# Transparent background bug

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 29, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081 "2012-02-29T08:12:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/1 "2012-02-29T08:12:41Z")

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there’s an annoying bug in tranparent areas rendering.  
i attached an example image of how should the rendering to be (left) and how it is drawn when clicked in both runtime mode and design mode (right): instead of drawing the component below, the renderer draws the window background ☹  
thanks  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/99ed32529951b742452db755e1ecc9f9386507fa.png)

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**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/2 "2012-04-04T13:57:20Z")

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i updated to 7.4 but i’m still with this bad bug… anything new?

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/3 "2012-04-04T18:32:15Z")

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This will be fixed for 7.4.2. Have you seen it on anything other than the date range component? This has to do with how Swing renders non-opaque components, and has to be done on a per-component basis.

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**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/4 "2012-04-05T07:09:38Z")

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yes i had! i can see the same on the radio buttons, checkboxes and labels components on which i set an alpha level different from 100%…

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/5 "2012-04-06T17:03:49Z")

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Oh I see what you did here. If you want to make a component see-through, you set the Opaque property to false.

The behavior you’re seeing happens if you have the Opaque property set to true, but a transparent background color. Un-check Opaque and you should be all set.

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**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transparent-background-bug/4081/6 "2012-04-07T09:40:32Z")

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good. maybe this should be written somewhere in the official documentation.  
thank you!