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Transparent S Meter
Simon Brown • January 4, 2020
Analog S meter transparency
Version 3.0.13 introduced analog S meters and resulted in requests for transparency. One of the big features of SDR Console is the use of Direct2D graphics which is a lot more complicated than the GDI/GDI+ used in many other ham radio programs such as Ham Radio Deluxe.
Working out transparency wasn't easy, finally a Microsoft example showed me how to do this. A day when you don't learn something is a day wasted.
Here's an example of transparency. This will be part of 3.0.14.
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