In InfoMaker 11.5, you can enhance the appearance of reports with gradients, transparency settings, and pictures. New properties, including Brushmode and Picture, allow you to change the appearance of the background for a report. Using these properties gives your applications a modern look and feel. You can use the Brushmode property to create background gradient effects that give the report more visual interest.
Gradients display transitions from one color to another. Using the Brushmode property, you can choose from several different styles of gradient effects (horizontal, vertical, angled, radial) and then set other properties to customize the appearance of the gradient and transitions. If you choose to use a picture, then you could use Picture property settings to determine the appearance of the picture—whether you want to keep it in its original size, stretch it to fit the report, or tile it in any way inside the report. You can adjust the transparency settings for colors and pictures.
For more information on the new report display properties, see the online Help for the following items:
Brushmode.property
Picture.property
Gradient.property
Transparency
