For automation interface information about the Fill Color property (Fill Color, Fill Hollow and Fill Hollow Set through the automation interface), see the automation interface topic for Symbol Style in the Related Topics.

This property specifies the Fill Color for an item.

The Fill property applies to only to Packages on Class Diagrams; Sequential States and Concurrent States on a State Diagrams; and Classes, Data Types, Interfaces, Signals, Parts and Ports on a Composite Structure Diagrams.

By default, the Fill Color is set to Default Color Used.

This Property is set through the Style Modification dialog, which you open through the Edit button on the following tabs or dialogs:

On the Style Modification dialog, click the appropriate Select button, and then click the required color. To unset this property, click Select, and then click Delete.

When the style settings are applied to a diagram symbol, this property specifies the fill color of the symbol. The fill color of the following Package symbol is red.

You can apply a style setting to a symbol through the symbol, through the symbol's item, or through an applied Stereotype.

Note that transparent fills will, for readability, appear as opaque-white when output to a WMF format metafile, for example, when generated by Publisher or pasted to a Word document.

The following section provides information about the items and diagrams for which Fill Color is a property. For more information about an item or diagram, click it.

Most items, diagrams and symbols.