Re: how to set transparency to widgets?

[gege2061 <gege2061 redaction-developpez com>]

Hi,

It's possible with cairo : http://plan99.net/~mike/files/alphademo.c

Screenshot : http://gtk.developpez.com/faq/images/transparent.png

2008/3/30, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>:
>
>  On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 10:11 +0530, Harinandan S wrote:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I am looking at ways to make a window transparent and only some
>  > widgets on the window to be visible. I found
>  >
>  > gtk_window_set_opacity API but this API sets opacity to entire window
>  > but not to a widget.
>  >
>  > Is there any way I can make the window transparent and show only
>  > widgets?
>  >
>  > I am also looking at ways to show multiple windows and set appropriate
>  > transparency to widgets to get the
>  >
>  > desired widgets from each window on the screen.
>
>  the functionality you want basically does not exist in GTK at this time.
>  there are ways to fake parts of it, and get things close to what you are
>  thinking of, but i would suggest revisiting your ideas about GUI design.
>  GTK is not the toolkit to use if transparency and so forth is critical
>  to what you want to do. Keep in mind, though, that transparency has only
>  recently been part of the "conceptual toolkit" for GUIs, and its
>  perfectly possible to design highly functional, deeply usable interfaces
>  without it.
>
>  --p
>
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