Agentry - WPF Background Image

I am using the Agentry WPF client v7 with SMP3. I am also using the Agentry editor v7 to develop the application. I am trying to add a background image to a detail screen for the WPF client. I have targeted the Windows 1024x768 platform and selected the appropriate background image. The screen appears correctly in the screen preview in the Agentry editor. However, when I run the app in the Agentry WPF client the background shows up as all white and the background image does not display. Can anyone think of what I could be doing wrong?

You aren't doing anything wrong, it is just that the WPF client does not yet support background images. That feature just hasn't been implemented yet on the WPF client.
Sorry,
--Bill

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Fx6.0 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

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With DreamweaverCS4 version 10.0 Build 4117, (italian language) I have tried to add a Spry MenuBar to the one website page.
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But in the Preview Window of InternetExplorer 7 I have this strange behavior:
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3) Should I also apply the property: "background-color:transparent"? Where? What is the specific CSS Style Rule?
I have uploaded my little local WebSite to Rapidshare (100KB):
http://rapidshare.com/files/370735082/Test_Spry.zip.html
Please download it to inspect my problem.
Please response me!
Horsepower0171.

For a starter, you should not put your background style rules in the following. The accompanying descriptions will tell you this.
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this will be overridden by the following rules. They replace your image with an arrow image.
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
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There are one of two solutions
If you do not want and arrow, simply set background to none in the above four instances.
If you do want an arrow, include a down arrow image in a second Menu_Button_01.gif image called Menu_Button_01_DownArrow.gif or similar as well as a third one for your right arrow image.
I hope this helps.
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