Hi,

I want my silverlight background to be transparent.

In my aspx page i am setting the background to be picture by using css property.

.body1{

background-image: url(../images/background/bg2.jpg);

margin:0;

    padding: 0px;

    height:100%;

    border:none;

    overflow: hidden;

}

I want my silverlight to have the same background as my page or to be transparent

but, I must to set the isWindowless: to 'false', because either way  i have display problems (on media center windows).

I tried to set the bakground by setting background:document.body.style.backgroundColor

and tried to set it transparent(and alpha colors) and it did not helped either.

Is there any way to set the silverlight background to be transparent and leave the isWindowless to be 'false'or maybe to set the background of silverlight to be picture too?

Thanks

You must set transparency to the Silverlight Control...depending on how you're hosting Silverlight it can be different.  For example, in the Silverlight ASP.NET control, you simply set the following properties of the control:

<asp:Silverlight ... PluginBackground="Transparent" Windowless="true" /> 

Note that Background will color hte background of hte generated <div> not of the control itself.

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Actually , i did not understand.

I am using silverlight 1.0 , Visual Studio 2005 and  i am using silverlight control like this(this is aspx page).

<div id="SilverlightControlHost" >

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

</div>

and this way i am creating silverlight

//var scene = new photoGallery.Page();

height: "330",

isWindowless: 'false',

version: "1.0"

onLoad: null

 is there anyway to set the transparency on div?

Thanks for the help,

Nagina

 not setting the div's color will always make it transparent, but since you have your SL's plugin color set to #459abf, then it will not be transparent, set the SL background:'transparent'

Greg
www.GJHDigital.com

I did it at the beginning, in this case the background becomes to black,only if i set the isWindowless ='true' i am recieving the transparent background , but the view is corrupted.

I agree with Greg, I've done this a hundred times and setting the Background: "Transparent" and the IsWindowless: "true" it should work.

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I ran into this same issue where I want the Silverlight plug-in to be transparent to show the HTML in the background, but when I set windowless to true, the entire app can't be displayed in Safari. (I'm running Safari on Windows, but the same thing happens on Safari on Mac as well).

Is there a work-around to set the windowless to true, but still have it work in Safari?

Thanks!

Jim @ imason

I don't use Safari so I don't know of any workaround.  I suspect this is a bug.  Does it happen on Safari 2 and 3?

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Yeah, probably is a bug. I've tried it with Safari 3 only..not sure about 2.

Hmm, that's strange. I have just tried on Mac OS X Tiger and windowless SL plugin renders properly both in Safari 3.0.4 and FF 2.0.0.14 there. Actually we have a regression test which covers this particular scenario (Runs routinely on Mac OS X Leopard / Tiger both in Safari and FF. Safari 3 on Windows is not officially supported yet, so we don't run our tests there).

Probably something is wrong with your app. Does it render properly in Windows browsers? IE / FF?

As far as I know, there are some known performance issues with windowless plugins with Beta1 bits, but besides performance there should be no functional differences from Windows.

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