Pseudo shading

[Greg Hains]

Hi.

 

I am looking to "grey out" a screen as I bring up a custom dialogue box. I have tried to achieve this by having a dummy field covering the whole screen that is normally transparent (no fill), upon opening the custom dialogue box, I set the fill (through conditional formatting) to be 50% grey. For the most part it works, but what happens is that on the main screen is a tab control box, and this seems impervious to this method - even when the dummy field is brought to the front.

 

Can anybody offer an explanation, a fix, or an alternative method to achieve this? It's purely aesthetic.

 

Thanks,

Greg

 

 

[rivet]

here is a possible alternative. Similar to Apples Launchpad which blurs the layout/background. I figure the blur offers a bit of a cheat since the data is not recognizable

http://db.tt/BLiEFS7w

 

[Greg Hains]

Thanks Rivet.  

I see what you've done, and as its blurred and not accessible then it doesn't matter if it cant be seen, but if the layout of the original screen is quite different, then I would need to make blurred screens for most things.

Thanks for the solution - its a good approach.

Cheers,

Greg