[Mono-winforms-list] transparency on a window

[Rafael Teixeira]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

What Miguel said is that Gtk/KDE/WinForms/...,  all of them, depend on
the X-Server and its installed extensions, and some other libraries
and also on hardware support (to have acceptable performance) so that
transparency works. You can code your program to have transparent
windows and when run on a FC3 machine like mine it won't have any
transparency.

It is kind of doing windows with transparent regions, or
non-retangular format, in windows, it will only work right in
Win200/WinXP/Win2003, but will look terrible in Win98/Win95 if it
works at all.

Did you understand?

:)

On 6/29/05, jp.gouineau at cadden.fr <jp.gouineau at cadden.fr> wrote:
> Selon Miguel de Icaza <miguel at ximian.com>:
> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> > Eventually it will be supported, it is not very hard, but it will
> > require major upgrades to your windowing system.
> 
> Do you mean that is is not possible to have any transparent window under Linux
> at all, even using Gtk ?!
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Is there a solution to implement transparency on a window ? I know that
> > this
> > > functionnality is not yet fully supported with System.Windows.Forms, but is
> > it
> > > possible with Gtk# ? And if yes, please could you show me were can I find
> > > information or sample code about this ?
> >
> > Eventually it will be supported, it is not very hard, but it will
> > require major upgrades to your windowing system.
> >
> > So do not expect this to work on the short-term.  In the medium-term (6
> > months from now) most Linux distributions will have all the components
> > in place to make this happen out of the box.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
> _______________________________________________
> Mono-winforms-list maillist  -  Mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
> 


-- 
Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
---------------------------------------
I'm trying to become a "Rosh Gadol" before my own eyes. 
See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/12/06.html for enlightment.
It hurts!