Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #262: Background Images for Frames

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

On 02/04/2006, at 10:29, Jeff Hobbs wrote:

> Joe English wrote:
>> Eric Taylor wrote:
>>>  TIP #262: BACKGROUND IMAGES FOR FRAMES
>>> [...]
>>>  This TIP proposes an option for frames that allows users to set the
>>>  background of the window to be an image.
>
>> (A "-transparent" option has been mentioned in subsequent
>> discussions, but nobody has yet proposed how such a thing might be
>> implemented.)
>
> I know how to do it for Windows, but not other platforms.  :/

If we modernized the TkAqua drawing code to be HIView based (which  
we'll have to do eventually as the APIs we use now are deprecated),  
this will be easy for TkAqua as well (transparent backgrounds is in  
fact the default with modern aqua widget APIs...)

Cheers,

Daniel

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** Daniel A. Steffen        Dept. of Mathematics  **
** Macquarie University     NSW 2109 Australia    **