Color.FromArbg

[UJ]

What is the 'alpha' part of the color? All the documentation seems to say
the alpha field is the alpha value.

So what's the alpha value.

TIA - Jeff.

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

UJ,

Alpha is the transparency of the color. 255 is fully opaque where 0 is fully
transparent.

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Stoitcho Goutsev (100)

"UJ" <fr**@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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What is the 'alpha' part of the color? All the documentation seems to say
the alpha field is the alpha value.

So what's the alpha value.

TIA - Jeff.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Stoitcho Goutsev (100) <10*@100.com> wrote:

Alpha is the transparency of the color. 255 is fully opaque where 0 is fully
transparent.

I've always thought this is slightly odd - surely it should be called
its opacity if the higher the number is, the *less* transparent it is.

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[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Well, you might be right. This is the term I'm used to though. Opacity or
transparency the end result is the same - it controls color's translucency
:)

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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) <10*@100.com> wrote:

Alpha is the transparency of the color. 255 is fully opaque where 0 is
fully
transparent.

I've always thought this is slightly odd - surely it should be called
its opacity if the higher the number is, the *less* transparent it is.

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[Lucian Wischik]

"Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)" <10*@100.com> wrote:

Well, you might be right. This is the term I'm used to though. Opacity or
transparency the end result is the same - it controls color's translucency
:)

"translucent" means that it lets light through, but diffusing it so
that the things behind are no longer clearly visible.

So Alpha doesn't control translucency at all -- it merely controls
transparency.

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