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[cpjamloki]

How to reduce Opacity of image in roScreen in case of Legacy Device( version 3.0).?

Is there any way to reduce opacity of an image in roscreen in case of legacy device?

[cpjamloki]

please please reply . any reply would be helpful for me.

[TheEndless]

You can't. Legacy devices don't support alpha for any of the Draw functions. If you're drawing it over a solid background, you could draw a rect over it with alpha to give it the appearance of transparency, but if you're trying to alpha blend it onto another image, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

[Komag]

Drawing alpha rectangles over the top of images works as a decent trick but it really chews through performance for anything bigger than small on those slow as sap classic models.

[NewManLiving]

Not quite sure what you are actually doing but to get around sone of the alpha issues of the lower models (although current models ) i use get deviceinfo to determine what device is loading my program, and then use this information globally to set function pointers to use the correct methods or download bitmaps that were intentionally blended to give the same look and feel as methods that do their own alpha blending on the higher models. Having a framework that uses aa as objects lends itself nicely to this. This way I can support the strengths and weaknesses of the various models with one channel

[cpjamloki]

thanx guys for sharing your views.

[cpjamloki]

hi komag as you say

Drawing alpha rectangles over the top of images works as a decent trick

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but it is only for transparent RGBA color on top of image.

i want to show image(which should be transparent ) on top of static image.

[Komag]

Then it sounds like you might have to either abandon the idea or abandon supporting legacy Rokus 😞

[cpjamloki]

yes komag. 😞

[squirreltown]

"Komag" wrote:
Then it sounds like you might have to either abandon the idea or abandon supporting legacy Rokus 😞

Looks like the decision was just made for you, check your developer email. Legacy no mo.