[Mono-winforms-list] transparency on a window

[jp.gouineau at cadden.fr]

Hello,

Thanks  a lot for your quick answer !
Ok, I understand now :)

Jean-Pierre



Selon Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com>:

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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