--- Michael Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 14:08, Jack Chen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can anyone tell me how people make those windows semi-transparent? > Is > > it done in gtk or in the specific window manager? > > Until the compositing extensions are defined and available in X11, > there > is no real way to make windows semi-transparent. > > The semi-transparent windows and effects you have seen under X11 to > this > date (on XFree86 anyway) are horrible hacks that look bad and don't > work > well. Essentially what you would do is take a picture of what's > underneath your window, and then make your window have the same > picture, > only blended with your window's contents. As you can see this is a > terrible way to do transparency as it cannot reflect any animation or > things underneath your window. In many cases, all you get is a > semitransparent view of the root window. > > See http://www.freedesktop.org to see how the new true transparency > technologies are coming along. What's being developed are mechanism > for > doing true transparency (that can be controlled at the widget or > window > manager level) and allows all sorts of OS X -style effects to happen. > > > Michael > Thank you. I will check it out. But do you already know a way to do it with gtk? I just want the popup menu to be transparent, and my application won't have animation while the menu is popped up. Thanks. Jack ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
