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Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Screen designer tips and tutorials => Topic started by: Yorkshire Pudding on June 12, 2019, 09:20:59 PM

Title: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Yorkshire Pudding on June 12, 2019, 09:20:59 PM

Hi All,

I have made some LED buttons in Real Draw and exported them as PNG's with transparency, in Machscreen they look good with a clear background but when I load the screen into Mach3 I get a black background not the transparency.

Can you give me any idea what I may have done wrong.

Thanks
YP

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: ger21 on June 12, 2019, 10:02:04 PM

Can you upload the files?
Usually, a black background means the order is not correct. Maybe the LED on top of the button?
You need a 100% transparent image for the button. The LED doesn't need any transparency. Button on top.

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: TPS on June 13, 2019, 02:09:08 PM

or use a tranparent button

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Yorkshire Pudding on June 16, 2019, 02:17:44 PM

Thanks for the help so far but I need a bit more.  I have the LED issue sorted but no matter what I do I can not get the toolpath window on top of the background image.

The background image is on page 0 and the toolpath is on page 3 and is hidden behind the background.  I have tried in Screen4 to move the images to back and had it in Machscreen but nothing seems to work.

Any help much received.

Thanks
YP

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Klaus1311 on June 16, 2019, 02:39:39 PM

Hi YP

with MachScreen make sure "Multiple selection" is checked (second icon from the right in the toolbar. If you hit the led, a window opens up showing the components in the current order. Change order by tragging the LED up or down to your desired order.

Klaus

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Yorkshire Pudding on June 16, 2019, 02:56:12 PM

Hi Klaus,

thank you for the reply, I have the LED sorted.

My problem now is how do I select the global background image and the tool path on page 3 to make the toolpath come to the front?

Thanks,
YP

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: ger21 on June 16, 2019, 09:53:07 PM

I believe that anything on Page 0 will always be on top?

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Yorkshire Pudding on June 17, 2019, 05:50:28 AM

Thank you Klaus for the PM and getting me sorted.

Title: Re: LED not showing with transparency
Post by: Klaus1311 on June 17, 2019, 07:40:54 AM

Hi ger21

you are right, with the exception images on page 0 stay in background

Klaus