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Control does not support transparent back ground colors

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I receive the error in photo-1 every time I Load ADE. The transparent opening progress bar is at the Display point when the error comes up. If I click on OK on the error box the main page opens as a locked to front window. From there a variety of bad things occur which are a result but probably not relevant to the cause. No other airport desing program was involved. I used ADE over a period of two days on the project. There are several transparent polygons in the project.

I cleared the log and started ADE 1.30, it failed, and the attached log is from that event.

ADE check report also attached.
 

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Dick

OK this is a bug with an easy work around. Somewhere along the line you have made the background color for ADE partially transparent. This is causing the crash and I have replicated it. Apparently you are the first person that has done this - knowingly or otherwise :)

To fix it open the colors.dat file in Notepad. The first line is called ADE_DISPLAY_BACKGROUND. Make sure that the first number is 255. Save it and run ADE again - you should be fine. I will add some code to stop users changing the transparency of this setting
 
WORKED. No idea how that was changed but given the loose controls in Windows almost anything could have done it.

Pert of the original color DAT was:

ADE_DISPLAY_BACKGROUND,51,235,255,219
ADE_SELECTED_ITEM,205,255,202,0
ADE_LOCKED_ITEM,200,255,153,151
LINK_CLOSED,255,255,0,0
LINK_PARKING,255,0,255,0
LINK_PATH,252,0,255,0

Thanks,
Dick near Pittsburgh, PA.

PS: Luis Sa seems to have drifted away from Sbuilder so glad to see you are developing in a similar direction...
 
Another small mystery of life :) I will add the code to make sure that background color cannot have a transparency set other than 255
 
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