Does Expression Blend have a crop / crop concept?

Question

I am rearranging the graphics on the left as the graphics on the right in Expression Blend.

Gradient brushes are great for creating reflection effects, but now how to crop the button right now so that it cuts off the rest of the reflective circle?

I can rotate, scale, skew, repeat and flip , but I cannot find cropping or cropping.

And when I select both the top and the bottom to do “ merge / cross ”, all the options are grayed out when I choose “combine”.

Does the way I want here crop in Expression Blend, or am I reaching the limits of what basic XAML can represent?

Or is there an easier way to get the graphics on the left?

alt text http://tanguay.info/web/external/trimInBlend.png

Answer 1

Have you tried using a clipping path?

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/01/21/clip-path-editing-and-animating-in-blend-2.aspx

Answer 2

I would apply a gradient on the chart on the right and make it transparent. Thus, you do not need to trim anything.