Fade out panel contents / translucent overlay?

[ehartwell]

I have a KryptonPanel on my KryptonForm containing several status controls, including text, progress bar, and picturebox data. I want to fade out the entire panel at certain times to show it's out of date.

Obviously I could cycle through each control and change the foreground colors and images, but that's a lot of work - and bug-prone.

In WPF you can put the controls in a grid and set the grid's opacity to 30%, which makes the control contents semi-transparent. I found you can get a similar effect in WinForms with a translucent panel overlay. But this doesn't cooperate with the Krypton rendering engine, so all I see is the background.

Is there an easy way to fade or partially hide a container with the Krypton Toolkit?

[Phil Wright]

I assume you are placing the translucent panel over the original panel. Can you post an image of how it looks as I would have thought it would work.