Question

I want to make it so my pen can be a highlighter, so basically changing its opacity, but i don’t know how to do this. I currently use a colordialog to allow the use to choose desired colour but this only allows me have colours which aren’t transparent enough to see through it like a highlighter tool on powerpoint as an example of the tool opacity. So any code to allow me to integrate the use of my colordialog with a opacity to be able to see through it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Something like this:

Color baseColor = Color.Red;  // Or whatever, from the color picker
Color highlighter = Color.FromArgb(128, baseColor);

The first argument to FromArgb, is the ‘alpha’, or opacity, on a scale from 0 (completely transparent) to 255 (completely opaque), so 128 is 50%.