Alpha channel in viewport?

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi
I tried to use a mapping with an alpha channel. How can I activate the alpha in the viewport? If I use the regular type “Game”-“Blender multitexture Materials” the alpha does not appear. If I change the display type to “Blender GLSL Materials” it works.
Is that normal? Nothing mentioned like this in the blender wiki
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_Dokumentation/_Tutorials/_Texturen/_AlphaTransp

Thanks in advance
Hilmar

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You can view it in the viewport only when the Texture Mode is active. You cannot view it in the Object or Edit mode or for that matter any other mode except for Texture Mode