Fade in/Fade out Class for any object

[eLancaster]

I want to start working on a class that can take in any object and fade it in and fade it out. An outline would be

public class Fade{
 public void FadeIn(Object O)
{
//code
}
 public void FadeOut(Object O)
{
//code
}

}

Is this possible?
Could someone give me an idea on how to fade objects in and out.

[ozzyman]

I think I know how to do this with Colors, something like this:

set the object to Opaque,
set the background colour,
set a timer to alter the opacity of the background colour over a fixed period of time

for example, over 5 seconds the opacity changes from 0% to 100%.

to set a color with opacity just do this:
Color red50 = new Color(255,0,0,127);

where '127' is the alpha value giving the colour 50% opacity.

[doWhile]

take in any object and fade it in and fade it out

Fade in/out what element(s) of that object? Do you mean fade in the sense of drawing it in a user interface? Object contains no methods related to 'fading', so the question doesn't make much sense (at least to me).

[ozzyman]

I think he means that he wants to create some sort of Frame or displayable object, maybe a dialog, and when its shown fade all of its components in and out.