gray surface.

Is that possible?

Hi Davor,

You will find a good example at http://www.geocities.com/den_alex . Check for
the Graphics32 components ( specially the Polygon_Ex  example).

Good luck!

Pierre

Davor Pleskina a crit:

"Davor Pleskina" <davor.plesk...@ri.tel.hr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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As Pierre told already, you can get it done with my library. It is not
Bitmap.Canvas however. But if you need to do it with Bitmap.Canvas,
you may alternatively create a copy of your bitmap, draw an opaque
polygon on one of the bitmaps, and finally blend two bitmaps together.

Actually, thanks, but you did not understand; when I would like to use any
special components, it would not be a problem! Unfortunately, this must be
done "manualy", which means on any normal Canvas, using any normal Windows
or Delphi functions.

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It would not help, please take a look at my answer to Pierre's post...

"Davor Pleskina" <davor.plesk...@ri.tel.hr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Well, the solution I have posted in my previous message would work for
most canvases.

If you are ok with that fact your software will not work under Win95
and NT4, you can use AlphaBlt function from msimg32.dll, which will
blend image from one canvas to another with given transparency (I
don't remember already, but it might even work with device dependent
bitmaps directly).

But if you want better compatibility, you can always BitBlt everything
you need to DDB's and blend them together. As long as your canvas
normally supports BitBlt into device dependent bitmaps and back, I
don't see any problems.