Drawing Functions > BkgGradientStartColor

[Not supported by the Community Edition]

Specifies the gradient start color. To make the gradient painted, the Background Mode must be set to a gradient mode.

property Color VPE.BkgGradientStartColor

read / write; runtime only; also supported by TVPEObject

Possible Values:

any of the "COLOR_xyz" constants described in Programmer's Manual

or ActiveX / VCL: any RGB value

or .NET: any member of the .NET Color structure

Default:

COLOR_WHITE (but the Transparent Background Mode is activated!)

Remarks:

Gradients do only work for rectangular objects like Boxes, Text, Ellipses etc. Gradients are not drawn in Pies and Polygons. If a gradient mode is selected, hatching for the same object is not possible.

Example:

ActiveX / VCL:

Doc.BkgMode = VBKG_GRD_LINE

Doc.BkgGradientStartColor = COLOR_BLUE

Doc.BkgGradientEndColor = COLOR_GREEN

Doc.PrintBox(1, 1, "Hello World!")

.NET:

Doc.BkgMode = BkgMode.GradientLine

Doc.BkgGradientStartColor = Color.Blue

Doc.BkgGradientEndColor = Color.Green

Doc.PrintBox(1, 1, "Hello World!")

Will draw the text "Hello World!" with a gradient running from blue to green in the background.