How to set TPanel transparent?

Question

When placing the TPanel component in designer, it seems it can not be made transparent? There's an opacity option, but that only deails with animations. I want the panel itself to be fully transparent, so I can see the image underneath. (I want to use the panel as a way of control layout of the controls placed on it)

Answer 1

Use TLayout or TRectangle instead of TPanel.

Answer 2

You can use almost any object opacity for that, for example:

Panel1->Opacity=0.5;