Designer propetries not accesible from code

[galimpic]

I'm not sure it this should be a feature request, for now it is only a question... Is there a special reason why many views' properties are not available from within code? For instance, trying to read/set panel1.Alpha or label1.Parent raises a compile error. Some properties are there, some are not.

 

[Erel]

Parent and Alpha are not real properties of the view.
You can change the view's color with Color:

Button1.Color = Colors.ARGB(..)

The way to change a parent is by first removing the view from its current parent by calling View.RemoveView and then add the view to the new parent: Panel.AddView(...).

 

[MrKim]

The Problem I have with ARGB is if I just want to change the Alpha for a view I don't have the RGB colors. It would be nice if those were available or there were an Alpha only function.

 

[eps]

Surely you have to read the RGB values first, then pump these in to ARGB and set A..

 

[MrKim]

How do I read the RGB values of views created in Designer?

 

[Erel]

This is an old thread. You should have started a new thread for this question.

There is no simple way to get the view color. In most cases the background is not a simple color but rather a more complicate Drawable object.

 

[MrKim]

Thanks Erel