Re: [rox-devel] Transparent pinboard text, Autosizing filer windows

[Thomas L. <ta...@le...>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Garrett C wrote:

> > And how about transparent icons when dragging, like under RISC OS?
> 
> Yes. And an option to change the level of translucency wold be good too.

OK, before people get too excited about transparency, I'd like to point
out that... it's impossible :-(

aterm and friends work by getting the root window pattern and using that
for their own background. Or, sometimes, by taking a screenshot and using
that. Neither work if things change underneath the transparent window...

And, since the point of transparent icon drags is to allow you to see
what's going on under the icon (eg, exactly where some text will get
inserted), that's not much use.

The best approximation we can do is to use a stipple pattern over the mask
to get a poor sort of 50% transparency (like NewerLook does). This could
work, but it won't look so good. Make it an option?


Thomas Leonard
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