transparence transparency colour transparency Nicole Scholz How can I make the colour of a shape transparent?

In this example the colour of 2 rectangles are set transparence by setting the FillTransparence.

/* Retrieve the Desktop object, we need its XComponentLoader interface to load a new document */ oDesktop = UNO.createDesktop() -- get the UNO Desktop service object xComponentLoader = oDesktop~{%see com.sun.star.frame.XDesktop%XDesktop}~{%see com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader%XComponentLoader} -- get componentLoader interface /* open the blank file */ url = "private:factory/sdraw" xDrawComponent = xComponentLoader~loadComponentFromURL(url, "_blank", 0, - .UNO~noProps) /* need document's factory to be able to insert created objects */ xDocumentFactory = xDrawComponent~{%see com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory%XMultiServiceFactory} /* get draw page by index */ xDrawPage = xDrawComponent~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XDrawPagesSupplier%XDrawPagesSupplier}~getDrawPages~getByIndex(0)~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XDrawPage%XDrawPage} /* draw a rectangle */ xrectangle1 = xDocumentFactory~createInstance("{%see com.sun.star.drawing.RectangleShape}")~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XShape%xshape} xrectangle1~setPosition(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Point}", 1000, 1000)) xrectangle1~setSize(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Size}", 5000, 5000)) xDrawPage~add(xrectangle1) -- adds the rectangle to the draw document /* colour the rectangle black solid */ xShapeProps1 = xrectangle1~{%see com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet%XPropertySet} xShapeProps1~setPropertyValue("FillColor", box("int", "000000"x ~c2d)) -- set fill colour black xShapeProps1~setPropertyValue("LineColor", box("int", "ff 00 ff"x ~c2d)) -- set line colour pink /* draw a rectangle */ xrectangle2 = xDocumentFactory~createInstance("{%see com.sun.star.drawing.RectangleShape}")~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XShape%xshape} xrectangle2~setPosition(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Point}", 1000, 6000)) xrectangle2~setSize(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Size}", 5000, 5000)) xDrawPage~add(xrectangle2) -- adds the rectangle to the draw document /* colour the rectangle black solid */ xShapeProps2 = xrectangle2~{%see com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet%XPropertySet} xShapeProps2~setPropertyValue("FillColor", box("int", "000000"x ~c2d)) -- set fill colour black xShapeProps2~setPropertyValue("LineColor", box("int", "ff 00 ff"x ~c2d)) -- set line colour pink call syssleep 1 xShapeProps1~setPropertyvalue("FillTransparence", box("int", "50")) -- set transparence 50 percent call syssleep 1 xShapeProps2~setPropertyvalue("FillTransparence", box("int", "90")) -- set transparence 90 percent ::requires UNO.cls -- get UNO support